The most important recovery strategy a nurse can provide to a psychosis patient such as ben, is making a nursing care plan; without a NCP risks could be existing, discharge planning for bens future would not be foreseen, and a thorough evaluation of bens condition would not be present, meaning areas in which ben needs implementations would be missed and the outcome is less positive than that with a care plan. One area in which NCPs might be useful is in the assessment of clinical risk factors such as risk of self harm or dangerous behavior, and for setting in place supervision procedures aimed at reducing the occurrence of such behaviors, statistical predictors of suicide in psychiatric patients are well described (Neilson 2006). Bens psychotic
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As ben is in the hospital setting under a compulsory client he is most likely very anxious and not cooperating with nurses to the best of his ability, as he is not in this hospital setting in his own will. Patient and nursing communication is vital in this situation to get Ben to come to turns of why he is in this hospital settings and communicating to him that it will help him. Nurses need to gain bens trust so that ben is comfortable in telling us the information needed to understand his condition; such as what substances ben has been using, how long has he been using them, is there any other side effects or problems and many more questions which nurses need to know, ben is the only person with this knowledge so building a relationship with him is most apparent. Not only the relationship will help nurses understand bens condition, the relationship will help ben in various ways; If the nurse–patient relationship develops well it can play a large part in sustaining the patient in the face of emotional difficulties (Moyle 2006). In mental health nursing especially a relationship between the nurse and the patient is vital. It is the initial intervention to encourage knowledge and development and to support ben to get through problems which may arise. However, (Shattell, Starr and Thomas 2007) states that a therapeutic relationship for persons with mental illness requires in-depth personal knowledge, which is acquired only with time, understanding, and skill. Although therapeutic relationships are vital for patient improvements; it is said that good relationships between nurses and patient require skill from nurses which is learnt over time and not something you can just learn from the books. Another tricky position of therapeutic relationship is knowing how close to get to the patient; The relationship that blurs the boundaries between professionalism and friendship is
As ben is in the hospital setting under a compulsory client he is most likely very anxious and not cooperating with nurses to the best of his ability, as he is not in this hospital setting in his own will. Patient and nursing communication is vital in this situation to get Ben to come to turns of why he is in this hospital settings and communicating to him that it will help him. Nurses need to gain bens trust so that ben is comfortable in telling us the information needed to understand his condition; such as what substances ben has been using, how long has he been using them, is there any other side effects or problems and many more questions which nurses need to know, ben is the only person with this knowledge so building a relationship with him is most apparent. Not only the relationship will help nurses understand bens condition, the relationship will help ben in various ways; If the nurse–patient relationship develops well it can play a large part in sustaining the patient in the face of emotional difficulties (Moyle 2006). In mental health nursing especially a relationship between the nurse and the patient is vital. It is the initial intervention to encourage knowledge and development and to support ben to get through problems which may arise. However, (Shattell, Starr and Thomas 2007) states that a therapeutic relationship for persons with mental illness requires in-depth personal knowledge, which is acquired only with time, understanding, and skill. Although therapeutic relationships are vital for patient improvements; it is said that good relationships between nurses and patient require skill from nurses which is learnt over time and not something you can just learn from the books. Another tricky position of therapeutic relationship is knowing how close to get to the patient; The relationship that blurs the boundaries between professionalism and friendship is