Mental Nursing in Acute Care

0Running head: MENTAL NURSING IN ACUTE CARE
Mental Nursing in Acute Care
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MENTAL NURSING IN ACUTE CARE
Part 1
Mental health nursing in acute care is a complex subject and there lacks patient based
therapeutic approach (Maslach & Jackson, 2013). During my course of practise as a mental
health nurse in acute care I have noticed that up gradation of therapy plan and information
associated with the quality of care for the mental health patient is vital. Effective nurse-patient
interaction can be cited of major source of such information. Accoring to Cleary et al. (2012), the
nurse patient communication will be guided by the interpersonal approaches and personal skills
in order to understand the patient’s perspective of pain management during the challenging
situations. This understanding helps in improving the therapy plan based on the concept of
person centred care which is extremely relevant in case of aged-population care who are
suffering from depression, anxiety or dementia (Kitson et al., 2013). Apart from patient
interaction, I believe evidence based practise along with cultural competence are two other
parameters to improve in-patient day-to-day care. According to Torreyet al., 2012, evidence
based information also helps to work effectively under the community mental health settings.
However, Kirmayer, 2012 has opined that attention is required on the clinical evidence and over
the importance of the cultural context of the illness in order to improvise the healing plan based
on the cultural safety and diversity.
Thus based on my one year experience in mental health nursing, the thing that I have
understood that effective communication with the patients along with evidence based practise are
the two most important pillars in providing comprehensive day-to-day care inpatient care.