Subject - Mental Health Nursing and topic is Nature and Scope of Mental health nursing , Presented by Mohammed Haroon Rashid, Basic B.Sc Nursing 3rd Year in Florence College of Nursing

1. PRESENTED BY
Mohammed
Haroon Rashid

2. INTRODUCTION
BARKHA NISHAD 2
 The understanding of human behaviour during the
later part of the 19th centurty.
 Sope of Nursing deals with the promotion of mental
health or previntion of menatla illness.
 The scope of menatal health nursing is a specialized
nursing practice of human behaviour.
 It is a science and the pupose use of diagnose and
treatment of human response or mental health problem

3. DEFINITION
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• Psychiatric Nursing deals with the promotion of
mental health preveniton of mental illness care and
rehabilitation of mentally ill individual bothin
hospital and community.
ACCORDING TO “R.SREEVANI”
• It is a specialized branch of nursing in which the
nurse utilize their personality knowledge related to
psychiatry theory within the available environment
in therapeutic change patient feeling and behaviour.
ACCORDING TO “K.p Neeraja”

4. NATURE OF MANTAL
HEALTH NURSING
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Specialize area of nursing
practice
Maintainance promotion and
restoration of mental health
Psychiatric Nursing both art
and science
Psychiatric nursing include
understanding
It provide service related to Mental
emontional and developmental
problem

5. PHILOSOPHICAL BELIEF
OF PSYCHIATRIC
PRACTICE
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 The individual has intrinsic worth and dignity
and each person is worthy of respect.
 Each person functions as a holistic being who on
interact with and to the environment as a whole
person.
 All behaviour consist of perception thoughts
feeling and action.

6.  The area of concern for the psychiatric mental health include a wide range of
actual or potential mental health problem such as emontional issues.
 To understand the problem and select an appropriate intervention integration of
knowledge from the biological psychological andsocial domain is necessary.
 Today the scope of mental health nurse need to be skilled and clinically competent
sensitive to the social environment the adobacacy needs of the patient and their
families.
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7. TRENDS IN MENTAL
HEALTH NURSING
TRENDS IN HEALTH CARE
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Increase Mental Health problem
Provision for quality & service
Mult i Disciplinary Team Approach
Providing Continuity of Care
Care is provided in Alternative

8. ECONOMIC ISSUES
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9. ECONOMIC ISSUES
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10. ECONOMIC ISSUES
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11. STANDARD OF MENTAL
HEALTH NURSING
 The developmental of srandard for nursing practice
is a begning steps towards the attainment of quality
nursing care.
 The adoption of standard helps to clarity nurses areas
of accountability since the standard provides the
nurse the health agency other professinal patient and
the public with a basis for evaluating practice.
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