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Personal Narrative: My Mental Health Clinical Experience
I recently attend a two-day excursion day for my mental health clinical, and it was a great experience for me. This was an eye-opening experience for me, and I’ve gained a new perspective about mental health. I am now able to better understand mental health and correlate it with the nursing process. One thing I love is studying people, one of my first most influential college classes was sociology. These experiences brought me back to what I love. This experience has taught me to use my knowledge and think differently. I am now able to asses a person, or area of people and a gather data about them. Before this experience my thoughts were mostly planned, or thought out before assessing. Now I understand why using this experience will benefit

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