Question

1. Discuss the applicability of standards of practice to psychiatric- mental health nursing.

2. Explain the differences in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in the field of mental health.

3. Describe the application of the nursing process to psychiatric- mental health nursing.

4. Defend the need for mental health parity in health care.

5. Contrast the differences and similarities in the practice of psychiatric- mental health registered nurses and psychiatric - mental health advanced practice registered nurses.

Answer 1

• 2.Mental health is essential for individual and public health. To improve mental health, promotion, prevention, and the treatment of disease are required. These three kinds of interventions are interrelated but independent from one another.
• The mental health concept of disease prevention has viewed prevention as primary, secondary or tertiary depending on whether the strategy prevents the disease itself, the severity of the disease or the associated disability.
• In primary prevention,either the general public or a whole population group is the target;(universal prevention)or,individuals or subgroups of the population whose risk of developing a mental disorder is significantly higher than that of the rest of the population is target(selective prevention), and finally persons at high-risk for mental disorders are the target.(indicated prevention)
• Secondary prevention refers to interventions undertaken to reduce the prevalence, i.e. all specific treatment-related strategies.Secondary prevention seeks to lower the rate of established cases of the disorder or illness in the population (prevalence) through early detection and treatment of diagnosable diseases.
• Tertiary prevention would include interventions that reduce disability and all forms of rehabilitation as well as prevention of relapses of the illness.Tertiary prevention focuses on people who are already affected by a disease. The goal is to improve quality of life by reducing disability, limiting or delaying complications, and restoring function.
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