Changes in Nursing Care Practice for the Young Mental Patients
The contemporary mental care for young people is quite different from the mental care for the young people offered ten years ago. These changes have mainly resulted from the changes done in the care process aimed at improving the overall care provision for young people faced with mental challenges. This paper Seeks to highlight some of the major changes that have occurred in nursing practices i9n the care for mental children over the last decade.
To start with, the changing environment for in modern hospitals over the last decade necessitated a change in the role of nurses in the care of young people. There have been a number of changes in legislations in order to shape the manner in which nurses deliver their carte to young people faced with mental challenges. There have been a significant increase in the number of psychiatric wards over the last decade which has increased the need for the nurses to enhance teamwork in delivery of care to the young people. Also, the increase in female nurse members has been a critical aspect in nursing practices over the last decade (Adam 16). Today, there has been a significant change in what was perceived to be the influence of the family on the symptoms of young psychiatrists. As a result, there is a shift of the symptoms from being causative as perceived in the past to being therapeutic as is perceived in the contemporary nursing practices. Unlike in ten years ago where the families of the young people receiving nursing care were excluded in the care process, modern nursing practices have focused on the inclusion of victim families i9n both treatment of the young people and in decision making. This has significantly changed the role that the mental nurses play as well as their practices in the care process for the young people faced with mental problems.
(I.C. DS 3304)