Canadian Mental Health Association Case Study

Nurses play many roles in today’s society; they have to balance family, life, and their job. Nursing is a very demanding profession; you are caring for the sick with limited resources causing nurses to create unrealistic expectations (Bush, 2009). Nurses create a tireless arrangement and emotional connections with patients, shouldering a huge supporting role. Supporting this role causes nurses to feel emotional exhaustion and the weight of care for patients can become overwhelming. Signs of emotional exhaustion can cause nurse to become hostile, isolated, start crying for no reason, and getting upset (Bush, 2009).

“Everyone has an important role to play in achieving healthcare rights and contributing to safe, high quality care. Genuine partnerships between those families and carers of people receiving care and those providing it lead to the best possible outcomes.” (Western NSW Local Health District 2012).

I see [hear] examples of how that would go every single day” (Burau, 2006). I currently work in the Mental Health Unit at St. Helena Hospital, so I’ve seen the effects of this firsthand many times. Many of the patients don’t have any family or are estranged from their family because of their mental health issues. From what I’ve seen, that takes just as much of a toll on the patients as their struggle with mental health. Dealing with mental health patients can be strenuous and dangerous, just like working in any branch of emergency services. We do a lot of speaking with, calming and listening to patients, similar to what dispatchers do during 911 calls. In less than a year working in the Mental Health field I’ve dealt with many stressful situations, and had to learn to leave my work at work, another concept Burau speaks about. Working in these fields and dealing with the raw patient experiences can take a

Canada’ mental health system has struggled to implement compassionate mental health treatment and the persistent problem of stigmatization negatively impacts its development. There are prevailing misconceptions and misunderstanding that result in those with mental illnesses being labelled as “idiots”, “imbeciles” and lunatics" (Kirby & Keon, 2004). Fighting this stigma is of paramount importance to ensure the support of those with mental illness and enable them to seek the necessary treatment.

While working in an emergency department (ED), nurses are expected to show compassion even when they are exhausted? Over tired? Over worked? Fatigued? The purpose of this evidence-based practice (EBP) project was to educate ED nurses on compassion fatigue (CF) risk factors, causes, and symptoms as well as assist them in its identification among each other and within themselves. Further, the project sought to provide nurses with skills in order to prevent CF. A two-hour workshop consisting of a PowerPoint presentation was implemented in a busy emergency department on the coast of NJ. Teaching nurses about compassion fatigue and ways in which to alleviate and prevent it were stressed. Self-regulation and self-care practices were introduced using interactive activities. Over the next four weeks, emails were sent reiterating self-care and self-regulatory techniques. A Pretest-posttest design used the Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) measure to determine if burnout and secondary traumatic stress (both components of CF) and compassion satisfaction improved from the workshop. A comparative means analysis showed a decline in CF.

As a mental health nurse one of the biggest priority is to provide compassion. Working with such a vulnerable population with such significant needs requires strong willed nurses who can come to work everyday with the sole purpose to provide good care and compassion. This specialty is very challenging as there are many barriers preventing patients and clients from getting the care they need which can be stressful on their caregivers, especially nurses. This can cause what Joinson as introduced in 1992: compassion fatigue.

On 12/27/16 I was faxed 26 pages of the initial evaluations and treatment plans, from the Lighthouse, speech, physically therapy and counseling all provided reports.

Mrs. Burke is a 62-year-old female here today to follow up from her visit with Katy Lilly, MD where she was discussing lower extremity swelling.

According to The Free Dictionary, mental illness is defined as, “Any of various psychiatric conditions, usually characterized by impairment of an individual 's normal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning, and caused by physiological or psychosocial factors “(The Free Dictionary, 2007). Mental illness can certainly be a physical illness, but is not as easily diagnosed like a disease such as diabetes. In a disease like diabetes, physicians can run tests to look for certain indicators of the disease in the blood like the levels of blood glucose and hemoglobin A1C. Sometimes physical conditions can cause mental illnesses. Unlike diseases like diabetes, mental health diagnoses’ often rely more on the patient relaying their symptoms

On the Local level economic and social are the main key factors in determining if an agency will be beneficial in serving the community of Kankakee. Kankakee County community members’ economic status is predominately low income. In Kankakee County there is a lack of resources and occupations available. The social factors in

1. - Mental illness: Pety informed the writer that she went to see her Psychologist because recently she is feeling very depressed, anxious and having flashbacks from the abuse she received while she was living with her ex-partner. Pety stated that this happened since she needed to tell her life story once more to Bianca from WAYYS. For that reason, and knowing that the writer will refer her to other organization, Pety requested the writer to talk on her behalf if it is a need to tell her story again.

The ARC recognized your strong leadership and MHA of NorCal for its “Mental Health Matters” monthly television show that educates the community about mental health services and supports in Sacramento. MHA of NorCal was also acknowledged for its statewide coordinated efforts for peer support training and technical assistance and the ability to manage 50 peer support groups. The ARC did note that MHA of NorCal could benefit from board development

I am a sitter for some of the mental patients that are admitted to the hospital. I sit with patients who suffer from alcohol and drug abuse which leads to the problems of schizoform or the symptoms of schizophrenia. The patients that I commonly sit with are the ones where their hallucinations and paranoia has being brought by the drug abuse. Sitting with these patients are every 15 minutes of monitoring their every move, from what utensils they eat with to their bathroom privileges. The onset stage is true, the patients are in the young adults who may already have this underlying condition or the alcohol or drug abuse triggers it.

Focus: Samantha and family will learn and practice coping skills to manage Samantha’s depressive moods. Ms. Smalls (MHP), Samantha and Ms. Smith (MHS) process Samantha’s emotions about MHS recent hospital visit and past events that led to feeling sad.

This organization puts lots of energy into advancing research to improve the techniques of identifying mental health issues (American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 2015). With earlier detection, psychiatric nurse clinicians will be able to promote the proper health and wellness to those on the