Addressing Challenges in Mental Nursing: A Comprehensive Analysis

This report delves into the multifaceted challenges encountered by mental health nurses. It begins by addressing pre-licensure challenges, such as the lack of practical experience and the need for comprehensive training in mental health nursing. The discussion then moves to post-licensure issues, including limited resources and opportunities, and the impact of these factors on patient care. The report further examines professional challenges, such as public perception, skill set limitations, and the crucial role of patient needs assessment. Specific issues, including patient behavior and adherence to NMBA guidelines, are analyzed. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of experience and skill development in navigating the complexities of mental health nursing, with the aim to improve the quality of care. The report provides valuable insights into the challenges faced by mental health nurses.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
Pre-licensure challenges.........................................................................................................3
Post licensure challenges........................................................................................................4
Professional challenges..........................................................................................................4
Particular issue.......................................................................................................................5
NMBA....................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Health care can be considered to be facing various forms of obstacles, perhaps the
principal between them is consuming been professed a shattered system ages ago (Townsend
& Morgan, 2017). Aside from the factor of system-related problem, there is numerous social
and health problem, which includes, aging problem, high cholesterol, and cutback on the
various facilities to the people counting treatment and programs for those in want of care in
mental health treatment. The main issue area, which should be focused relating to the mental
health care, is linked to the safety of the nurses.
The essay mainly deals with the factor of challenges, which are faced form the end of
te nurses when dealing with mental patients. The main area of discussion would be divided
into few parts, which are mainly pre-licensure, post-licensure challenges, and professional
challenges.
Discussion
There are various forms of challenges, which are encountered form the end of the
nurses while dealing with mental patient. The categorisation of the safety issue in a mental
nurse health care is very much a crucial factor, which should be focused. Below stated that
few points, which are related to the safety, factor of nurses at the various stages of the
practice.
Pre-licensure challenges
Challenges relating to the mental health nursing can happen in any situation in a wide
number of areas, which also includes the classroom where the student of nursing is first
initiated to the various components of nursing related to the mental nursing area (Fokuo et al.,
2017). One of the common issue is the lack of experience, which is gathered form the end of

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the metal nurses due to the lack of training in hospitals and other facilities of care (Townsend
& Morgan, 2017).
The main mitigation to the planning is the thinking process of the students who are
planning to get involved in the mental nursing specialisation (Creamer & Austin, 2017). This
field is very much complex and they have to understand that they can be faced with various
hurdles which they have to overcome in a step-by-step process (Kelly, 2018).
Post licensure challenges
Sometimes it can be stated that phenomena do transpire and the student who
execrated she would go into the nursing specialisation after post-graduation change their
mind due to the various challenges, which are confronted in the specialisation area. There are
several situations, which are seen in this manner happening to clinical work. One of the main
challenges, which are seen at this point mainly include the number of services and the bed
count for the mental patient which are less which directly impact their treatment. The factor
of opportunity and positing in the stated field of mental nursing are very much limited and
most of the places want mental health involvement in totalling to a bachelor of science and
nursing (Yang et al., 2017).
Professional challenges
The public perception of mental nurses cannot be considered as always favourable.
Many of the nurses see this expertise level of mental care as sub-standard and not real nurses
and sometimes it is stated that non-mental health nurses say that mental nurses are unwise.
According to most of the research in the context of a mental nurse, it can be stated that
mental nurse is less necessary carrier choice when compared to other nursing options. The
mental nurses usually lack an advanced skill set and advanced knowledge (Cusack, Killoury
& Nugent, 2017). One of the most crucial factor, which can be linked to mental nursing, is

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gathering of the requirement of the patient (Creamer,& Austin, 2017). This can be stated to
be very much important due to the factor that treatment would be applicable as per the
requirement. In this field, it can be stated that the mental patients are very much
unpredictable and the lack of communication, which occurs in most of the situation, makes
the delivery of care and the task of the nurse more complicated.
Particular issue
One of the main issue, which is confronted from the nurses mainly, include the behaviour of
the patient. As per reaserchers, the mental patient do not have direct control of their
behaviour of themselves and tend to behave in a manner, which is different from the normal
human behaviour. This makes the task of the nurse’s quite challenging (Jokiniemi et al.,
2012). On the other hand as per the rules which is set forward NMBA the nurses have to take
action with care and diligence, which is one of the core areas linked to their practice. The
action should be presented in a manner, which would be directing towards the betterment of
the patient taking into consideration their abrupt behaviour.
NMBA
The focus point, which is stated in the NMBA, is linked to the factor acting with care and
diligence, which is most of the cases, can be crucial for the mental health patients. They tend
to show very much less behavioural aspects linked to the problem, which is prevailing, and in
most of the cases, the experience of the nurses should be playing an active role in the context
of dealing with the problem. The nurses has to abide with the rules of care and diligence in
their practice area which would be helping in resolving various issues which are confronted
form the end of the nurses.

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Conclusion
At the end of the essay, it can be stated that mental nursing practice is an underrated
professional but one according to most of the researchers the practice set which is required is
much more complicated. So in most of the situation the experience, which is, gathered form
the end of the nurses has to be appropriate so that they can deal with the situation in a proper
manner. Complicated in any domain of nursing does prevail but with appropriate learning and
skill generation, it can be directly be minimized.

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