Outlining Practice of Mental Health Nursing
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Outlining Practice of Mental HealthNursing from lived experience of Sandy JeffStudent Name:Student ID:Subject Name:Subject ID: NRSG210Date Due:Professor Name:Page | 1
Mental health professionals need to align their services for recovery of patients accordingto lived experience (Le Boutillier 2011). Recovery might vary amongst patients, mental healthprofessionals can design recovery matched to individual client’s need. Principles of recovery inmental health practice enables overcoming situation which an individual faces with mentaldisabilities. These principles rightly pointed at recovery being not synonymous with cure.Implying health professionals providing recovery has to develop a connection meant atempowerment and healing instilling in a positive culture. Hertfordshire Partnership NHSFoundation Trust Recovery Principles UK have adopted uniqueness of individual, real choices,dignity and respect, attitude and rights, partnership and communication and evaluatingrecovery as being pillars for recovery.Uniqueness of the individual directs recovery process tomake more meaningful and satisfying for making a purposeful life. It adopts unique nature of theperson for empowering them towards social inclusion. Real choices empower individuals tomake choices related to their mental health care themselves. Dignity and respect providescourteous and sensitive interactions for individuals for their beliefs, culture and values. Attitudesand rights includes listening and then acting on such communications. Partnership andcommunications involves communicating clearly with individuals needing help in a realisticmanner. Evaluating recovery is a more con tenuous process focused on enabling individuals totrack their own progress. Personal recovery for any individual is a journey, who experiences psychosis distresshence has to be supported by experience of healthcare professionals. In cases of patientsexperiencing schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders it becomes important to explore coreprinciples of self-determination, as the live they select to live in becomes relevant. Slades,Page | 2
Amering and Oades (2008) Recovery procedures not only extinguishes symptoms of disordersrather it is an unique experience that individuals adopt for the journey they experience (Slade2008). Recovery for patients Sandy Jeff, who has been facing schizophrenia for past 35 years,has to be self-inflicted. She is a renowned poet who defines her madness by using several verbsin uploaded YouTube video. Healthcare professionals who work exclusively towards patient’sindividual goals then it is more likely that they will in turn engage with them. The scope of thiscurrent analysis deals with Sandy Jeff, who felt distraught was locked up in a mental asylum. Sheis treated badly as a lunatic which is clearly reflected in her poems as she remains locked up in aroom. This shows the gap that healthcare professionals have not been able to communicate withher appropriately. She does not rely on her psychiatrists as he treats his all patients similarly asmad persons. Healthcare professionals in mental health nursing needs to attend to individualisticneeds and not cater to everyone in similar manner. Their role exists for rendering greater benefitsto patients in charting their road to success. Individuals facing mental illness gain recovery through installing in hope, engaging inpersonal autonomy. Recovery principles have been adapted from the Hertfordshire PartnershipNHS Foundation Trust Recovery Principles, UK. Lived experience refers to an individual stateor condition, when faced with mental health condition. Healthcare professionals need tounderstand lived experience prior to proposing a plan for consumer recovery. When a personfaces mental distress in psychosis then she should be supported by experience to help her recoverher current state or condition. Recovery is a journey where different people might select differentapproaches towards integration in case disorder is examined (Gabrielsson 2015). In most of thecases consumer prefers not to analyse disorder as it might lead to depression. AS in case ofSandy Jeff, she already feels depressed by her current mental conditions and the way she is beingPage | 3
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