Clinical Guidelines and Standards Nurses must be aware of the many organizations and agencies that affect their role in the health-care field. These organizations operate on local, state, and federal levels. It is imperative that nurses know the rules and…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: As a specialty practice area, psychiatric-mental health nursing requires a skill set specific to client needs. The American Nurses Association sets standards for all nursing practice, which…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: Recovery is the emergence from a stressful state, incorporating self-care ability, and attempting to reach one’s full potential. As a model of care, recovery has been applied…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: The nursing process is a systematic framework used by nurses to deliver client-centered care. It consists of six essential steps: recognize cues from assessment data, analyze cues…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) provides a taxonomy, or system of classification, and diagnoses of mental disorders. According to the American Psychiatric…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: A range of governing entities oversees nurses, as health-care professionals, in order to ensure that they are complying with the required standards of practice; these standards may…
Figure 13.1 The etiology of psychological and mental health disorders can be multifaceted, ranging from genetic and biological to environmental; often, specific causes are a combination of the types of factors or remain a mystery. (credit: “National Nurses Week: Capt. Stephanie Smiddy”…
Client Representation for Empowerment and Relationship Rebuilding Nurses play a role in client advocacy, particularly in circumstances where clients are unable to adequately represent themselves, or have the legal designation of diminished responsibility. Nurses should be aware of the civil…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: The ANA Code of Ethics defines one of the roles of a nurse as client advocate. In general terms, advocacy is supporting a cause or proposal; in nursing, advocacy for individual…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: Mental health clients enter treatment for various reasons, and it is important to remember that treatment is done with or alongside a client, not to a client.…