The aim of this essay is to discuss health and maximizing the health and well being of a client with mental health problems. Factors, which can enhance the health and social well being of the client, such as anxiety management and relaxation therapy, will be identified; the role of the nurse in the promotion of the health and social well being of the client will be described. The client concerned attends a day hospital for elderly individuals with mental health problems. For reasons of confidentiality the client will be referred to under the pseudonym of Mr. Smith. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC, 2002) have implemented The Code of Professional Conduct in order to protect the public and states in clause five that " As a registered nurse or midwife, you must protect confidential information" (NMC, 2002, p.7). The maximization of Mr. Smith's health will be discussed and the techniques used at the day hospital to implement this will also be discussed.
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[...] Rhonda (1998) asserts that patient education is now viewed as an integral part of high quality health care and that it is vital that patient's understand their rights and choices, especially for the elderly, because as a professional nurse one cannot discriminate between individuals and assume that because the patient is old they do not need to know what is happening to them and treat them as children. The nurse at the day hospital constructed a care plan with input from the multi-disciplinary team, the client and his wife, which included the following points for the treatment of Mr. [...]
[...] The therapy and interventions offered by the day hospital, the outreach workers and his family have definitely improved the mental health of Mr. Smith, however as Mr. Smith himself says this is an ongoing process and improvements are gradual in the mental health field. References. Andrews, G. and Jenkins, R. (Eds.) (1999). Management of Mental Disorders. U.K. Edition. Sydney: World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Mental Health and Substance Abuse. Borrill, J. (2000). All About Anxiety. London: Mental Health Foundation. [...]
[...] They also advocate that different individuals are more likely to hold different views of health and may operate with several conflicting views simultaneously. They also suggest that social class; gender, ethnic origin and occupation will affect the individual's concept of health (Naidoo and Wills, 2000). The focus of this essay is the maximizing of Mr. Smith's health. Naidoo and Wills (2000) describe maximizing health as plan of action for individuals to become aware of health and re-model their attitudes, which includes increasing insight of health topics relating to all health, the provision of knowledge, influencing an individual's social behavior regarding their health and supplying individuals with the competence to make changes. [...]
[...] Smith's care was present along with Mr. Smith himself, his wife, son and daughter and the student nurse. On evaluation of Mr. Smith at this review it was concluded that his mood had lifted and he had not revealed to anyone that he intended self-harm. One concern that the outreach worker had was that Mr. Smith remained in bed when not attending the day hospital. However, the outreach noted that Mr. Smith's mood was lifted and the incidents of crying had stopped and was pleased with the progress that was made in Mr. [...]
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