Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Video Presentation

Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Video Presentation
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Part I: On Gathering Patient Information
A psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner requires competence, commitment, and compassion. Competence is essential in gathering extensive clinical information from the patients to ensure that all the problems will be addressed with the correct or best interventions. Commitment is critical in ensuring that the patients receive a high quality of care throughout their medical care. Compassion is necessary to allow the health practitioners to relate with the patients' suffering and consider their views and opinions.
Among these three requirements, competence is the factor that can be learned from inside the classroom and enhanced by practicing the skills via actual patient encounters. Competence is critical in gathering patient information, which is the most significant aspect of patient-centered care. Treatment satisfaction is highly dependent on the data gathered about the patient's chief complaint or complaints. Moreover, this helps the health provider offer various treatments and provide an excellent explanation to aid the patients in making an informed decision. Sufficient information is also linked to patient-reported health-related outcomes such as emotional and psychological well-being, treatment adherence, and quality of life (Christalle et al., 2019).
Informed consent is necessary before proceeding to any form of treatment. This is acquired by educating the patient and their guardians regarding their condition, enumerating the possible treatment options, and expounding on the treatment regimens by explaining the detailed advantages and disadvantages of a given procedure. The health provider's competence is of great importance because informed consent is a legal and ethical obligation where the patients' autonomy over their well-being must be respected at all times. Informed consent has five elements: explaining the nature of the procedure, expounding on the risks and benefits, provision of possible alternatives, the risks and benefits of the alternatives, and evaluation of the patient's comprehension of the first four elements (Shap et al., 2021).
Gathering detailed and extensive patient information is a prerequisite in making an informed decision. This is secondary to three primary reasons. First, detailed patient information allows the health providers to understand the pathophysiology of the patients' condition, allowing them to decide on the proper and holistic medical treatment. A complete medical history involves the investigation of the patients' chief complaint and the other organ systems that might have contributory factors that endanger the patients' health or degrade their overall well-being. This also investigates the previous illnesses that may have residual effects on the patients' current status. Moreover, it provides information on the previous medical or surgical procedures that the patient received and gives information on heredofamilial or genetic diseases. Social and environmental histories are also investigated, expounding on the patients' risk factors such as alcoholic beverage drinking, cigarette or vape smoking, illicit drug use, pertinent sexual habits, hobbies, and occupational hazards. Information regarding all of these will help the health provider design the primary and secondary treatments, including patient and family education when necessary. Additionally, the health provider will explain in detail the need for the treatment (Nichol et al., 2021).
Second, patient information should also include their financial capacity, including their sources of income and the presence of health insurance, especially diseases that require long-term care (i.e., palliative treatment), because the inability to meet the ends will result in another illness, such as mental health problems, secondary to a significant amount of stress. An example of this is the treatment of cancer, which represented an annual expenditure of more than 200 billion USD in 2005, comprising 20% of the total healthcare expenses in the country. In a ch...