Nursing is a vocation whose role is to provide the patient with utmost care, treatment, and maintenance of health. Nurses are tasked with having a highly developed awareness, knowledge, and ability to recognize physical, mental and emotional symptoms of the patient, based on their cultural and religious background. Community psychiatric nurses, whose duty was initially to assist with primary health care, included additional practices such as counseling and cognitive-behavioural work (Munt, 2012), imperative for addressing issues that pertained specifically to a special group of women refugees and new migrants and their mental health and well-being. Nurses are also responsible for creating a comforting physical, psychological, and social environment
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This was also crucial for the growth and progress of psychiatric nursing as a fully recognized and independent profession involved also in the social field of nursing practice. It served as an incentive for future nursing research on the transpersonal, altruistic principles and the main incentive for good communication, cooperation, and high-quality care (Chinn & Kramer, 2013) in specific cases such as women refugees and new migrants from traditionalist African …show more content…
At that time, however, they did not rely on expert medical diagnosis, but the unique role of a nurse in meeting basic human needs (Leininger, 2006), after which it finally encompassed health care and social welfare support, health education and nursing care at home, and the control and prevention of various physical and mental diseases. As a new dimension of care for the mentally ill, in the context of psychiatry as a scientific discipline, and to improve psychiatric care and treatment, psychiatrists accepted trained staff to look after the mentally ill, which is how nursing as a profession recognized and accepted as an equal member of the medical team in treating mental issues (Baird et al., 2015). Nurses who work with patients suffering from mentally issues apply knowledge and appropriate communication skills, as this aids their ability to imbue therapeutic effectiveness, especially with new migrants from vastly different
This was also crucial for the growth and progress of psychiatric nursing as a fully recognized and independent profession involved also in the social field of nursing practice. It served as an incentive for future nursing research on the transpersonal, altruistic principles and the main incentive for good communication, cooperation, and high-quality care (Chinn & Kramer, 2013) in specific cases such as women refugees and new migrants from traditionalist African …show more content…
At that time, however, they did not rely on expert medical diagnosis, but the unique role of a nurse in meeting basic human needs (Leininger, 2006), after which it finally encompassed health care and social welfare support, health education and nursing care at home, and the control and prevention of various physical and mental diseases. As a new dimension of care for the mentally ill, in the context of psychiatry as a scientific discipline, and to improve psychiatric care and treatment, psychiatrists accepted trained staff to look after the mentally ill, which is how nursing as a profession recognized and accepted as an equal member of the medical team in treating mental issues (Baird et al., 2015). Nurses who work with patients suffering from mentally issues apply knowledge and appropriate communication skills, as this aids their ability to imbue therapeutic effectiveness, especially with new migrants from vastly different