FAMILIES AND MENTAL HEALTH IN ACUTE CARE SETTING ASSESSMENT 2022

Running head: FAMILIES AND MENTAL HEALTH IN ACUTE CARE SETTING
FAMILIES AND MENTAL HEALTH IN ACUTE CARE SETTING
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Introduction
Family nursing has assessed the health of the entire family in order to identify the
health issues and risk factors that developing intervention in order to address concerns and
improve the health of the individual and family member. Understanding family is an
important role of a nurse and thus, engaging them in the treatment has been found to being
one of the most effective interventions in the health care setting especially in acute care
settings (Kaakinen et al., 2018). Families varied in a number of aspects and have their own
cultural belief, values and attributes. The nurse needs to have knowledge in the theory of
family, structure, function and processes to assist them in maintaining a state of health and
wellbeing. The aim of this assignment is to develop an Education Tool for nurses working in
acute care settings about families and mental health.
Nurse knowledge related to Family and Mental Health
Importance of strategies to improve nursing knowledge
Mental illness is one of the most significant issues that many people are facing all
over the world. As per the American Psychiatric Nurses Association demonstrates that there
is a shortage of nurse at each level and thus, the role of psychiatric mental health nursing is
limited. Thus, it is important to raise awareness between the nurse and offer them education
strategies and intervention that would help the mentally ill patient and family members. A
study by Kroning (2016), stated that importance of role-playing and simulation in learning
that would help the nurse to effectively address the issues faced by the family members and
thus, utilising mental health clinical experience to resolve the problems.
Use of Psychoeducation
The admission of a family member in an acute care setting with the first episode of
psychosis can be distressing and confusing for the family members. The use of

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Psychoeducation is found to be useful in enhancing the knowledge of families related to the
disease progression and the role of supporting in recovery. The study conducted by Nolan
and Petrakis (2019) was intended for understanding the efficiency of psychoeducation on
addressing the needs of the families in the acute treatment phases of psychosis. Inpatient
meeting was conducted for six months and it was found that it offered an individualised and
targeted approach that satisfies the need of a family with active listening.
With increasing interest in the role played by the families in the treatment of the
patients, some of the interventions were found to be more productive and help in the
reduction of the clinical difficulties in a positive manner. In another similar study by
Broekema et al. (2018), a quasi-experimental design was used for investigating the effect of
the psycho-educational program on the perspective of burden and attributes of schizophrenia
among the caregivers. A sample of 50 caregivers of the patient was included in the study. It
was found that most caregiver with the burden and has negative attitudes prior to
intervention. The experimental group reported having reduced burden and enhanced attitude
toward the mental illness after the intervention that the psycho-educational program.
Use of Matrix-based Strategies
The study conducted by de Carvalho da Silva and Cardoso de Souza (2017), the
verification of the implementation of Mental Health Matrization which is a resource for the
Family Health team and assessment of strategies to have a permanent Educational Tool for
nurses to the families related to mental health was conducted. The use of exploratory,
descriptive study and qualitative approach was based on two municipal health centres in
Brazil. After the mapping of the strategies related to matriciamento in relation to mental
health, it was found that there is an association of this with Permanent Education. Thus, the