The course of disorder varies such that an individual at Region Ten could be functionally more acute than the individual at the Health Sciences Center inpatient unit. Interventions that promote and foster health, assess dysfunction, assist clients to regain or improve their coping abilities, and prevent further disability. When you consider these, you will quickly realize how much you have to offer as a nursing student in the psychiatric setting. Keep the roles and functions clear. The treatment environment, historically called the milieu, is the purposeful use of people, things and events in the client's immediate environment to facilitate growth and development .
Nursing students become part of that milieu, be it inpatient or outpatient.
You are a part. Often a vital part. Think of the patient as a person, an individual responding to a condition with biological, cognitive and behavioral components. Psychiatric mental health nursing is defined as the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential mental health problems . Administering and monitoring psychobiological treatment regimens Health teaching, Crisis intervention and counseling Outreach activities such as home visits and community action.