NURS20157: Mental Health Nursing Portfolio: Risk Reduction & Safety

This portfolio examines mental health nursing, focusing on mental state examinations, nursing interventions for physical and psychosocial care, and patient/nurse safety. It highlights the importance of understanding a patient's history and background for effective treatment, emphasizing therapeutic interventions and the use of genograms to assess hereditary factors. The role of mental health nurses in promoting physical and psychological wellbeing through various strategies, including medication, social interaction, and exercise, is discussed. The portfolio concludes that mental health examinations are crucial for creating personalized treatment plans and ensuring patient safety, with Desklib offering additional resources for students.

Mental health nursing

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Mental health is defined as the cognitive, behaviour and the emotional wellbeing. In this, it helps
to state about the behaviour and thinking of people. The people sometime use the term which is
associated with the mental health which show the absence of mental disorder. The mental health
may also affect the daily living, relationship and the physical health of patient. In this report, the
patient gone through the mental state examination and screening of their behaviour. Moreover,
the genogram is discussed in such a way which is helpful to know the person genetic and
heredity which may inbound to led to cause of the mental health issue. The interrogation of risk
and safety which is based on the person centred care, social protection with legal, moral and
based on ethical principle (Chang and et. al., 2017).
MAIN BODY
History is usually taking in all clinical setting because it allows the health professional to
test out the hypothesis which make clear understanding towards the nature and the impact of the
patient experience. In this, there are various mental health examination is taken under various
circumstance which help to provide the aspect which is associated with patient safety and their
security. As per this, the healthcare professional is trying to study their psychiatric attachment
they feel intimidated by the curve process, there are some feeling which is taking into the
account of previous history which is based on experience (Yayan and et. al., 2018). The
therapeutic requirement with the patient is needed when they are violent and they cannot control
with communication and interaction. With the contrast with given mental health examination and
the screening report, it is well indicated that the patient is violent and abusive and may create
harm to other. In such cases the therapeutic intervention which include pharmacological and non-
pharmacological approaches. The medication towards the mental health include various aspect,
the proper use of drug and their dose in order to inhibit the response which may create threat for
the nursing staff and other (Furnes and et. al., 2018).
In this, the proper investigation is being taken in order to know the person background
because it is helpful approach to treat the patient in the proper way. The psychiatric interview is
the core opportunity which is associated with the clinician which used to make the assessment of
the patient mental state and used to establish the therapeutic relationship. In this, the ability to do
with this which help to require the use of non-directive open questioning which is followed in
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such as which is based on systematic probe closed questions. As per this, there are various of
ambiguities and the inconsistence that take clarification by sensitive enquiry (Tierney and et. al.,
2020).
They ensure that elaborate the timeline which is associated with the patients issue. common
error which has been made in the process which majorly include failure to seek the precise
clarification, failure towards the cues and picking the patient which is used of jargon. The patient
safety and their social protection is essential which is based on the ethics and moral which is
counted in the mental health examination. Mental state examination usually shows the
examination aspect which is based on the aspect of psychiatric assessment which help to
intimidate towards the professional in the most cases. It may see sometime obvious but have
worth stressing which help the examination of the patient mental state at the time. It is not the
aspect of core history of their morbid and show the experience. In this, the patient that has
hallucinating the day before they saw them, there are various morbid experience which is usually
demonstrated in the history but in the mental state examination (Labrague and et. al., 2018).
The genogram which show the person associated family background have specific relevance
in nursing intervention which help to assist the physical and psychological care of the person
which used to experience distress. In this, the selected nursing intervention is balance the life
with the exercise and formulating aspect of wellbeing as per best which may reduce the
complication. The physical factor include exercise, meditation and various aspect which may
helpful to develop resilience and reduce the stress. The physical wellbeing always promotes
quality of life and care towards the patient who is facing the situation of mental illness (Onder
and et. al., 2020).
The major role of mental health nurse is developing quality of health with the help of
physical and psychological wellbeing which include social gathering and meeting new people
which may be appropriate for the development of resilience. The mental health nurse provide
assistance towards the treatment and recovery by supporting and providing drug and mediaction
on time. As per this, they also configure some aspect which provide support and care that follow
the preliminary aspect of mental examination. Moreover, the wellbeing is act as treatment and
faster recovery of patient who is facing the issue of mental health (Myklebust and et. al., 2018).
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CONCLUSION
As per the above discussion, it is analysed the mental health examination is important aspect
to provide the treatment plan and care plan to the individual. In this, the genogram is useful
aspect to understand the significance of mental health issue which may be associated with
background of patient. The genetic flow of disease is also observed under this stance which
provide information regarding the heredity disease. The mental health examination is defined
about the factor which is responsible for the issue of such condition, this is helpful to find the
path for the treatment which act as intervention.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Chang and et. al., 2017. Effects of the Flipped Classroom Approach on the Psychiatric Nursing
Practicum Course. Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health
Nursing, 26(2), pp.196-203.
Furnes and et. al., 2018. Communication in mental health nursing-Bachelor Students' appraisal of
a blended learning training programme-an exploratory study. BMC nursing, 17(1), pp.1-
10.
Labrague and et. al., 2018. Stress and coping strategies among nursing students: an international
study. Journal of Mental Health, 27(5), pp.402-408.
Myklebust and et. al., 2018. Nursing documentation in inpatient psychiatry: The relevance of
nurse–patient interactions in progress notes—A focus group study with mental health
staff. Journal of clinical nursing, 27(3-4), pp.e611-e622.
Onder and et. al., 2020. Problematic Internet Use and Digital Gaming in Adolescents: Problems,
Nursing Interventions, and Outcomes. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental
Health Services, 58(12), pp.51-59.
Rosa, R.D.D. and Maniago, J.D., Student’s Preparedness and Their Clinical Performance in
Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.
Tierney and et. al., 2020. The Future of Nursing: Accelerating gains made to address the
continuum of substance use. Archives of psychiatric nursing, 34(5), pp.297-303.
Yayan and et. al., 2018. Post-traumatic stress disorder and mental health states of refugee
children. Archives of psychiatric nursing, 32(6), pp.885-889.
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