Nursing Care for Patients with Mental Illness: Theory, Interventions, and Assessment

TASK
You are required to consider the case study provided on the Interact2 (12) site. The case study
has been developed to support assessment tasks one and two (I and 2) in the 202430 session
of this subject.

In this case study, a patient has ongoing mental health issues, with a significant background
history. The case study focuses on both assessment of the current presentation, as well as legal
and ethical issues of the current presentation and previous mental health care the patient has
received.

This case study includes elements that you may find confronting. You may have been involved
in similar events in your personal, professional or study experiences. If you are distressed by
the scenario, please contact the Subject Convenor to discuss and, consider contacting the
Charles Sturt Student Counselling service (free and confidential) - https;//www.csu.edu.au/
current-studentslsafety-wellbeing/your-wellbeinglstudent-counselling.

You need to address each component set out below. Some will ask you to provide examples
from the case study or relate to the case study. Some are more general in nature. Please read
the marking criteria for each question carefully. The word counts are a guide only for the
amount of detail you should provide in your response. They are not compulsory word limits.

This assessment should be written in formal academic style and sources must be correctly
referenced in-text and in the reference list in accordance with APA 7th Edition referencing style.

• Discuss a contemporary theory of nursing that can be used when caring for a patient
  with a mental illness. (300 words)
• Outline two nursing interventions that could be provided for the patient in the case
  study and relate them to the theory outlined in question I. (500 words)
• Outline the domains of the Mental State Examination (MSE). Which are you able to
  assess from the information in the case study and how would you assess them? (500
  words)
• Outline the difference between crisis, distress, emergency and trauma in mental
  health. Explain which, if any, apply to the patient in this case study and why? In this

SUBJECT LEARNING OUTCOMES

This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:

• be able to discuss and evaluate contemporary theories of mental health and mental
  illness.
• be able to explain the assessment of mental health challenges, such as distress, crisis,
  trauma and emergency.
• be able to identify and analyse factors that impact on the mental health of vulnerable
  groups with relation to individualising nursing care.

GRADUATE LEARNING OUTCOMES

This task also contributes to the assessment of the following Charles Sturt Graduate Learning
Outcome/s (https;//wwwgu.edu.au/current-students/studying/.subject-enrolment/graduate:
learning-outcomes):

• Digital Literacies (Skill) - Charles Sturt Graduates use, create, communicate and share
  multimodal information in digital environments.
• Ethics (Application) -Charles Sturt Graduates form judgements and apply ethical
  decision making and reasoning to identify creative solutions to ethical problems.
• Indigenous Cultural Competence (Application) - Charles Sturt Graduates practise in
  ways that show a commitment to social justice and the processes of reconciliation
  through inclusive practices and citizenship.
• Sustainable Practices (Knowledge) - Charles Sturt Graduates demonstrate a
  multidisciplinary knowledge that empowers graduates to understand and critically
  analyse the challenges of balancing the social, economic and environmental factors
  essential for ecological sustainability.

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