Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Eve Karpinski, AHN-BC

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Welcome to Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

• Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
• Eve Karpinski, AHN-BC, RN-BC

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Question 1

• How do you put a giraffe into a refrigeration?

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Question 2

• How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?

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Question 3

• The Lion King is hosting an animal conference.
  All the animals attend except oneWhich animal
  does not attend?

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Question 4

• There is a river you must cross but it is
  inhabited by crocodiles, and you do not have a
  boat. How do you manage it?

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Nurses Role

• Florence Nightingale wrote, Only nature heals it
  is the nurse role to put the patient in the best
  environment for healing to take place.
• Psychiatric-mental health nursing a core mental
  health profession, employs a purposeful use of
  self as its art and a wide range of nursing,
  psychosocial, and neurobiological theories and
  research evidence as its science.

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Expectation

• Be prepared for class discussion.
• Only one person talks at a time.
• Journaling
• Complete a mental and physical health assessment
• Develop a nursing care plan from the assessment,
  oral presentation.
• SOAP notes each clinical experience.
• If you are going to miss clinical or be late for
  a clinical day, please call me on my cell phone.
  If you have questions or concerns please e-mail
  me.

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Expectation

• What expectation do you have for me?

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Introduction to Psychiatric Mental Health
Nursing

• Why do you think it is important to study
  psychiatric nursing?
• In the United States, mental illnesses is the
  nations second leading cause of disability, and
  mental illness has been classified as a public
  health crisis.
• You will encounter people with mental illnesses
  in inpatient, outpatient, medical-surgical
  settings, intensive care units, emergency
  departments, obstetrics, and pediatrics.
• Your mental health nursing skills will help you
  think critically and creatively as they empower
  clients by helping them restore their sense of
  value, strength, and ability to cope with life.

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10 Leading Causes of Disability in the World
(WHO, 1997)

• Unipolar Depression
• Iron-deficiency Anemia
• Falls
• Alcohol Use
• COPD
• Bipolar disorder
• Congenital anomalies
• Osteoarthritis
• Schizophrenia
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder

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• 4.7
• 3.3
• 3.1
• 4.6
• 3.0
• 2.9
• 2.8
• 2.6
• 2.2

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Suicide

• Suicide is a serious public health challenge that
  has not received the attention and degree of
  national priority it deserves. Centers for
  Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data
  indicate that in 1999 there were 29,199 deaths
  from suicide in that year, there were more than
  152,000 hospital admissions for self-harming
  behaviors, and more than 700,000 visits to
  hospital emergency rooms for similar problem. It
  also is noteworthy that suicide was the third
  leading cause of death among youth aged 10-14,
  third among those 15-24, second among those 25-34
  years, and fourth among those 35-44 years. While
  there are about twice as many deaths from suicide
  each year as from AIDS, spending on suicide
  research and prevention was approximately 40
  million compared to 3.2 billion for HIV/AIDS
  research and prevention.

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The Importance of self-awareness

• So how does that make you feel?
• What are you thinking?
• Why you are keeping a Journal

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Questions?