Role of Nurse in Community Mental Health
ROLE OF NURSE IN COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH
INTRODUCTION
The trend in psychiatric care is shifting from that of inpatient hospitalization to a focus of outpatient care within the community. Community mental health services include all those activities in the community connected with mental health other than the institutional or hospitalized setting. The community approach focuses on the total population of defined geographical area rather than individual patient. Emphasis is mainly on preventive services which include provision of a continuous, comprehensive system of services designed to meet all mental health related needs in the community. Mental health care is provided. through education, consultation, brief psychotherapy, crisis intervention and follow up care.
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
Community mental health nursing is the application of knowledge of psychiatric nursing in Preventing, promoting and maintaining, mental health of the people and to help in early diagnosis and care and to rehabilitate the clients after mental illness.
Goals of Community Mental Health Nursing
* To provide preventive activities to population and communities for the purpose of promoting mental health and securing participation in self help activities. (Primary prevention). * To provide opportunities for interventions as early as possible when families, special groups and communities' experiences stress, tension and lack of organization that affects their abilities to handle affairs of daily living and to work in satisfying and effective ways (secondary prevention. * To provide corrective learning experiences for clients, groups who have deficits and disabilities in the basic competencies needed to cope in society and to help individuals to develop a sense of selfworth and independence (tertiary prevention.). * To anticipate when population become at risk for particular emotional problems and to identify and change social and psychological factors that
INTRODUCTION
The trend in psychiatric care is shifting from that of inpatient hospitalization to a focus of outpatient care within the community. Community mental health services include all those activities in the community connected with mental health other than the institutional or hospitalized setting. The community approach focuses on the total population of defined geographical area rather than individual patient. Emphasis is mainly on preventive services which include provision of a continuous, comprehensive system of services designed to meet all mental health related needs in the community. Mental health care is provided. through education, consultation, brief psychotherapy, crisis intervention and follow up care.
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
Community mental health nursing is the application of knowledge of psychiatric nursing in Preventing, promoting and maintaining, mental health of the people and to help in early diagnosis and care and to rehabilitate the clients after mental illness.
Goals of Community Mental Health Nursing
* To provide preventive activities to population and communities for the purpose of promoting mental health and securing participation in self help activities. (Primary prevention). * To provide opportunities for interventions as early as possible when families, special groups and communities' experiences stress, tension and lack of organization that affects their abilities to handle affairs of daily living and to work in satisfying and effective ways (secondary prevention. * To provide corrective learning experiences for clients, groups who have deficits and disabilities in the basic competencies needed to cope in society and to help individuals to develop a sense of selfworth and independence (tertiary prevention.). * To anticipate when population become at risk for particular emotional problems and to identify and change social and psychological factors that
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