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NRSG210 intro MHN Lwk 1 - Lecture notes 1
Mental Health Nursing (Australian Catholic University)
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NRSG210- MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
WEEK ONE-
Mental illness-
A health problem that affects how a person feels/thinks/behaves or interacts with other people
Its diagnosed according to standardised criteria
Mental health-
“A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease”
Models of care-
A model of healthcare is a system that’s been formally developed to organise/guide the way which health
professionals deliver healthcare within a particular setting
Influences of a medical model include:
Frameworks for diagnosis
Treatment decisions
Illness/disease driven model
Clinical leadership
Focus for pharmacological research
Current perspectives-
Recovery principles:
Being able to live a meaningful life in a community with or without the presence of mental health issues
Real choices Shows dignity and respect
Aware of attitudes and right Partnership and communication
Consumer lived experience:
Individuals who define their own experiences in recovering from a mental health disease
Recovery cant be “done” to/for someone with a mental health disease by a health professional
Reshaping of one’s personal identity through a holistic sense of self that includes psychiatric disability
Family and carer lived experience:
Understanding a lived experience through a person who has lived through the same/similar experience
A person who hasn’t had the experience cant know what it ‘feels like’
Recovery-
Traditional concepts of mental illness- Contemporary concepts of mental illness-
Degenerative, life long and permanently Recovery isn’t a straightforward process
disabling Treatment in the community is best-practice
Medication is the focus of recovery (a method that’s accepted due to results)
A diagnosis of mental illness doesn’t link to Practitioners recognize the need of balance
successful, independent living b/w reducing symptoms with acceptable
Individuals are compliant recipients of care medication regimes
Inability to return to premorbid levels of
functioning doesn’t conclude failure
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NRSG210 intro MHN Lwk 1 - Lecture notes 1
Mental Health Nursing (Australian Catholic University)
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NRSG210- MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
WEEK ONE-
Mental illness-
A health problem that affects how a person feels/thinks/behaves or interacts with other people
Its diagnosed according to standardised criteria
Mental health-
“A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease”
Models of care-
A model of healthcare is a system that’s been formally developed to organise/guide the way which health
professionals deliver healthcare within a particular setting
Influences of a medical model include:
Frameworks for diagnosis
Treatment decisions
Illness/disease driven model
Clinical leadership
Focus for pharmacological research
Current perspectives-
Recovery principles:
Being able to live a meaningful life in a community with or without the presence of mental health issues
Real choices Shows dignity and respect
Aware of attitudes and right Partnership and communication
Consumer lived experience:
Individuals who define their own experiences in recovering from a mental health disease
Recovery cant be “done” to/for someone with a mental health disease by a health professional
Reshaping of one’s personal identity through a holistic sense of self that includes psychiatric disability
Family and carer lived experience:
Understanding a lived experience through a person who has lived through the same/similar experience
A person who hasn’t had the experience cant know what it ‘feels like’
Recovery-
Traditional concepts of mental illness- Contemporary concepts of mental illness-
Degenerative, life long and permanently Recovery isn’t a straightforward process
disabling Treatment in the community is best-practice
Medication is the focus of recovery (a method that’s accepted due to results)
A diagnosis of mental illness doesn’t link to Practitioners recognize the need of balance
successful, independent living b/w reducing symptoms with acceptable
Individuals are compliant recipients of care medication regimes
Inability to return to premorbid levels of
functioning doesn’t conclude failure
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