Introduction
This paper is aimed at addressing the 4 key terms glossary, selected, which are suitable in a mental health unit. The 4 key words have the following; empathy, informed consent, resilience and continuity of care. These 4 key words have reflected many times in my previous works as an assistant nurse, with ACT agents known as Rubies Nursing ACT. In this role, I have cared for both moderate and highly mentally ill patients at the ageing facilities and in the hospital facilities. However, as a nurse it was vital that I applied the central knowledge of the 4 key terms of being empathetic, obtaining Informed Consent, showing Resilience, and providing Continuity of care to all patients. There were many more …show more content…
Subsequently, as a commencing student in such a role of caring for patients in the mental health sector, the need to be able to deal with the challenges of daily organisational change, such that it was important for me tend to all the requirements of the patients. I did this by using a thorough and wholehearted approach of initially evaluating, planning and assessing each and every patient’s physical and mental symptoms before seeing their physicians for further implementation. As a nursing student, it is vital to be able to recognise changes in a patient’s symptoms and take appropriate action whilst communicating this to all relevant medical staff for each individual patient. Furthermore, as an active nursing student in the mental health unit, it is critical that one should be able to display all the 4 key terms outlined in the Glossary. The eventual aim of the Mental Health Care Nurse is to use their abilities to their utmost with careful and methodical planning, so as to ensure that all 4 key Glossary terms are adhered …show more content…
However, because a continuity of care can be created and read by any electronic medical record software system. The continuity of care, is a standard for the creation of electronic summaries of patient health. Its aim is to improve the quality of health care and to reduce medical errors by making information readily available to physicians. Continuity of care is regarded as an essential attribute of good health care, which leads to better health outcomes, especially in the context of primary health care. A major weakness of this measure is that the content of care is neglected. Continuity of care has become an important aim of health policy and service delivery as well as a key criterion for service evaluation. Nevertheless, policy solutions are likely to remain elusive without clear definitions, due to it being generally agreed that the concept has lacked systematic definition as emphasise (Crawford et al.,