Mental health is the psychological wellbeing, not necessarily the lack of mental illness. Emotions and behavior are functioning well. Mental health is important in every stage of life. One is able to handle stress related to other things and choices. In mental illness, both mood and behavior are altered. The mentally ill persons are taken to mental institutions where they get specialized care by psychiatry doctors and nurses. Mental illness is common this days. It is reversible condition although the drugs given to the patients are for life. This patients are on meds for the rest of their lives. Psychiatric health care workers are trained to detect these illnesses, treat these patients and give them a positive living attitude.
People with mental illness should be treated with respect and dignity (Bockting, et al 2013). This is mostly violated in the community where these people live in. they deserve to be treated like any other person. They should be listened to and cared for. They should be involved in decision making especially in issues that will affect them. They should be respected.
The people with mental health problems should have their privacy protected especially in the health sector. The doctor patient confidentially should be observed. They should have a therapeutic communication with their providers where they can express their feelings with no fear of judgments or being laugh at. What is meant to be private should be kept private so as not to expose their conditions or what they are going through. When exposed it can cause stigmatization and embarrassment to the patient.
Patients with mental illness should understand treatment ways and alternatives. Patients have the right to know why they are given a certain treatment. How the medicines works that is both the benefits and the side effect. The patients should clearly understand the dosage administered to them. The consequences if they don’t comply with the medication regime. Should be advised to take their medications regime seriously
Mentally ill persons should not be discrimination (Bartoll, et al 2014). Health care providers and the community at large should not make them feel unwanted or isolated. They are only mentally unwell. All the other aspects are okay. They are not to be feared as these illness is not communicable. Cannot be transferred by having a conversion with them or even bathing and feeding them.
There are also the rights related to preservation of liberty and personal autonomy. The patients have the right to access any rights protection service and other qualified lawyers. They also have rights towards grievances and they can address it in a timely manner. They have the rights to use voluntary admission ways and receive treatments anytime. The patient can be able to establish directives and also living wills and be involved in decision-making. These patients also are free from any corporal punishments. They can also be able to get legal counsel against any threat of loss or sight. Patients can access their attorney or any legal representative but while under a commitment order. He or she have the right to appeal, have a free transcript of the hearing and also appoint counsel.
Right towards specific consumer needs (Bartoll, et al 2014). One is employment. People with mental illness and have the skill towards a certain field can do the job anywhere hence they should be employed. All human beings need shelter including these patients hence right to housing. These housing means that the patient is entitled to be safe and can have a permanent house of their choice. People suffering from mental illness should have some benefits. These benefits include good payments, have social support and also enjoy the life their want.
There are ways in which dignity can be promoted in mental health care. This can be done by ensuring there is good and effective communication between the two parties. There should be no restraints towards the patient. Dignity can also be promoted when all the human rights are followed strictly. There is the personal centered care. Research says that respecting an individual identity and protecting the individual’s dignity increases the rate of recovery. Safeguarding is also used. This talks about the prevention of abuse in adults. The main reason to do this is to work together always to protect adults from risks. Investigations can also be done to any abuse or any suspected abuse and actions were taken
One of the factors is the biological factors (Rabinowitz, et al 2015). These includes genes of an individual and also the chemistry. Brain chemistry is the sum of all chemical messaging that takes place in one’s brain. It allows the brain to carry out its daily functions like listening, thinking and controlling the system of the body.
Life experiences are also a contributing factor. This life experiences mostly includes challenges that affect the human brains of an individual. This may include trauma or abuse. When a person is abused he or she suffers mentally because he or she suffers stress and depression. When this depression is not dealt with at an early stage it can lead to health problems of an individual.
Another factor is the family history of mental health problems. This means that it is hereditary hence passed from one family member to another one hence very critical issues.
There are various signs that one can see and know that one is being affected by mental health problems. These may include eating or sleeping too much. Some start pulling away from other people or relating to other people as usual. There also the reduction in energy or energy loss. The people start having unexplained aches and also feeling hopeless and helpless. They also start hearing voices and believing things that are not true which is most known and common.
There also exists the positive part of mental health. It allows people to see their full potential and be able to cope with stress. One is able to work very well in life and make meaningful contributions to their way of living.
They should care for patients (Rabinowitz, et al 2015). Holistic care. It means that they should build relationships between them and the people that are affected by mental health problems. When these relationships are established, these people will feel appreciated and loved. This will reduce the depression these people get because they feel surrounded by people who love and care for them. The nurses should be able to respond to their parents in term of physical and emotional needs and at the same time, they should deliver effective care to the patients.
Another role for the nurses is to ensure patients drugs are administered very well. This includes giving the medication at the correct time using the correct procedures. When the treatment is done at the right time using the right procedures then the mental illness will reduce at a very fast rate. The patients should be followed up to ensure he takes the treatment according to the dosage because patients may forget or be ignorance.
The nurses should prepare and maintain patient’s records. When records are kept, it will be easy to come up with plans on how to administer dosage. The nurse can be able to know how to do follow-ups by knowing the locations of these patients. The nurses will be able to know the degree of the illness in every specific person hence give different attentions to most people who are affected most. The nurses will be able to produce care plans and risk assessment for every patient affected by mental illness.
The nurses can come up with group therapy sessions (Rabinowitz, et al 2015). These include social events for providing recovery. These sessions should be done regularly because it is not a onetime thing. These sessions are very important since they will educate the people affected on identifying the symptoms, causes of mental illness and on how to solve all this. This will play a very important role since the patient will feel safe and they will contribute to their own wellbeing.
