Mental health professionals practice active listening and encourage the client to express their feelings. Mental health counselors develop and implement treatment plans based on the client’s physical or mental condition. Client information is collected through interviews, observations or tests which guide counselors in the development of therapeutic information strategies that will help clients deal with their problems by targeting at-risk behaviors which promotes optimum mental and emotional well-being of the client (Erford, 2010). Over the past decade organizations have come to the realization that mental health professionals need to become competent in cross cultural interactions. Competent multicultural mental health professionals play a key role in success of mental health counseling interventions (Connerley & Pederson, 2005).
11/12/2012 Components of a Nursing Care Plan A nursing care plan is a set of guidelines that directs nursing activities for a patient. It details the entire steps needed from beginning to end of a patient’s care. The nursing care plan is also a framework that allows for evaluation of the effectiveness of the plan and it promotes continuity after the patient has left the healthcare facility. The four main components of a nursing care plan are: nursing diagnosis; expected outcomes; interventions; and evaluations. Documentation of the nursing care plan is important in order for the patient to receive proper care.
Trudy would accept this and understand that I was a nurse and I was there to help. Telling her that family member would visit her daily comforted her. I would re-orientate her to her bedroom and wardrobe which had signs with her name and show her the sign on the door of toilet. Although research has shown the efficacy of this approach, it has also been claimed that reality orientation can remind the person with dementia of their deterioration and cause an initial lowering of mood (Goudie & Stokes,
The first three steps in the nursing process having been used, that of evaluation, diagnosis, and planning, the last two areas, implementation and evaluation can then be incorporated. The role reversal strategy, having the patient become the teacher, would enable the nurse to evaluate the patient’s understanding and their ability to recall facts presented.
Assessment Tool Analysis Paper The purpose of this paper is to describe the assessment tools that evaluate on physical measure. The three assessment tools used will be the Daily Hassles Scale, Dysfunctional Attitude Scale, and the Well Being Picture Scale. This writer will apply Watson’s Theory of Human Caring to each of the tools, and how each tool integrates the mind-body-spirit dimensions and the population for which they are useful. This paper will include data such as cost, length, and ease in using each of these tools. It will tell which populations are best designed for each tool, how these tools can enhance the assessment phase of the nursing process, and the impact of quality of health care delivered by the nurse.
*”Mental health counselors work with individuals who are dealing with problems such as drug and alcohol abuse, family conflicts, suicidal thoughts and feelings, stress management, depression, problems with self-esteem, issues of mental and emotional health. *Mental health counselor, Lewis Wheatley, helps Jane deal with her addiction to drugs, and helps her try and get off drugs. He refers her to outside sources when she gets out of the hospital for community groups and sessions that deal with addictions. SLIDE 6 – *Psychologist *Client Jane Rose has committed to her other human service professionals in the hospital that she will meet with her psychologist, Brandi Rees, once a week until she feels that she is safe and stable. Brandi Rees tries to figure out Jane’s mindset and the background of her behavior including her “physical, cognitive, emotional, and social aspects.” (Intro.
Her first point of contact with the emergency department is triage (Farrell, 2005, p.2158). The emergency nurse then needs to determine the clinical urgency of the patient. The emergency nurse would do a primary survey maintaining vital signs and then continue to a secondary survey of the patient, to uncover any other serious threats. The nurse shall then prepare the patient for any diagnostic tests, contact family, make sure pain is under control, monitor and document their findings (Laskowski – Jones, 2006, p.54). A patient presenting with a head injury can pose a lot of complications and the nurse needs to assess and monitor the patient thoroughly.
Describe the elements of a comprehensive health assessment of a geriatric patient. What special considerations should the nurse keep in mind while performing this assessment? Nurses and healthcare professionals need to pay close attention to different things while performing a comprehensive assessment on the older population. The comprehensive assessment includes mental and functional status, social and economic status and the actual assessment of the body functions (Jarvis, 2012). It’s important to observe mental status changes and functional status changes, this can determine how well the patient can take care of themselves and deal with their health promotion on their own.
Paranoid schizophrenia, what must the nurse assess? How do they go about assessing? Upon assessing, how will the nurse manage the outcomes of the assessment? These important questions are what this paper will resolve. Through review of recent literature into the assessment and management of individuals affected by paranoid schizophrenia, this paper will discuss in detail how the nurse goes about assessing the patient, why assessment is vital, common outcomes of the assessment and finally go into detail on how the nurse manages a patient with paranoid schizophrenia.
It takes into account not only the physical health of the patient, but also the patient’s perception of self and his or her ability to function in the community. The psychosocial assessment is used to create a comprehensive picture in order to map out treatment and nursing goals and to have accurate data on the patient’s psychosocial and mental status. Usually it takes the form of a series of questions asked by the health care professionals. Examination of Mental Status Objectives: 1) Define: Mental Status ,Orientation, Level of Consciousness, Memory, Lethargic, Stuporous, Comatose, Glasgow Coma Scale, Stressors, and Abstract Reasoning. 2) State the purpose for evaluating mental status.