Community 14

Psychiatric Care and Mental Health in the Community

Review the attached Power Point presentation. Once done answer the following questions;

1. What challenges have you encountered in working with patients with mental health issues? How do you feel these challenges will be different in a community health setting? Would it be easier or more difficult and why?

2. Discuss scenarios in which the community health nurses might encounter ethical issues related to mental health. Give some examples and explain.

As stated in the syllabus present your assignment in an APA format, word document, Arial 12 font attached to the forum in the discussion tab of the discussion board title “week 14 discussion questions”. You must used at least 2 evidence based references no older than 5 years besides the class textbook. A minimum of 500 excluding the first and references page are required.
Chapter 27 Psychiatric Care and Mental Health in the Community

The Unique Role and Perspective of Psychiatric–Mental Health

Engages in therapeutic use of self

Presence

Self-reflection

Nursing in Caring for the Public’s Health

Demographic changes

Patterns of disease

Methods of control and prevention of health problems

Wellness focus

Definition of Mental Health

Mental health involves connection of body, mind, and spirit, in mental and physical wholesomeness.

History of Mental Health in the Community

Early humanitarian reform in mental health

Community mental health reform in the 1960s

History and Spirit of Psychiatric–Mental Health Nursing in the Community

State of the science of psychiatric–mental health nursing

Levels of psychiatric–mental health nursing practice

Basic-level function

Advanced-level function

Individuals and Population Groups Needing Psychiatric–Mental Health Services

Loss, death, separation

Crisis

Anxiety

Depression

Illness—acute and chronic

Stress and coping

Teens

Individuals and Population Groups Needing Psychiatric–Mental Health Services (cont.)

Victims of violence

American families

Elderly population

Models for Psychiatric–Mental Health Nursing Practice

Public health model

Primary care model

Primary mental health care model

Using reflection in nursing education and practice

Using a phenomenological perspective:

Understanding the public’s mental health lived experience, one person at a time