Mental Health Nursing: Transferable Skills, Social Aspects, and Values

This article discusses the transferable skills, social aspects, and values required for mental health nursing. It covers the importance of caring, spirituality, psychological aspects, and knowledge and understanding in nursing. It also explores how social circumstances impact health and wellbeing, and the core values essential for education.

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Section 1
The RPL hours is 500 hours maximum. Out of this I am claiming all the 500 hours.
This practise experience I had completed while working as a health care assistance in
three different care homes. There were several duties which included like attending on the
elderly patients comprising of feeding these patients, washing them, along with attending to
their needs and groups. This also included reading with the elderly patients and playing
games with them along with singing and dancing so that help could be provided to them for
their prevailing health conditions. While working with these patients I had to make sure that
they remained happy at all times, also had to help them to cope up with their loss of memory.
I also made sure to help them maintain their dignity in addition to self-respect and general
care. Apart from this, there was times I had to help these patients to recover from stroke or
nay kind of general illness.
Apart from working in the hospital in the palliative care setting, I also was engaged in
working in the prison, where I had to conduct general observations for the inmates of the
prison especially for those who want to commit suicide. For these inmates, it was my duty to
record all their actions in which they are involved and additionally make sure that they do not
get access to such things which can cause them injury. During my period of practise, I also
had experience working with patients suffering from bipolar diseases and dementia and
similar other psychological disorders.
My curriculum vitae covering my experiences along with the timeline is provided in
the appendix.
Section 2
Physical care:

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Presence of transferable skillscan be identified which include a range of skills as well
as experiences that are quite valuable to the healthcare along with the healthcare
organizations. During my tenure of practise, the transferable skills which I could identify as
to possess were caring for people, people skills and organising and managing. In terms of
caring for people, transferable skills were involved incaring for the elderly and the disabled
patients who required additional care. While working in the prison, the skills also required
provision of care to the inmates and monitoring of their actions (Kitson et al. 2013).
Transition skills also included the people skills that came from previous experiences
of working with different people by performing a caring and advisory role. I am a people
person and love to help the patients as well as their families and try to support them and make
them comfortable. Working as a part of the healthcare team as well as working in the
community either in a multidisciplinary team with social workers, in a small team in a GP
surgery or clinic, or working one to one with patients in their own homes.Transferable skills
like effective hand washing were present as it was part of the care giving to the patients.
Importance of these skills lie in the fact that having this skills helps in better critical
thinking skills as it is important or a nurse plays the role of an in-charge. This also helps the
nurse to adapt to the unpredictable conditions that might prevail while giving help to the
patient. While working especially with the elderly people and the inmates of the prison, there
were times when it was required of me to meet the emotional and the psychological needs to
the patients (Robson et al. 2013). In case of the elderly patients because of their physical
disability, there are times that they suffer from depression. In such cases it is my duty to help
these patients overcome this condition. In the case of the inmates of the prison, they often
suffer from suicidal tendencies. In such case the emotional and the mental health needs of
these individuals are required to be attended to so that they can be prevented from taking their
own lives.

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Spirituality:
Tending to address spirituality in the medical and mental human services of the older
adults around the world, especially those with endless ailment, inability, issues adapting has
picked up a considerable measure of significance as of late. This has been driven by the vast
and regularly developing proof base demonstrating an association between
religious/spirituality (R/S) contribution and numerous parts of mental and physical wellbeing
in later life. The need of including spirituality is essential since for these individuals religion
goes about as an impacting power. Secondly, R/S convictions and practices are regularly used
to adapt to misfortune and change in later life, especially declining physical wellbeing and
expanding reliance, which medicinal medications might be less successful in turning around
(Rogers and Wattis 2015). These progressions present existential difficulties in connection to
character, trust, which means, reason throughout everyday life, and independence or
connectedness – issues that many view as otherworldly in nature. Thirdly, there is developing
proof that demonstrates religious inclusion is identified with better physical wellbeing and
more prominent prosperity in middle-age and more established grown-ups, and in addition
more social help and positive wellbeing practices and better treatment consistence. A long
term relationship ought to be set up with patients before incorporating otherworldliness into
restorative or mental consideration (Ruder 2013).
Psychological aspects:
The individual narratives of the patients who are suffering with illness led to an
impact on me by their interaction. The palliative care practice helped to create both the
opportunity and the responsibility so that I could to bear witness, join with, and contain bias
and judgment as professionals work with patients in order to understand their values and
personhood in the face of illness. Of this interface, one important element was the awareness

