Pivotal Roles of a Mental Health Nurse in the Time of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Sreevani Rentala
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Nurse ◽  
Health Nurse

scholarly journals Joint assessment out of hours: assessing the benefits for patients and junior doctors

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 272-275
Author(s):  
Laura Boyd ◽  
Colin Crawford ◽  
Eugene Wong
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
Out Of Hours ◽  
Assessment Protocol ◽  
Admission Rates ◽  
Mental Health Nurse ◽  
Health Nurse ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Joint Assessment

Aims and methodWe examined the impact of implementing a new Acute Mental Health Emergency Assessment Protocol (AMHEAP) on joint psychiatric assessments out of hours within Forth Valley, Scotland, over the course of 4 calendar months. The protocol states that assessments should be carried out by a junior doctor and a registered, qualified mental health nurse. The impact measures were taken as admission rates and experience of the doctor in training.ResultsIn the 4 months that were examined (1 June–30 September 2011), 79.5% of out-of-hours emergency assessments were performed jointly. Admission rates were significantly decreased (P<0.001) compared with a similar period in 2008, before the AMHEAP protocol was developed. Most junior doctors valued the experience of joint assessment.Clinical implicationsJoint assessment can enhance patient experience, reduce hospital admission, and provide a learning opportunity for junior doctors in emergency psychiatric assessments. However, it represents a move away from the doctor as sole decision maker.

Adapted Mental Health Nurse Physical Health Attitude Scale

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Knight ◽  
Paula Bolton ◽  
Lynne Kopeski
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Mental Health Nurse ◽  
Health Nurse

Nurse, 1 year’s experience, UK

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-37
Author(s):  
Markus Reuber ◽  
Gregg H. Rawlings ◽  
Steven C. Schachter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Epileptic Seizures ◽  
Main Reaction ◽  
Psychological Response ◽  
Mental Health Nurse ◽  
Health Nurse ◽  
The Uk

This chapter describes the experience of a Mental Health Nurse at a tertiary neuroscience unit in the UK. In nearly two years of working at the unit, the nurse has not encountered many patients with non-epileptic seizures. As such, the nurse’s main reaction to these patients is uncertainty. It is very hard for the nurse to understand that a psychological response can produce a seizure. Moreover, the nurse often assumes that all patients with non-epileptic seizures have a personality disorder of some kind. The distrust toward these patients is partly because the nurse has no concept of how the psychological can impinge upon the physical brain, and the driver of the of the nurse’s insensitive inner response to these patients is therefore ignorance of the condition. Thus, the likely solution is to learn more about the diagnosis and do as much background reading as possible in an effort to overcome one’s own ignorance—or at the very least, construct some good counterarguments to deploy against one’s own ignorant thoughts.

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