Unit One: Role Of The Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse
Unit One: Role of the Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse
Scope of the Problem
How many people ages 15 – 54 had a psychiatric or substance abuse disorder in their lifetime?
Name the top three medical morbidities in the developed world:
How many of the 15 leading causes of disability in developed countries are mental problems?
25% affected in a year
1 in 5 children in U.S.
18 million in U.S. have problem with etoh
23 million in U.S. use illicit drugs
2/3 of nursing home residents
30% jails hold people but not charged with crime
Why Treatment?
2 Panic
3 Bipolar
4 Major Depression
5 Schizophrenia
6 Angioplasty: 41 % …show more content…
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Objective 3: Identify how nursing knowledge of cultural diversity affects the role of the nurse as provider and manager of care.
- Describe the term “competent caring”.
Competent Caring (see box 1-4 page 9)
Three domains of practice of psychiatric nurses
4 Direct care
6 Communication
8 Management
Other types of psychiatric nurse activities:
▪ Biopsychosocial
Scope of the Problem
How many people ages 15 – 54 had a psychiatric or substance abuse disorder in their lifetime?
Name the top three medical morbidities in the developed world:
How many of the 15 leading causes of disability in developed countries are mental problems?
25% affected in a year
1 in 5 children in U.S.
18 million in U.S. have problem with etoh
23 million in U.S. use illicit drugs
2/3 of nursing home residents
30% jails hold people but not charged with crime
Why Treatment?
2 Panic
3 Bipolar
4 Major Depression
5 Schizophrenia
6 Angioplasty: 41 % …show more content…
. .
Objective 3: Identify how nursing knowledge of cultural diversity affects the role of the nurse as provider and manager of care.
- Describe the term “competent caring”.
Competent Caring (see box 1-4 page 9)
Three domains of practice of psychiatric nurses
4 Direct care
6 Communication
8 Management
Other types of psychiatric nurse activities:
▪ Biopsychosocial