Provide a definition of the concept of assessment in mental health nursing and show your understanding of what and how we assess, including risk.
Essay Structure
Follow the guidance below in structuring your work and use the suggested headings as a means of ensuring that you cover all the areas of information that are required in a balanced manner.
Introduction: An introduction to the assignment is required at the start. You should clearly signpost the reader to the key themes to be discussed in the essay. Ensure that you adhere to The Code on confidentiality (NMC 2018) throughout.
Biography: The biography should provide a brief outline of your case studys personal experience of their background and life events. Avoid making assumptions or judgements about the service user (250 words).
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Assessing the needs of the service user:
Given the word count, please identify only two needs in this section of the service user although we acknowledge that some service users may have multiple or complex needs.
Provide a definition of the concept of assessment in mental health nursing and show your understanding of what and how we assess, including risk.
Consider our professional role and responsibilities in mental health assessment, and how service users might experience our services, within the wider legal and ethical context of care provision.
Discuss how the service user you have identified was engaged in the assessment. Consideration should be given to biological, psychological, and social aspects that might have might contributed to their mental health problems and presenting needs.
Examine how principles of recovery were used during the engagement and assessment of the service user.
Discuss how interpersonal skills were used to help provide person-centred care for the service user, supported by the wide body of literature on communication in mental health nursing.
(Suggested: 1500 words)
Planning care for the service user:
Define and show your understanding of the concept of care planning. Focus on how mental health nurses work with people in a way that values, respects and explores the ways that service users experience their mental health condition.
Discuss how care was planned for the service user you have identified and consider how this was linked to the principles of recovery. Describe and analyse how the collaborative care plan that was devised, was able to support and address their needs.
Identify and evaluate evidence-based interventions and provide rationale(s) for the choice of specific interventions. Refer to relevant policy guidance and frameworks to demonstrate an awareness of these interventions and their efficacy, to link theory and practice.
Consider the extent of service users/carers/other professionals (multidisciplinary, multi-agency) involvement in selecting interventions.
(Suggested: 1300 words)
Conclusion: Provide a summary of what you have discussed in the assignment (Suggested: 200 words).
References: Included a complete reference list of all the sources used in the assignment and correctly formatted according to the ARU Harvard system (Harvard ReferencingLinks to an external site.).
Appendices: The appendices should include the care plans. Each appendix should include a care plan for a different need/ goal. Use a consistent format for the care plans and present them in the order in which they are discussed in the text of the assignment.
Wordcount: State the wordcount of your essay at the end.
MY NOTES
[case study/assignment notes ]
[assignment guidelines ]
· Assessment tools be clear on the (assessment guidelines that I am following)
· Discussion should be evidence based with person centred care- include that withing formulation of the care plan. The application of person-centred care (what the person wants what they need i.e. what goals they have and how they would like to reach that)
· Recovery principles (Do not write to aid their recovery- does not make sense)
· Make it evident that there is an element of collaboration with the individual.
· Canvas session one recovery principles- mention how some of the recovery principles are being applied in my case study week 1 sep 13th and week 2
· Include the fact that nurses work with a part of a wider mdt they would have included i.e.. Perry would have had talks with the doctor’s psychologist and a community care co
· Lived experience- how that person experiences their condition. This is where individuality comes in
· Vaguely talk about models nursing model but
· Reflecting on real life practice
· Explore the element of risk- pick a particular risk, explain the concept of risk, and consider our professional role within assessment.
· Presenting patients perspective what does the patient say. Has capacity
· Discuss how the service user was engaged- the patient’s involvement, building a rapport getting to know the patient care
should be centred around engagement and communication. What are the interpersonal skills communication verbally, nonverbally i.e. body language (demonstrate how one is communicating) ie perry said perry expressed what is the context of the communication.
· Be more analytical when writing
· Not describing the condition in the biography, just mentioning who they are i.e. perry is currently a 54-year-old person with a diagnosis of schizophrenia diagnosed with his condition at age 30 and had been know
· No sub-headings unless it is between assessment and care planning
· Interpersonal relationships within assessment- values and engagement with the individual while carrying out assessment empathetic care attempting person centredness
· Identifying risk and capacity what is beneficial to their recovery
· Elements of therapeutic engagement and importance of therapeutic relations
· How to conduct an assessment the interview techniques used and observation, (look at the tidal model in terms of building a therapeutic relationship)
· The partnership and the way the nurse works with the patient
· Important to show perry that I was interested and valued his personal journey
· Talk about how I first started to engage with perry i.e. asking him how he found it being on the ward if he feels like he has been getting the support he needs
· Roger’s principles * positive non-judgemental (treating and individual as an I dividual rather than an illness)
· Ie I used open ended questions to… when talking about communication
· Need to define what care planning is and the way service users experience care planning and then discuss how you sat with the patient and put together a care plan and how it was linked to person centred recovery also need to reflect the patient and interventions should be evidence based. Look at the trust care plan policy expectations when care planning.
· Care plan must make it look like the patient is being empowered for their care.
