Alignment with learning outcome(s):
| 1. | Apply legal and ethical frameworks when planning and delivering mental health nursing care under the Mental Health Act 2014 Victoria. |
| 2. | Identify appropriate services available for clients and carers in which to facilitate optimal mental health care, while acknowledging barriers to receiving care, such as stigma, cultural and gender related issues. |
| 3. | Employ clinical and critical decision-making skills to identify, analyse and resolve problems in the mental health practice environment. |
| 4. | Conduct and document fundamental interview and related assessments of patients who have disturbances in mood, thought, behaviour and perception. |
| 5. | Apply knowledge of appropriate therapeutic drugs prescribed for mental health conditions and important associated administration aspects. |
Details of task:
This assessment task is based on the following case study of Felix.
| Case Study: Felix Felix is a 20 year old single man, currently working in marketing full time. Felix has no significant past medical history or past mental health history. Felix did experience childhood abuse at the age of 10 prior to his parent’s marital breakdown. Following the breakdown of the marriage, Felix’s mother had difficulty caring for Felix due to her own poor mental health, so he was often left after school by himself. He has little contact with his family, and only a few friends who he now infrequently contacts. Felix describes feeling anxious most of the time and often “worries about anything and everything”. He is often fatigued, has difficulty concentrating and in making decisions, and often then worries about making the wrong decision. He describes being irritable and not being able to relax, has poor sleep and has increased his alcohol consumption as a way to cope with stress and his feelings of anxiousness. He reports he is currently drinking a bottle of whisky each night. Recently this has caused issues with his work, as he is not meeting deadlines. His boss has informed him that if he doesn’t start performing as expected, he will be asked to leave. He reports a low mood and often feels that people would be “better off without him”. Felix states that he has had thoughts of harming himself. Due to a deterioration in his mental health, Felix has been admitted to an acute mental health unit and prescribed 5mgs of diazepam TDS and 10mg of escitalopram daily, by the admitting psychiatrist.
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| Essay Topic: Considering Felix’s presentation, discuss key management priorities and interventions/strategies that are holistic, patient centred and recovery focused that you as a mental health nurse would use in order to support the care for Felix whilst admitted to the acute mental health unit and also on discharge to his home.
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Due date: 21 April
Word limit: 2000 words +/- 10%
Presentation requirements:
- Size 12 font Arial or Times New Roman font with double spacing between lines
- Leave a 4 cm margin on the left side of the page with double line spacing
- Pages should be numbered
- Submitted assignments must be submitted in WORD format, not PDF
- Students must respond to the University declaration on submission
- You may use subheadings to develop your paper and ensure you address each question
- All in-text references count in the word count. Reference list is excluded from word count
- Minimum of 16 references. References as per APA 6th referencing style. Refrenceses should be mostly within last 7 years