Mental Health Nursing Topic 2022

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Running Head: Mental Health Nursing
Mental Health Nursing
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Institutional Affiliation

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Mental Health Nursing
MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
Introduction
Mental health nursing theories and even practices are meant to offer a solution to the
various patients who are undergoing some emotional or also mental health illness. Moreover, this
may include those who are experiencing depression, mood disorder, or even addiction. The
nurses are the most critical individuals when it comes to offering care for the various individuals,
families, or even communities, and this happens through education, counseling, or even
medication to promote emotional health.
Summary
Some of the discussion topics that my group went through include mental health
promotion and illness prevention. Moreover, this is set to offer various methods that can be used
when it comes to promoting mental health in any given institution. Furthermore, it also involves
coming up with multiple prevention methods that can be used against mental illness. The other
topic to be considered is on how mental health can be expanded and this is set to provide the
various means that mental health can employ to ensure that the mental health patients are offered
the best care at an affordable cost and as near as possible. The third posting that is set to be
considered is on recovery and even rehabilitation (Carson, 2015). Moreover, this helps people
with health problems to gain their emotional, social, or even physical skills that they may need to
live.
Discussion Entries
Mental health promotion and illness prevention

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Mental Health Nursing
According to research, it is estimated that a single person out of four is vulnerable to a
mental disorder at one particular time in life. The various measures that need to be put in place
when it comes to preventing mental illness includes applying the universal prevention which
involves targeting the whole population and this is major because the entire community is in a
position to be affected by the mental illness in one way or another hence there is need to reach
out to the whole population (Videbeck, 2015). Moreover, the other prevention measure is the
selective prevention which involves targeting specific people within the people who may be at
risk of developing the mental illness, and their chances are higher compared to the entire
population.
Applying the indicative prevention method is set to aim at the individuals who are at a
higher risk of getting a mental disorder. A treatment-related strategy can be kept in place to
ensure that the individuals who are developing mental illness are exposed to medication as early
as possible to minimize complications. The various methods employed in promoting mental
health include the mental health interventions in workplaces, and this includes embracing
multiple programs that are meant to manage stress. There is a need to come up with various
violence prevention programs together with the numerous programs that are aimed at vulnerable
groups or individuals (Varcarolis, 2016).
Reference List
Videbeck, S.L., 2015. Psychiatric-mental health nursing. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Varcarolis, E.M., Carson, V.B. and Shoemaker, N.C., 2016. Foundations of psychiatric mental
health nursing: A clinical approach. Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders.