Some nurses are afraid of working within the mental health department. Needless to say, the program will administer the proper tools to create confident nurses in the workplace, and a team will put together to ensure the provision of safe and high-quality care, direct-care with nurse leadership, collaborating on the development of a program plan, and increasing nurses functioning in the mental health …show more content…
They should also be familiar with the principles such as respect for others, beneficence, and justice; and the causes of unprofessional behavior and a lack of caring. Ethics has also been considered in how communication is relayed amongst new hire nurses, other nurses, the employed staff, and the mental health patients. Defining the respect of the code held in the organization is key to ensuring that ethics is a large part of communication and interaction. In talking to some local mental health professionals, they seem to feel that preceptors need to have effective communication skills that are used to attend to a learners needs, they need to understand the principles if how adults learn to best assess and teach them, they need to have a vast clinical experience to help bridge the gap of necessary skills that are needed to handle mental health patients; They need to understand how to the organization's philosophy, structures, policies, procedures, support systems from managers, unit teachers, peers, and able to share experiences that may occur in mental health that would be useful to the knowledge of the students. They felt these elements need to be present in a preceptor in order