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of the role of the personal schemas along with biases, and the assumptions which could play
as well as recognize that the values play a role to infuse healthcare systems with the
institutions and thereby impact the experience of illness of the patient. Vigilance along with
affectability prompts the upgraded chances to look at language and associations and to find
roads toward patient-focused consideration that may be more receptive to and conscious of
individual encounters. Hypothetical structures created to educate this procedure are depicted.
Past the hypothetical and useful reasoning around these issues, social insurance experts can
advance their training and make important commitments that respect patients as entire people
in their sickness ventures (Cullen 2016).
The experience of patient or service user emotional or mental health needs involves
overseeing that that people have access to treatments that are effective and safe. Additionally
this ensures the manner in which administrations are assessed, how individuals' issues are
evaluated, how referrals between various segments of wellbeing frameworks are overseen,
aftercare courses of action, and the procedure of release all have a critical impact in
administration clients' general understanding of the consideration they get (Rahimi et al.
2013). This is similarly valid for clients of emotional well-being administrations where the
arrangement of fitting data and support over the consideration pathway is a fundamental
piece of conveying a great administration.
Social aspects:
The prevalence of reduced economic and social situations are responsible for affecting the
health of an individual throughout the life. People who are in the lower stages of the social
ladder have an increased risk of serious illness along with premature death which were more.
There is a prevalence of social gradient along the health that runs throughout the society so
that the middle class workers also along with the lower ranking staff suffer from elevated

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rates of the disease. Prevalence of stressful circumstances along with the severe damage to
health might lead to premature death. The psychological as well as the social circumstances
are responsible for causing long term stress. The factors like continuation of anxiety along
with anxiety, prevalence of low esteem an social isolation have strong effects on the health.
(Farquharson et al. 2013).
Knowledge about how people’s social circumstances impact on their health and well-
being is important for providing nursing care since this has an impact on the type of nursing
that is provided. In cases where the social determinants are seen to be weak, we as nurses try
to provide compassionate care and in closed environments to make sure that the patient is the
getting the best possible care. The ways compassion can be shown to the patients involve
being empathetic, listening carefully to the patients, being positive towards others, proper
interaction and socialization and finally checking in on the patients every now and then.
Knowledge and understanding:
We as nurses need to recognize our own qualities and expert morals. Individual
qualities are what we hold huge and valid for ourselves, while proficient morals include rules
that have general applications and guidelines of lead that apply in all circumstances. We need
to collect these center qualities and follow them to the best of our capacity. Amid the several
events, we have to recall why we should chose to end up as a nurse and our vision with
respect to what we need to accomplish (Nåden et al. 2013). We should put the consideration
of others first and to treat everybody similarly. A man who picks nursing as a calling settles
on a decision that will influence them for a lifetime. We as nurses consequently abstain from
enabling individual judgments to cloud our choices with respect to customer care. We should

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be straightforward and reasonable with customers and act to their greatest advantage while
demonstrating most extreme regard for them. We who are new graduates and are entering the
workforce additionally should be set up to take part in the complex basic reasoning abilities
and create adequate socialization aptitudes to manage the colossal development in innovation
and duties expected in the calling (Zoboli and Schveitzer 2013).
Transferable skills:
Skills that I had developed and which could be transferred into the course and nurse
training involved compassion and empathy, strong communication skills, customer services
and grace under pressure. While my period of practise, my seminary training along with good
counselling experiences helped to sharpen some of my strengths like empathy and
compassion especially for the poor and troubled. Additionally improvement occurred in good
listening skills, and an understanding of different cultures and especially a respect for
teamwork that helped me to make a better nurse. It should be noticed that talking plainly and
listening carefully are major transferable skills that are basic for individuals who would like
to be at the bedside giving quality social care. It is essential that the medical caretakers must
convey successfully with patients, as well as with doctors, supervisors, associates and
patients' families. The capacity to give precise and accurate documentation is additionally
imperative in healthcare services. The experience of working made me a good server so that I
could organise as well as multitask. Like good front-line healthcare workers, I also tried to
provide satisfactory customer service. I also accumulated several skills in order to bear the
pressure of the high-stakes healthcare job especially in the emergency departments (Fong
2016).
Values and attitudes:

