Mental Health Nursing: Need Assessment and Care Planning for Service Users

MENTAL HEALTH
NURSING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
BIOGRAPHY..................................................................................................................................3
NEED ASSESSMENT OF THE SERVICE USER........................................................................4
PLANNING CARE FOR SERVICE USER....................................................................................7
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Assessment of need of the service user and as per assessment making a plan of care plays an
important role in its recovery and mental health condition improvement. This will also lead to
ensure better care and ensure good health condition among the service user (Fostinelli, and et.al.,
2020). With the assessment of the need of the service user better care would be enable. In the
same way with the need assessment the carer would also make entitle better and efficiency care
and treatment to the user. In the same way with respect to The Code on confidentiality (NMC
2018) it is highly important that the carer or the nurse would ow a duty of confidentiality that
they share adequate information to the user and the confidential information will be kept private.
This essay will make a focus over the need assessment and making of care plan that will not only
meet its need but it will also assist in the recovery of the patient. With the aspect of making
biopsychosocial need the essay will make focus that how with the identification of the need
related with the brain changes, functioning of body organ and various other aspects are being
considered. The essay would include various themes related initiating with the identification of
the need of the service user so that its basic need and mental need will be analysed adequately.
This will be followed with the formulation of the care plan so that along with the satisfaction of
the need of the user the individual would be assisted in terms of its care that will lead to
minimise its health issues along with its improvisation.
BIOGRAPHY
During the mental health setting I cared a person named Mr joseph who had dementia. It is
noted that we have use a scudo name is used so that the provision of The Code on confidentiality
(NMC 2018) will be considered. The service user which is being selected for the concern case
study has a severe mental health issues i.e. Dementia. He was 75-year-old man who loss the
cognitive functioning including the thinking, remembering and reasoning that has affected its
daily life activities. It had also affected its decision making ability and as a result of that is being
suffered from the various family issues. With dementia the service user faced various difficulty
in its normal life and activities wherein it become very difficult for it to take decision and
remember the things which might sometime lead to create various difficulties for it. This
problem is associated with the loss of memory, issue in solving of problem and thinking
difficulties. Along with the persistence of these issues the old man faces various difficulties in its

daily life that may lead to affect its mental ability. There are various instances in the life of that
man related with its family instances wherein with the lack of the ability of taking decision he is
being neglected and avoided in the family decision. This had a major impact towards its mental
health condition. Although dementia is counted as a mental health condition but at the same time
with the perspective of various difficulties in daily activity and persistence of being ignored in
the society would lead to become a major issue in dementia.
NEED ASSESSMENT OF THE SERVICE USER
While making an assessment of the need of the service user it is found that the major need would
include the need of social contact and the activities of daily living (ADLs) that will assist the
user to grab assistance with regard to the daily living activities (Ye, and et.al., 2019). In the same
way as he was being ignored and separated from its family because of the short memory and lack
of decision making would lead to raise the need of social contact so that the need related with
loneliness and mental health would be meet.
Concept of Assessment in mental health nursing:
It is the first process of nursing wherein a detailed information is obtained from the
patient. With the aspect of assessment, the detailed history of patient has been created along with
the distinguishing of problem and the creation of nursing diagnosis with the most suitable care
plan. This will let the carer to know everything about the patient. In order to access the
information and history of the concerned service user who had been suffered from the dementia a
detailed assessment is being performed so that the concerned information related with the mental
health condition would be obtained. This also include the identification of the need of the user
that what are its main needs and how it is useful in the preparation of care plan for the concerned
user. In addition of this while undertaking the assessment various risk was also emerged in
relation with the service user. Whether patient is at the risk of harm themselves is the major risk
that emerged while assessment. This is highly important to undertake because while assessing
the need it is equally important that the patient with the mental state and the problem of dementia
would not make harm of themselves.
Role and responsibility in professional health assessment