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

Running head: MENTAL HEALTH- NURSING
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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