CNA741 - Mental Health Nursing Discussion on Key Topics

This discussion post focuses on key aspects of mental health nursing, including promotion, illness prevention, recovery, and expansion of mental health services. The author discusses the importance of mental health promotion and illness prevention, highlighting universal, selective, and indicative prevention methods, as well as interventions in workplaces and violence prevention programs. The post then explores mental health rehabilitation and recovery, emphasizing the role of rehabilitation centers, therapies like cognitive behavior therapy, medication, and social support. Finally, it addresses the expansion of mental health services, suggesting strategies like integrating primary care, utilizing technology-based tools, and task shifting to improve access to care. The post references multiple research papers to support the arguments.

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Introduction
Mental health nursing theories and even practices are meant to offer a solution to the
various patients who are undergoing some emotional or also mental health illness. Moreover, this
may include those who are experiencing depression, mood disorder, or even addiction. The
nurses are the most critical individuals when it comes to offering care for the various individuals,
families, or even communities, and this happens through education, counseling, or even
medication to promote emotional health.
Summary
Some of the discussion topics that my group went through include mental health
promotion and illness prevention. Moreover, this is set to offer various methods that can be used
when it comes to promoting mental health in any given institution. Furthermore, it also involves
coming up with multiple prevention methods that can be used against mental illness. The other
topic to be considered is on how mental health can be expanded and this is set to provide the
various means that mental health can employ to ensure that the mental health patients are offered
the best care at an affordable cost and as near as possible. The third posting that is set to be
considered is on recovery and even rehabilitation (Carson, 2015). Moreover, this helps people
with health problems to gain their emotional, social, or even physical skills that they may need to
live.
Discussion Entries
Mental health promotion and illness prevention

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According to research, it is estimated that a single person out of four is vulnerable to a
mental disorder at one particular time in life. The various measures that need to be put in place
when it comes to preventing mental illness includes applying the universal prevention which
involves targeting the whole population and this is major because the entire community is in a
position to be affected by the mental illness in one way or another hence there is need to reach
out to the whole population (Videbeck, 2015). Moreover, the other prevention measure is the
selective prevention which involves targeting specific people within the people who may be at
risk of developing the mental illness, and their chances are higher compared to the entire
population.
Applying the indicative prevention method is set to aim at the individuals who are at a
higher risk of getting a mental disorder. A treatment-related strategy can be kept in place to
ensure that the individuals who are developing mental illness are exposed to medication as early
as possible to minimize complications. The various methods employed in promoting mental
health include the mental health interventions in workplaces, and this includes embracing
multiple programs that are meant to manage stress. There is a need to come up with various
violence prevention programs together with the numerous programs that are aimed at vulnerable
groups or individuals (Varcarolis, 2016).
Reference List
Videbeck, S.L., 2015. Psychiatric-mental health nursing. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Varcarolis, E.M., Carson, V.B. and Shoemaker, N.C., 2016. Foundations of psychiatric mental
health nursing: A clinical approach. Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders.

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Recovery & Rehabilitation
Mental health rehabilitation and recovery are considered to be the approach to recovery
from a mental health illness and this major on the quality of life of an. Moreover, this is meant to
help people with health problems to gain their emotional, social, or even physical skills that they
may need to live. The various means by which rehabilitation can be met in any given country
involves the development of various rehabilitation centers in multiple states or even cities to
improve rehabilitation. Improved rehabilitation facilities are important in offering the best
attention to patients (Townsend, 2017). Mental health rehabilitation is set to enable a mentally
affected individual to learn various life skills together with gaining confidence back to allow one
to make the right decisions and even to come to his right senses.
Moreover, it enables an individual to survive without any help from outside.
Furthermore, rehabilitation helps one to achieve his or her dreams in the future, together with
feeling independent and even comfortable with his or her life (Carson, 2015). Moreover, all these
can be made possible by means, such as embracing various therapies such as cognitive behavior
therapy. Medication is also an alternative to any mental illness patient, and the person should
receive some guidance on healthy living, including exercising and even avoiding drugs. The
individual can be offered accommodation, together with several social security benefits.
Moreover, the rehabilitation psychiatrist is charged with the responsibility of assessing and even
treating the mental illness patients (Orthwein, 2017).
Reference List
Townsend, M.C. and Morgan, K.I., 2017. Psychiatric mental health nursing: Concepts of care in
evidence-based practice. FA Davis.

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Orthwein, W.C., 2017. Psychiatric and mental health nursing: The craft of caring. CRC Press.
Carson, V.B. and Arnold, N., 2015. Mental health nursing: The nurse-patient journey (Vol. 423).
Tokyo: WB Saunders.
How mental health services can expand
The mental health services are the various services that are offered to mental illness
patients. Mental health services have become scarce in most countries, and this has made access
to mental healthcare difficult to most patients (Mohr, 2015). The various strategies that need to
be kept in place to expand mental healthcare include integrating the primary care, which involves
increasing the front-line practitioners. The primary care doctors can direct patients for further
evaluation by the psychiatrists or other mental health physicians. Furthermore, this is considered
to be collaborative care which offers better mental health services to the patients. Employing
technology-based tools can make care more efficient together with expanding access to the
practitioners (Shives, 2016). Using video conferencing when holding mental health visits can
help solve the problem of inadequate distribution of mental health practitioners.
There are various software tools that are believed to offer standard cognitive behavioral
therapy, and this is considered to be more effective compared to in-person therapy. All these are
set to solve various problems that come with failure to expand the access to mental health
services, and some of the effects may include the impact that mental illness is likely cause on the
life of the citizens (Mann, 2015). Task shifting is another means that can be employed when it
comes to expanding mental health services. Moreover, this involves having the physician
assistants who are specialized in mental health getting to attend to the uncomplicated patients as

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they work under the supervision of the psychiatrist. Moreover, this is essential when the
psychiatrists are few.
Reference List
Mann, S. and Cowburn, J., 2015. Emotional labour and stress within mental health
nursing. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing, 12(2), pp.154-162.
Shives, L.R., 2016. Basic concepts of psychiatric-mental health nursing. Lippincott Williams &
Wilkins.
Mohr, W.K. ed., 2015. Psychiatric-mental health nursing. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.