Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing
• Psychiatric Nurses
• Neurological Nursing

Psychiatric Nursing:

Psychiatric nursing is a special field of nursing practice, taking care of individuals with a mental health disorder to help them recover and progress their quality of life. Advanced knowledge valuations are provided by the Psychiatric nurses and treatment of psychiatric disorders helps them to provide good care. They works along with other health professionals in medical team and aims in providing many clinical outcomes for the patient as any age of people can be affected by the mental illness, ethnic origin, or socioeconomic status. Therefore, a psychological nurse have to figure with various individuals from various backgrounds. Their basic role is to provide care to patients with a psychiatric disorder, mental health issue, or behavioural problems. Moreover, psychological nurses prefer to specialize further, like within the management of people with a psychiatric disorder of a particular age or association. The PMH nurse build-ups a nursing analysis and plan of consideration, executing the nursing procedure, and assesses it for viability.

Mental Health Nursing:

Mental health nursing care for  patients with  mental health disorder to help them recover and progress their quality of life. Some of the disorders cared by Mental health nurses are:

• Anxiety disorders, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and phobias
• Depression, bipolar disorder, and other mood disorders
• Eating disorders
• Personality disorders
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Psychotic disorders, schizophrenia

A mental health nurse is performs assessment and evaluation of the patient’s mental health, analyse and develop the treatment care plan, discussion with other health professionals about treatment plan, maintenance of medical records,  support and educate the patients and their family members.