- Is the duty that deals with the cognitive and behavioral pattern of functioning of an individual which focuses mainly on the management for those individuals that deviates from the norm
- It involves understanding of human behavior and factors that could affect the individuals
- It is an interpersonal process where the professional nurse practitioner assists the individual, the family, and the community to promote mental health, to prevent or cope with the experience of mental illness and suffering and if necessary to find meaning in those experiences. (Travelbee)
Psychiatric Treatment
- Use of words
- Drugs
- Environment
- Somatic therapies
- Behavioural conditioning
Psychotherapeutic Management
- Psychotherapeutic nurse-patient relationship
- Psychopharmacology
- Milieu management
Psychopathology
- Dealing with emotional responses to stress and crisis
- Satisfying basic needs
- Learning more effective ways of behaving
- Achieving a positive and realistic self-concept
Goals of Communication in Psychiatric Nursing
- To understand the patient
- To ensure that the patient understands the nurse
Things to Remember in Psychiatric Nursing
- There is no such thing as a magic phrase.
- There is no single treatment that can significantly worsen a client’s condition
- Questions involving personal matters should not be the first thing a student says to a client
- Asking sincere and necessary questions is not prying but is therapeutic
- Do not take “refusal” or “rejection” as a personal insult or failure
- Clients hurt themselves more often than they harm others
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