Mental Health Procedures Reflection | Report

Running head: MENTAL HEALTH PROCEDURES: REFLECTION
MENTAL HEALTH PROCEDURES: REFLECTION
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Introduction
Mental health care is one of the crucial factors which focuses on the well being and the
positive health outcome of the patient regarding the mental and physical condition. Thus, the
mental health practitioner should focus on the effective analysis and the proper health care
standards for the maintenance of the care practice in the positive direction. Based on this context,
I can state that the assessment and the evaluation along with the care procedure of the mental
health care professional should be re-analysed for the future improvement of the care procedure.
Thus, reflecting on the practice is very much required. In this context, I can find the documented
malpractices of the mental health care facility of Townsville Hospital 10B psychiatry department
and based on the audio visual document I can reflect and develop the competence of the mental
health care in a positive direction. In the following section with the help of the Gibb’s reflective
cycle I will reflect on the documented scenario.
Gibb’s reflective cycle
Description
Investigation of the psychiatric ward of the Townsville Hospital that is the 10B
department highlighted that there are different malpractices are present. Most prominent issue of
the ward is to deliver negative practices regarding the mental health care of the patients. The
malpractice was found in police documents and also in the patient documents of both the doctors
responsible for the care of the patients of the ward. However, for 13 years there were no
investigation or actions have taken place against the malpractices. Excessive dosage of drugs was
used in the ward to sedate the patients and the doctors only ordered for the drugs with range of
dosage and the nurses without any permission of prescription administer those drugs. Thus, it can

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be found that the practice of the ward was negative as the chemical restraint has been used to
restrain the patients. It has been seen that the physical tortures were also prominent. A very
unique process of group discussion has been implemented in the hospital ward that is, vote based
punishment or reward process for the patients. The voters are other patients in this scenario. It
has been seen that the patients voting for other patients were unable to decide their own care
procedure. Thus, was also a malpractice in the care procedures of the department. Hence, another
doctor took action against the ward and investigated which lead to negative political actions
against that doctor also. However, there were many evidences which showed the malpractices of
the hospital ward towards the mental health patients. Many suicide cases and unsatisfied family
member statements along with patient statements about tortures and chemical restraint
procedures used in the ward have been seen in the audio visual document. Hence, it can be stated
that the procedure of the care in the ward was very much negative and affected quality of life of
many patients admitted in the facility.
Feelings
Based on the situation of the Townsville Hospital I can feel that the facility is not focused
on the effective and positive outcome for the patients. I can also find that the practice of the
facility is focused on negative and restraint based practice. There are several incidents where the
patients have been tortured and also the over dosage of antipsychotic medicines found to be
lethal as well. On the other hand, the patient votes based speculation of other patients have been
seen in this facility. Thus, I can find that the process of care in the facility is inhuman and also
using the patients as experimental objects can be marked as unethical. The autonomy and
beneficence of the patients have not been considered by the health care practitioners at all. On
the other hand, personnel responsible for the control of the whole hospital facility that is the