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Caring is best demonstrated by a nurse's ability to embody the five core values of
professional nursing. Core nursing values essential for education include human
dignity, integrity, autonomy, altruism, and social justice. Altruism is the capacity to be
sacrificial and rather have a commitment to the welfare of others. In the nursing calling, the
medical caretaker gives love and shows thoughtfulness to her patient as well as for herself. A
medical caretaker must keep up tranquillity inside herself when with a patient so as to
completely bolster and give security to their patient (Chinn and Kramer 2013). This is also
imperative for the medical caretaker to stall burnout and stretch which may stop them
completing their obligation viably. With a specific end goal to get and secure these
humanistic-charitable qualities, the medical attendant must display unending adoration,
generosity and mental mindfulness consistently. Selflessness is basic in opening a medical
attendant's sympathy and compassion thusly making a more positive and recuperating
condition for the patient. Self-sufficiency in the medical caretaker quiet relationship nursing
gives the patient a privilege to educated assent. The medical attendant gives his patient the
actualities on his condition and exhorts him on the accessible recuperating choices in addition
to any fundamental repercussions (Fain 2017). The patient at that point has the privilege to
experience the technique or not. The nursing calling requests nobility for all patients. All
individuals are equivalent and they warrant a similar treatment paying little respect to any
outside elements. The rule of human poise agrees the medical caretaker the obligation to
regard all patients as they would treat their very own friends and family if they somehow
happened to think about them. Nurses fit in with the standards of acting truly, decently, and
morally while adhering to their job of thinking about the destitute. They should hold each
other to the most astounding measures of demonstrable skill and moral direct (Jones 2013).
Medical caretakers should additionally be straightforward to their partners in the calling and
to the individuals who depend on them. Nurses are required to maintain opportunity of

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decision in their patients' consideration, while not trading off their poise. Attendants attempt
to advance their customers' best advantages and endeavor to accomplish the best results.
Usefulness involves medical attendants advancing useful for the patient. Medical attendants
are likewise required to act in non-perniciousness way to staying away from damage to their
patient (Brown et al. 2015).
Conclusion
From the above discussion it can hence be concluded that we as nurses need to
preserve our own integrity that can be developed through our practise and training.
Progressing instructive capabilities and staying up to date with new innovation are
fundamental to accomplishing both individual and expert development. We are therefore
required to take course units consistently to keep up to date and stay pertinent. Continuous
investment in the advancement of the calling through research additionally raises the profile
of submitted nurses. The medical attendant is capable and responsible for designating
assignments reliable with ideal patient consideration. We should work along these lines and
work in a joint effort with other medical service specialists to guarantee patients get the best
treatment even in her nonattendance. These psychological risks gather up during the life and
are responsible for the chances of poor psychological health conditions along with
occurrences of premature death. The long tenures of anxiety along with the prevalence of
insecurity with the reduced supportive friendships are responsible for causing damage to the
area of life wherever they arise. The people who are present in the lower ranks of the social
hierarchy of the industrialised countries, the problem is most common and significant for
them (Farquharson et al, 2013).

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Appendix
Curriculum vitae
Job descriptions-
 Worked as a health care assistance in 3 different care homes
 worked in prison caring out general observation for inmates
 working with bipolar diseases and the likes , Dementia and others
Job roles-
 Feeding of elderly patients, washing them , attending to their individual needs and
group, reading with them playing games , dancing , singing and al that help in their
situation while working in elderly homes and hospital wards.
 While working in the prison general observation for inmates who want to commit
suicide recording everything they do and making sure they have no access to things
that can injure them.
 Working with bipolar diseases, Dementia and others.
Timeline (needs to be provided by then student along with the evidences of RPL practise)

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