My Clinical Experience At A Psychiatric Hospital

This Case Study will be undertaken as a group activity and is designed to deepen your knowledge about mental illnesses, and to test your understanding about the nursing care of people suffering from such conditions. It will also assist you to express your ideas through class presentation and in writing.

It hits you like a freight train, or at least it did for me. I was thirteen when I stopped looking forward to things, and I swear it happened over night; like California in the summer, when everything seems okay and then you blink and it is all up in flames. I was thirteen years old when I came to terms with the fact that I no longer wanted to live.

While researching I found that Psychiatric nursing encompasses a fully holistic care model. A Psychiatric mental health (PMH) nurse must assess and integrate a patient’s medical, physical, social, cultural, socioeconomic, etc. considerations with his /her mental health concerns. Psychiatric nursing is equal parts knowledge, compassion, and intuition leveraged by experience. Psychiatric nurses deliver care with a planned emphasis on addressing the very areas of health and the mind that other nursing and medical disciplines view as an afterthought or footnote to the priority of physical/biological care. Psychiatric nurses, by helping a client to improve and positively progress in their mental health, can impact that client’s ability to maintain healthy lifestyles, medical regimens, employability, community integration and productivity. Psychiatric nurses are essential to the real-time enhancement of their client’s quality of life.

During my psychiatric clinical rotation at Carney Hospital I had the opportunity to help run group therapy’s where I was able to understand some of the patients better. During this time I was also able to learn more about my patient F.S. The patient is a fifty-two-year-old divorced Chinese woman with a lengthy history of bipolar disorder and a persistent associative history of schizophrenia and attempts at suicide. The patient has one daughter that is 24 years old who noticed F.S. was throwing her pills down the toilet and hiding them in her pockets so she didn’t have to take them. . During her admission, the patient displayed increased levels of incredible energy and mood activities, an approach that was thought to have been instigated by the worsening of her health condition.

Mental health nurses are like regular nurses except they focus on the specific target of mental illnesses in mostly teens and adults. Mental health nursing/psychiatric nursing is a good profession to go into because of its good salary, health care benefits, and rewarding social interaction with people who need it most. There are many challenging parts to this profession, but there are just as many rewarding parts.

The professional organization I will explore is the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. This vison of the APNA is to instill the core values of “empowerment, inclusivity, integrity, collegiality, innovation, transparency, and stewardship.” It is the mission of the APNA Administrative Council “to facilitate collaboration and communication among psychiatric nurse administrators, to serve as a clinical resource in achieving shared goals, and to assist in the use of evidence-based practices and innovative systems for exceptional patient care.” APNA is the only psychiatric mental health nursing organization whose membership is inclusive of all psychiatric mental health registered nurses. A membership is available to those individuals who are registered nurses and dues are $135.00 per year. APNA has more than 9,500 members and allow them to be attached with a vibrant community of psychiatric mental health nurses. This allows many resources and programs, with the opportunity to advance in the area of psychiatric mental health nursing profession.

Since the schizophrenic patient is responding to an internal state of mind, continuity of care is a significant factor in psychiatric nursing. Other responsibilities of the mental health nurse may include close monitoring of the physiological status before, during and after medications and since schizophrenia is not curable, the patient nurse relationship is the central concept for psychiatric nursing (Dearing, 2004). The nurse always works as a close team member with other

Suffering from a mental illness can be debilitating and overwhelming, not only for the client, but their family members, as well. As front-line workers, mental health nurses are responsible for developing a rapport and building a foundation with this particular population. In doing so, psychiatric nurses can positively impact client care outcomes, allowing the client to experience optimal levels of holistic care. Effective therapeutic nurse-client relationships with mental health clients must be developed and maintained by nursing staff in order to provide their clients with the best care possible. In fact, The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) states that “the therapeutic nurse-client relationship is central to all nursing

Psychiatric nurses change the lives of their patients by providing expert care and support to people with emotional disorders. On an average day, an employee assesses the patient's condition, give counseling, monitor patients even after their treatment. Even after their done working with a patient, they’ll still check up on them to make sure their following through with the treatment they received. The best part of the job is assessing

As a nurse, a good understanding of the principles regulating this profession is vital. In what follows, I will describe the functional differences between the New Jersey State Board of Registered Nurses and the American Psychiatric Nurse Association (APNA), and how they relate to current nursing practice. I will also provide a discussion of two of

If psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner established treatment plans with clear expectation, both party will know the plan and will have a goal to achieve. There will be minimal disagreement since the limits are set and expectations are clearly stated upon admission. The patients also get a treatment that geared toward accomplishing absences. In general, the patients and caregivers relationship will be improved which ultimately increase

It was a nice day in the mental asylum. When all of a sudden someone yelled for help me. So super cow came running into the room and found poker laying on the ground. With a pool of blood surrounding him. Trump was the first on the sean then supercow ask what happened and trump said his throw has been slit with a piece of glass milk bottle. Then trump said that could be only one person. And supercow ask who trump said the milker. Then supercow went outside and told bacon bites to get the other and met in trump's room. And so bacon bites told george and to get baboo. So george got babo who got picklerick. And before they all went to trump's room they brought up how poker liked meat and not vegetables. And then they went and supercow was waiting

My first week of inpatient psych unit experience was great. I had a lot of experience with patients and staff by learning new skills and participating in community group discussion. I also had a experience to talk with each patient and able to check vital sign of each patient. I also had good experiences on identify each patient by their name and checking safety check on each patient every 15 minutes was good experience of inpatient psych unit in my first week.

The whole point of a Psychiatric Ward is that it's very difficult to get out of. The same can be said of getting in.

The leading cause of disability in the United States is mental disorders (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Harmon-Hanson, 2015). According to the National Institute of Mental Health (n.d.) in 2014, there were approximately 43.6 million Americans, eighteen years of age or older, with a mental health condition meeting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition criteria. These statistics shed light on the importance of nurses caring for the family as a unit. The purpose of the post is to discuss the benefits and barriers to incorporating the family into the care of a family member, newly diagnosed with a mental health condition.