Essentials of Mental Health Nursing

Essentials of mental Health Nursing

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................2
Therapeutic relationship.........................................................................................................2
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................3
Evidence base required to care for and support people with acute mental health condition..3
LO3..................................................................................................................................................6
Identify the wide range of mental health assessment strategies and tools which applicable
them in relevant practice settings...........................................................................................6
LO4..................................................................................................................................................7
Principle of risk assessment, risk management that reflect on the positive risk taking into
mental health care...................................................................................................................7
LO5..................................................................................................................................................9
Legal and Ethical issues while delivering and evaluating care..............................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
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INTRODUCTION
Mental health can be defined as a behavioural, cognitive as well as emotional well-being.
It is the way of thinking, behaving, responding and feeling. This present study is based on a case
of Kevin who is suffering from schizophrenic and type 1diabetes due to domestic violence. This
present study is going to show importance of therapeutic relation in the case of Kevin as how this
relation can improve his health. Further, it will show evidence based care planning relevant to
the case which includes: cognitive behavioural therapy, family based approach, Individualised
recovery focused plan approach and others which allow therapists to improve health of the
patient. It will also discuss mental health assessment strategies along with principles of risk
assessment which can help patient in improving his mental health. Lastly, it shows legal as well
as ethical issues which can occur while delivering healthcare so, it is important to focus on all
legal and codes of ethics.
MAIN BODY
LO 1
Therapeutic relationship
In the case of Kevin who is 27 year old man has severe schizophrenic and type 1
diabetes. Aggression, depression is one of the main problem through he is going. So, it is
important to provide better healthcare services to him. There are several steps by which the
patient can be treated in an efficient manner.
Therapeutic relationship: It is one of the main step of treating patient with having
severe mental health problems and depression. It refers a relation between healthcare provider
and the client or the patient. For providing better healthcare services it is important for therapists
and healthcare provider to make an effective relation with the client in order to make him believe
that all processes will be done for his better health Mössler & et.al. (2019). In the case of Kevin,
it is important to build a trust, respectful and caring agreement and relationship because his
problems of mental health are severe. It is also stated that the patient denies taking insulin at the
time of periods of depression but agrees to take medications of schizophrenia.
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Person centred care: In the case of Kevin, Patient centre care will be the best therapy
because it can fill his emotional needs or gap because it is stated that due to ineffective relation
and domestic violence he is suffering from this problem. In this care or therapy one of the main
aim of therapist is to focus on the person not the problem. It is important for therapist to make
the patent believe that he will not be judged and can share anything whatever he wants. In this
case, it can allow the patient to better cope with current and future problems which he may face
by talking much with therapist Delaney, (2018).
Communication theory: A Communication skill is vital and must which a therapist and
healthcare provider has. It is the key of the success. Therapists have to deal with all types of
patient and being calm, making use of active listening, talking in a polite manner is important in
order to make the patient feel comfortable and valued. In this case it can be said that interactive
model of communication can help therapists to solve current problems of the patient and make
him feel better as well as influencing him to take insulin. With the help of this model, therapist
tries to influence the patient to share his feelings and for that therapist also tell the patient about
himself for treating him as a friend.
Developing trust, empathy: After using communication model, it can also be said that
trust and empathy in healthcare plays an important role. This skill and behaviour builds patient
trust makes him able to be calm and depressed free. In this context, authors have proved that
empathy is one of the main skill and key which is associated with better adherence to
medications, decrease chances of mistakes in healthcare processes and the most important is
increasing patient satisfaction Omura & et.al. (2018).
So, from the above discussed steps, it can be said that therapeutic relation plays an
important role in healthcare and especially in cases of schizophrenic, mental illness, depression
and anxiety. So, in the case of Kevin who has all these problems with type 1diabetes due to
domestic violence can improve his health.
LO 2
Evidence base required to care for and support people with acute mental health condition
Evidence based care planning: Mental health or schizophrenic is one of the main
diseases which need to solve at early stage in an efficient manner. Some evidence based care
planning in the case of Kevin includes: medications, family based services and cognitive
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