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Assignment On Nursing Care In Mental Health

   

Added on  2019-09-30

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Nursing care in mental health1.0.IntroductionDespite of ongoing lectures and tutorials before and after the sessions, I understood that thereexists a difference in the learnings and knowledge that I had on mental health. Across theworld, the mental health services (Prince et al., 2007), progress towards meeting thechallenge and needs have been slow in middle- and low-income countries (Saraceno et al.,2007). The possible barriers that influence the mental health service include, the existingpublic health priorities, resistance to decentralization of services, challenges to the delivery ofmental health services in primary health care settings, low numbers of trained professionals,and the lack of effective leadership. Therefore, the health workforce who involve in theservices of patients with mental health should know the behavior of patients prior to initiationof treatment and should be able to handle the patients. The nursing professional shouldconduct a thorough study on how the public from a specific region is behaving. The extent towhich the public is following the instructions should be evaluated. However, the extent towhich the public obey the compliance can be influenced by the poverty and socioeconomicstatus of the people. In addition, the cultural background and religious beliefs etc also play arole in following the instructions. The migration of people from one region to other cancontribute for the diversified cultural development too. For instance, the migration may fallinto family and economic-class (Higginbottom et al., 2011). It is therefore axiomatic thatnurses in these nations care for diverse ethno-cultural groups and that this may presentchallenges in respect of nursing care delivery.2.0.Cultural safety in nursingAs a nurse, I would involve in taking care for mental health in Northern Territory of Australia(Utopia), the culture, religious beliefs are relatively vulnerable as the population is fromdiverse races (Anderson & Kowal, 2012). The culture of rural and urban public is entirelydifferent. The ethical aspects and spiritual aspects of public and typical attitudes force me tolearn and undergo for training. For instance, the personal values are different and directlyinfluenced by social values. Some of the individuals are emotional in taking decisions andsome are with inferiority complex. I notice that certain encouragement is required for thepublic to prioritize the tasks, abilities to improve the decision-making capacity etc. Therefore,the nurses who cater services in such area needs to be aware the background, teaching skillsto encourage the people so that they can perform better and in a planned manner. Afterthorough understanding based on the evidences, an appropriate care model can be appliedsuch as ‘transcultural nursing’. ‘Multiculturalism’ is one of the model can be applied for thepeople with diverse ethno-culture background. The social, scholarly, and moral developmentknown as multiculturalism has been immensely powerful in mental health. Its capacity toreshape brain science has been because of its moral power, which gets from the engagingquality of its points of incorporation, and shared appreciation (Fowers & Davidov, 2006).Therefore, the nurses should understand the psychology of public to reshape the tendencies ofhuman beings who are with differences of attitudes.3.0.Management skillsThe development of the professional self is considered as the most essential component innursing and in social work training (Esther, 2010). As a mental health nurse, I need to work1

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