Psychiatric nursing is a specialty
within nursing. Psychiatric health registered nurses work with individuals,
families, groups, and communities, assessing their mental health needs. The
Psychiatric nursing develops a nursing diagnosis and plan of care, implements
the nursing process, and evaluates it for effectiveness. Psychiatric nursing
offer primary care services to the psychiatric-mental health population,
diagnose, and treat individuals and families with psychiatric disorders or the
potential for such disorders using their full scope of therapeutic skills,
including the prescription of medication and administration of psychotherapy.
Principles of Psychiatric Nursing
- Nursing interventions should center on the client as a
person, not on control of the symptoms. Symptoms are important, but not as
important as the person having them.
- Recognize your own feelings toward clients and deal
with them.
- Go to the client who needs help the most.
- Do not allow a situation to develop or continue in
which a client becomes the focus of attention in a negative manner.
- If client behavior is bizarre, base your decision to
intervene on whether the client is endangering self or others.
- Ask for help—do not try to be a hero when dealing with
a client who is out of control!
- Avoid a highly competitive activity, that is, having
one winner and a room full of losers.
Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing test bank provides
a holistic, biopsychosocial approach to psychiatric nursing care. It follows
the popular Stuart stress-adaptation framework and includes comprehensive
coverage to simplify important nursing and medical concepts, promote quality
and safety in care, and address psychobiology and psychopharmacology topics
integral to today’s psychiatry.
