Supporting individualised mental health recovery
Nursing is the use of clinical judgement in the provision of care to enable people to improve, maintain, or recover health, to cope with health problems, and to achieve the best possible quality of life, whatever their disease or disability, until death (Royal College of Nursing, 2014).
Our nurses work in a diverse range of settings across our services:
- Ward-based nurses provide care and treatment 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The type of care and level of intervention provided by nurses is individualised and dependent upon the service user’s needs. However, the care delivered encourages independence and is underpinned by a recovery-orientated philosophy. Nurses provide many types of interventions at ward level including; assessment, psychoeducation, supportive observation, supportive counselling, assistance with the performance of basic activities of living, working with you to develop your mental health literacy, delivery of our inpatient Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) programme and working with you on the development of your initial individual care plan.
- A number of our nurses work in specialist areas including; the Referral and Assessment Service, Nurse Education and Practice Development, Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy, the Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Department, the Wellness and Recovery Service, the Support and Information Line and the Dean Clinics.
- Nurses also fulfil specialist and advanced practice roles in all clinical programmes, such as assessment, psychotherapy and facilitation of therapeutic groups. These programmes include the Depression Recovery Programme, Bipolar Education Programme, Anxiety Disorders Programme, Eating Disorders Programme, Psychosis Recovery Programme, Young Adult Service, and Older Adult Service: find out more about these programmes and services here.
Head of the Department of Nursing
John Creedon
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