Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

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Psychiatric and mental health nursing is a unique specialty of nursing that strives to promote the mental health of clients. Psychiatric mental health nurses work in partnership with their clients to manage their mental illness. In Canada psychiatric mental health nursing is guided by seven standards of practice, which provide guidance for nursing practice to ensure that safe, competent, and ethical services are delivered to the clients (Canadian Federation of Mental Health Nurses [CFMHN], 2006). Of these standards, standard five, which addresses the nurse intervening through the teaching-coaching function, will be the focus of this paper. The purpose of this paper is to identify standard five from the Canadian Standards of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing (2006), describe five of the indicators within that standard, apply them to clinical practice and reflect on the importance of each indicator through literature.
The Teaching-Coaching Function Standard
The standards of psychiatric and mental health nursing were first developed in 1995 to create a document that would describe the expectations of a mental health nurse. The standards put forth behaviours expected of professional nurses by incorporating vital information and new trends in the field, and linking these to expected outcomes (CFMHN, 2006). The teaching-coaching function standard is of great importance to the mental health field as it promotes nurses to understand the client's individual needs, supports learning related to those needs, and promotes self-reliance in aiding clients and families to acquire greater ease in living with their mental illness and the accompanying effects (Lawlor, n.d.). Such teaching provides the nurses with a chance to make a difference ...

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Canadian Federation of Mental Health Nurses. (2006). Canadian Standards of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. (3rd ed.). Toronto, ON: Author.
College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia. (2007). Nursing Documentation. Retrieved from https://bibliomed.bib.uniud.it/novita/nursing/nursing_documentation.pdf
Kelly, J., Dow, S., Yeterian, J., & Kahler, C. (2010). Can 12-step group participation strengthen and extend the benefits of adolescent addiction treatment? A prospective analysis. Drug & Alcohol Dependence, 110(1-2), 117-125. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2010.02.019
Knutson, M. B., Newberry, S. S., & Schaper, A. A. (2013). Recovery Education: a tool for psychiatric nurses. Journal Of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, 20(10), 874-881. doi:10.1111/jpm.12043
Lawlor, S. (n.d.). Story of the Quilt. Retrieved from http://cfmhn.ca/content/story-quilt

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