Addressing Mental Disorder: Improving Nursing Practice through Expert by Experience Guidance

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Introduction
Mental health care is a difficult and complex area where professional services and experiences
are so much needed to handle the situation. In this field of practice, it is necessary for a nurse
seek guidance from individual who is an expert by experience. This is a person who has provided
health care service and actually lived with an individual with mental disorder so he has life
experience on social and health care services. Health care experts who provide health service to
individuals who have mental illness, have a considerable experience on how best to rehabilitate
the patient, and the best ways and options to deal with the challenges the patient is facing.
Patients with mental disorder needs to be involved in their treatment and health care process.
This requires that the nurses providing the service to have in-depth ethical and professional
experience which can be best acquired from expert who have lived with people with mental
illnesses (Chadwick et al, 2012).
The notion of seeking guidance from those people with lived experience is a great innovation in
nursing practice. Sometimes engagement a patient in mental health care services may be an
obstacle to quality service provision and it has been established that the users of the service most
times like to be involved with individuals who they feel have lived experience in their own life.
Through the evidence of mutual understanding, and compassion experts with lived experience
bring a refreshing and different perspective and are capable of collecting vital feedback from
patients, which helps drives quality enhancements. The purpose of nurse seeking a collaborative
expert’s by experience guidance is to improve the nursing practices on service delivery when it
comes to giving health care to a patient with mental disorder (Bradshaw and Pedley, 2012).

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Improvement of nursing practice
In several instances a nurse feels that he or she does not have the required qualification to
provide health care service to patient with mental health disorder. This is due to insufficient
experience and education and the realities they face in work environment. When a nurse gets an
opportunity to directly interact with a person with experience in care provision he or she will
gain confidence in handling the situation with ease. It also maximizes the presence of barriers
that hinder the improvement of care intervention which is needed to help the patient. Experts by
experience have what is deemed to be a form of noble assistance, and are able to inspire nurse to
have hope when the nurses seem to be hopeless situation when providing health care service to
the patient (Reeves et al, 2013).
Offering mental health care if a very complex and challenging task to the nurses which require a
deep understanding of the possible ways to come up with solution. Considering that individuals
with mental disorder are taken the health care centers to be rehabilitated, it is essential to
recognize that the nurses have a vital role in caring for these people as well as their families. In
this regard, nurse responsibility needs to be emphasized, since he is the expert who can offer the
necessary support and information to the mental patient and family members leading to social
reintegration. When the nurses lack of the necessary skills it prejudices their care to the patient,
who needs to be served in according to health policy, that is in a respectful, humane and
dignified manner (Kitson et al, 2013).
Pinpointing probable safety apprehensions when providing care to patients with mental disorders
is very important. However, if the nurse does not have the necessary experience to identify these