Helping the patients deal with symptoms of illness and helping in terms of stress and challenges. Nurses understand a patient very well hence they can be able to form meetings with patients to come up with strategies on the ways to solve this issue. One of the major cause of the mental illness is stress and when dealt with in the correct manner it will reduce the number of occurrence of mental illness. Challenges affecting these people can be a major cause still. These challenges include lack of funds and food, family issues and others. Funds are used to cater for everything hence a solution can be given out on providing jobs to these people so as to have their daily needs.
The nurses should also focus on the facts only. The meaning of these is that the nurses should not focus on the myths regarding medical health problems but focus on the knowledge they have towards the matter. Nurses are well trained hence when giving the treatments they should have one thing in mind that mental health is treatable hence should not fear. The nurses should make sure they are well prepared for this type of job mostly psychologically since it is not easy so that they can be able to do the job perfectly. The nurses working with the patients should at least have a working experience in this field to avoid any complications.
Nurses should choose their words wisely and also have a positive attitude (Corrigan, et al 2014). Everything starts from the attitude. If a nurse has a very negative attitude towards people with mental illness, he or she is not fit for the job. In order to advise this patient one needs to be in their shoes in order to help them. It needs a lot of understanding. When a nurse is talking to a person with mental illness he or she should choose he or she uses very wisely. Use of negative language can badly affect the patient hence discouraging him or her which can lead to many negative effects like death due to desperation.
Nurses should focus on the positive and support these people (Bor, et al 2014). There are many negative talks about the people with the mental disorder but all the same as a health official one should see the positive side in every manner so as to remain to the point. The nurses should find the ways possible to find the solution to support this person in terms of advice, drugs usage and how to deal with people who discriminate them as an example.
Education is very important. Nurses have background knowledge on this area hence got a wide knowledge towards it (Clement, et al 2015). The organization of nurses should form a scheme where they will be passing knowledge to patients of mental health problems and the people living with them. This will greatly help the people living with these people will have hints on how to cope with these people and also ways of administering the drugs. They will be equipped with knowledge on what should be eaten and which drugs are the best for the kind of illness each individual is suffering from. The patient will also learn on how to take care of themselves and also feel encouraged at the end of the seminar
Mental illness affects friends and families (De Los Reyes, et al 2015). It can be very difficult to live with a loved one who is diagnosed with the mental illness such as panic disorder and such. Some are very serious mental illness and the patient’s acts as a liability to the family and friends. The patient can also be a person who brings fights and chaos to the family hence will be very hard to manage and handle. The friends and family can at some point feel shy towards having them in the family.
There is also the emotional challenge part (Donker, et al 2013). When a person in the family suffers from a serious mental illness it brings some suspicion among the parents too. It may not be necessary that this illness comes from the parent’s lineage but they will always feel shame and embarrassed in front of people during this kind of situation. There are also the other people involved like the family members. They may be angry towards the patient if he or she mishandles things or issues in public.
Parents have hopes and big hopes for every child their bear (Ferguson, et al 2015). The child from the beginning even before birth is played for to bring a change in the family. When mental illness happens to get to the child then all these ambitions are buried to the ground. The parents feel remorseful and discouraged a lot since all the expectations are gone and gone for good.
Another challenge is to partners where one of them is diagnosed with a serious mental illness (Erosheva, et al 2014). This will add problems to a relationship and make it more complex than ever. One partner will clearly have a very big burden in order to keep the other in the order in the house. The ill partner will fail to give important decisions, some illness will make the partner be always dirty and other side effects. There can also be rumors that the other partner can be the one who have made the other partner ill hence stressing him or her more. The one partner will be spending most of his or her time taking care of the ill partner instead of using that time to benefit economically. The one partner will use a lot of money in making sure the ill partner is well. This will be very great challenges even to the nurses to give advice on this issue.
This should start from the health sector (Gilli, et al 2013). The nurses should understand how the patients live then there should be at the forefront to be the people who give motivation to these patients. They should show a lot of compassion to the patients. This should be seen from the actions, not just words. The whole organization should have followed up programs where they reach out to these patients and provide to them. They can give them food and other things to use and they would have touched every life hence being the best enablers at first (Reiss, ET AL 2013).
The community should also be in the area of creating a positive perspective about the issue of mental health problems (Gu, ET AL 2015). They main aim should not be destroying families by passing rumors all through but they should have their own initiative where they can really help the people with mental health problems by providing to them the important necessities which should be in use. They can also find a place where they can situate this person and invite medical health workers to attend to them on what they need.
Family and friends also should be part of the enablers (Thoits, ET AL 2013). They are the immediate people that are surrounding this patient. They should always be compassionate and give to their best to ensure that these people feel at home always. They should always encourage this person because they will still remain to their people no matter what hence they should admit to it. They should provide foods as if it is the normal person at home and also any other necessity needed by the patients like drugs to use as an example.
The government can also act as enablers (Wang, ET AL 2014). They can do these by building centers where the people with mental illness are brought to the center. These centers should be situated in all parts of the country and give free services like advice and free drugs to all patients. The government can also set aside capital to cater for this people. The thing they should consider are foods, any expenses towards the obligations of the person to the family he or she belongs to so that all things in the family go smoothly.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, mental health patients are also the human being and they should be treated like one. All their rights and the human rights must be followed strictly to ensure that they live in a conducive environment. The nurses have a very great role of serving these patients and they should be really good at it. There a lot of challenges dealing with this issue but the best solution is only to have a positive attitude towards these patients with mental illness.
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