Impacts of Seclusion on Healthcare Professional

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion on mental health practices.............................................................................................2
Impacts of seclusion on consumers.................................................................................................3
Impacts of seclusion on healthcare professional.............................................................................4
Role of nurses..................................................................................................................................5
National initiatives and mental healthcare.......................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Mental health is a significant subject in Australia. Around half of the total population of
the country is experiencing mental health illness in the county (AIHW, 2020). In the country,
various types of services being implemented on the consumer for the treatment of these disorders
for years. In the mental health services involuntary treatment, restraint and seclusion are very
common treatment practices across the globe for the well-being of the people. In the involuntary
treatment and seclusion services consumers being treated without the consent of the patients and
being isolated with social surroundings to reduce the risk of patient harm as well as the risk of
public harm. But in recent years people are opposing this involuntary treatment and seclusion
practices in the healthcare system of the country. There is a movement of consumer groups or
patent’s family members to reduce such restrictive practices in the mental healthcare system of
the country (Hercelinskyj & Alexander, 2019).
This discussion contains a brief analysis of mental health practices such as seclusion.
This discussion also covers an examination of the impacts of these practices on patients, their
family and healthcare professionals. In further discussion gives a brief of the roles of registered
nurses in the mental healthcare sector has been discussed. An outline of National initiatives with
the association of mental health services and practices has been given in this discussion. The
essay examines the impact of seclusion on the consumers and healthcare professionals along
with the analysis of role of registered nurses in collaborating with consumers.
Discussion on mental health practices
To provide mental health and wellbeing to people a wide range of workforce dedicate to
offer their services. The mental healthcare workforce includes various professions such as

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nursing, occupational therapy, psychology, psychiatry, and social or community work. This
different professional provides various mental health services towards the well-being of the
people (Ezhumalai, Muralidhar, & Nikketha, 2018). These practices major classified into
voluntary and involuntary practices and both services have advantages and disadvantages. In the
voluntary practices, usually come to the doctor and ask for treatment and medical help. In the
voluntary practices, patients can choose to get a discharge from the hospital. But involuntary
treatment practice occurs when patients' mental conditions fail to recognize that he/she needs
medical help and sometimes deny seeking medical help (Farrer, Walker, Harrison, & Banfield,
2018). In such condition doctor and psychiatric professional decide patient's treatment need and
his/her stay in the hospital. If doctor observes that the patients can harm to themselves or/ and
someone else, the doctor has right to retain the patient in the hospital and isolation to avoid the
risk of potential harm without the agreement of the patient and sometimes without the agreement
of patients family as well (Legal Aid Queensland, 2020).
Impacts of seclusion on consumers
Seclusion is a part of the treatment method of mental illness where physical force,
mechanical devices, and chemicals or drug forces restrain a person to be socialized. It is a type of
restraint that involves confining a person in a particular space or a room and a person cannot
exist freely from that place. In broad terms, it is not a therapeutic care procedure. It is a part of
the treatment procedures to ensure individuals and people safe from the potential risk of harm
due to the unstable mental condition of the person (Brophy, Roper, & McSherry, 2016). It is a
tool used in the primary psychiatric treatment that manages the aggressive and disturbed
behavior of a person or patient due to his/her mental illness (Zheng, Li, Chen, Ye, & Xia, 2020).
Although, in the country, there are guidelines for use seclusion tool that help to designed to