Psychiatric Patient Room's Place

A conflict can be described as an interpersonal disagreement between two or more parties having a difference in opinion, controversy, negative understanding or insufficient communication (McKibben, 2017). Within the healthcare arena, conflict cannot be avoided. It can have the ability to have a negative impact on the function of the team and result in inadequate patient care. When poor patient care is provided, the integrity of the nurse, the nursing profession, and healthcare as a whole is endangered (McKibben, 2017). As a result, conflict management is the process of recognizing and dealing with conflict in a realistic, fair, and competent fashion. Productive communication, problem solving, and discussing with a focus on the issues are required skills needed for conflict management (Saeed, Almas, Anis-ul-Haq, & Niazi, 2014).

There are many types of conflict; some are beneficial while others are detrimental. All types of conflict fall into three major categories (Engleberg, Wynn, and Schuttler, 2003; Stewart, Manz, and Sims, 1999). Relationship-oriented conflict, also known as affective conflict, is brought about when team members experience interpersonal incompatibilities. Relationship conflict is usually detrimental as team members have different perceptions of communication and social skills. Whereas Task-oriented conflict, also referred to as cognitive conflict or procedural conflict, occurs when team members disagree about

One evidence based practice technique that I have seen utilize in my healthcare setting is the use of locked doors on the psychiatric unit. All the doors are kept locked and you have to access them with a key to unlocked them. All visitors have to go through a lobby and check in and then have access to the unit by a healthcare staff member. Having a locked unit ensures the patient are kept safe. According to the article, Psychiatric care behind locked doors, locked doors are used to regulate patients and any other people to have access on and off the unit. This helps protects the community from the patients and protect the patients from the community. This is a major safety issue. If anyone access to the unit they could bring the patient things

Conflict has been an issue for man since the dawn of civilization. In today’s fast paced world conflict, especially in the workplace, is a frequent occurrence. When that workplace is a health care environment where lives are at stake, emotions run high and collaboration with many different disciplines is required conflict often becomes a prevalent part of everyday life. Conflicts in the workplace can lead to reduced morale, lowered productivity resulting in decreased patient care and can cause large scale confrontations (Whitworth 2008). In the field of nursing whether a conflict is with a peer, supervisor, physician, or a patient and their family, conflict management is a necessary skill.

This author has for plan to reserve a room on the unit where patients can choose to go and do activities that they usually do at home, like watching their favorite television show, listen to radio, read, etc. This room will be called the comfort room and would be a way to remove agitated patients from unnecessary stimuli and try to offer them an alternative to calm themselves down before initiating force. The second part of the plan would be to provide

Conflict will always exist when a group or team is composed with different people with different approaches and ideas. Conflict cannot be avoided and in inevitable. As nurses, it is imperative that we have conflict resolution skills to deal with our day to day encounters (Yoder-Wise,2015).

The Olmstead case began in 1995 with two women, Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson who had developmental disabilities and a history of institutional treatment for psychiatric disorders. They were voluntarily admitted at different times, to a secure unit of Georgia Regional Hospital to stabilize and administer to their immediate needs, then continued treatment on an out-patient basis which was the normal course of action for this hospital. Through clinical assessments, the treating physicians determined that each woman was able to receive appropriate supports and services in a less restrictive, community based setting. The hospital administrators moved Lois and Elaine to a state-run institution, and refused them placement in a community setting, apparently due to a lack of state funding to make this transition possible. (https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/98-536.ZS.html)

How were the mentally ill treated before asylums came about? What was it like to be treated in a mental asylum? Were the mentally ill able to return to society after being treated in a mental asylum? Why did mental asylums close down? Mental asylums were supposedly opened to help the mentally ill, but for some patients, being treated in a mental asylum was a nightmare.

If I was a young person struggling with mental illness one message I would get from this video is that psychiatric hospitals are scary, dark, and prerogative. I got this message by all the gray and black writing on the walls of the state hospital. It seems scary by the strange drawing of aliens on the walls behind B.o.B. and calling the rooms “cell blocks”. I called this music video prerogative by the “uniforms” the nurses wear which are very inappropriate for today's work place. I would not find a place like this therapeutic, in fact I would probably be discharged with more problems then I went in with. I found this to be a very poor representation of a psychiatric facility.

According to the comments, visitors and family had issues with the space, furniture, and comfort of the room. In addition, the visitors made loud noises making the roommate unable to rest comfortably. Although changing the size or spaces in the rooms is a long term process, it is possible to limit the amount of noises which visitors make. Moreover, patients are not satisfied with the discharge process as they are often not provided with enough information and ended up waiting longer.

I've always had an interest in the way people think, as well as helping people with emotional issues. So there's no question when i say i plan to study the field of psychology. I find mental institutions and asylums very appealing, in the sense of how they function and view patients and the way they treat and deal with the mentally ill. A root of my interests may stem from within my family, my mother, for example, has always had problems with anxiety and depression, and she often talks about her mental health and what she has to go through relating to her illness. Not to make my guardian sound mentally unstable, she happens to function just as well as any other person.

Services entail weekly individual or group therapeutic treatment that focuses on restoration stages to a successful reentry; stages involve topics, such as, motivation for treatment and lifestyle changes, barriers to treatment, and vulnerability to relapse. Typically, there are set hours required in order to have completed the program; however, the hours are co-dependent on the progression that is shown by the client. The option to attend group or individual therapy is based on the client’s choice, establishing the client a right to choose; however, when needed, the agency will decide in the best interest of the client.

In this case study, one day of care for a 28 year old, male patient on a low secure psychiatric unit will be examined and discussed. The main focus will be on implementation and evaluation of the nursing process. These areas will be covered under; physiological, psycho-sociological and pharmacological aspects of the patient’s care. Although, the case study is discussed using third person expression, the care discussed is what was implemented and evaluated by myself, a second year student nurse, under supervision from a qualified member of staff.

The text book describes conflict as “a process that begins when one party perceives another party has or is about to negatively affect something the first party cares about.” There are different views on dealing with conflict. There is the traditional view that seeks to eliminate any conflict and the interaction group that seek to use conflict as a stepping stone to greater things. Conflict can arise in any situation and, following the managed conflict view, it is not necessarily something to be push under the table but something to

After further review of the case study, conflict management among team members needs to be addressed. Resolving conflict can often be like a constant balancing act among the opposing needs and interests; conflict can be unpleasant and stressful (Haraway & Haraway III, 2005). Conflict manage is essential for the success of healthcare organizations. Learning, as an organization, to constructively manage and succeed in conflict situations is a foundational construct of leadership and management (Ledlow, 2009). There are six different conflict styles: (1) accommodating, (2) avoiding, (3) collaborating, (4) competing, (5) compromising and (6) problem solving. After reading the case study, the surgical team is displaying conflict style of avoiding “potential disruption outweighs the benefits of resolution, gathering information supersedes immediate decision making, others can resolve the conflict more effectively and issues seem a result of other issues,” (Ledlow, 2009). Instead of going to the Physician Assistant, Nurse B should feel comfortable speaking to the surgeon with her questions and concerns.