MASTER OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PROGRAM Hope, Healing, and Recover "We envision a future when everyone with a mental illness will recover"

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MASTER OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PROGRAM
Hope, Healing, and Recover"We envision a
future when everyone with a mental illness will
recover"
Faculty of Nursing
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Assessment Needs

• As the strategy highlighs that Community Mental
  Health Nursing Program is one of the specialties
  that we have a significant shortage in Palestine
  particularly in the Northern Area of the Westbank
• Separation Barrier, total lack of security,
  continued closures, varying degrees of siege and
  mobility restrictions have isolated students of
  entire communities in the north of the west bank
  with minimal access to another universities in
  the south area.

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Assessment Needs

• The psychiatric and mental health education of
  nurses is inadequate and their role in providing
  mental health care is underdeveloped.
• The situation analysis revealed no concept of
  holistic mental health care, high levels of
  stigma and no consumer support or advocacy
  groups.
• Well educated trained nurses can contribute to
  the promotion of mental health and the prevention
  and treatment of mental disorders.

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Assessment Needs

• WHO recommends that mental health care should be
  part of or integrated into primary health care.
• Education is necessary
• to improve the recognition of mental disorders
  in primary health care,
• to increase the referral to more specialized
  health providers
• to enhance the initiation of supportive
  therapies.
• Ongoing supervision and support from specialist
  mental health services are needed to assist
  community mental health nurses to care for people
  with more complex mental health needs.

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Assessment Needs

• Ongoing education of mental health is also
  needed
• to assist nurses to further develop their
  knowledge and skills,
• to foster changes in attitudes and beliefs and
• to reorient them from custodial models of mental
  health care to community based care treatment.

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Assessment Needs

• Due to the social structure of Palestinian
  society, and its emphasis on the extended family,
  even the severely mentally ill tend to remain in
  the family environment and are cared for by
  relatives.
• It also reinforces the need to strengthen
  community-based outpatient services, as well as
  to build support systems for the families of
  those suffering from mental health problems.

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To meet the growing mental health needs of the
Palestinian population

• A first step would be to integrate mental health
  services into primary healthcare.
• This will increase access, reduce stigma,
  increase acceptability and strengthen monitoring
  and information systems.
• A second step is to educate community mental
  health nurses

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The importance of Community Mental Health Nurses

• Community Mental Health Nurses play a key role in
  the Primary Health Care Team and may offer
  support, guidance and advice within a Community
  Health Centre, Community Day Care Facility,
  clients own home or within residential settings
  within the local community or local hospital.
• Working as a valued member of the
  multidisciplinary team, Community Mental Health
  Nurses may liase with members of many other
  professions, so that care is based on a thorough
  assessment, planned to facilitate.

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The Community Mental Health Nursing program
focuses on

• the promotion and maintenance of health
• the prevention, detection and treatment of acute
  and chronic mental illness, with the goal of
  helping clients achieve the highest possible
  level of well-being throughout their lives

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Mental Health Nursing

• Mental health nursing works within nursing
  models, utilising nursing care plan, and seeks to
  care for the whole person adopts a holistic
  model of care
• The emphasis of mental health nursing is on the
  development of a therapeutic relationship.
• In practice, this means that the nurse should
  seek to engage with the person in care in a
  positive and collaborative manner that empowers
  them to draw on their inner resources in addition
  to any other treatment they may be receiving.

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Mental Health Nursing

• As a Community Mental Health Nurse,
• The nurse would visit the individual's home to
• identify factors in the social, psychological
  and physical environment which may contribute to
  this individual's disability
• make recommendations for emergency or continuing
  care
• suggest alternative treatment plans
• teach caretakers/family methods of dealing with
  emergencies and
• provide advice on the availability of medical,
  social and housing facilities for the individual
  in the community.

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Competencies of Community Mental Health Nurse

• Analyze the role of nursing in responding to
  environmental hazards and community crises.
• Analyze the role of the nurse (or nursing
  practice) in various community settings (triage,
  clinic, home care, school, etc.).
•  Plan nursing care for special populations within
  the community (disabled, homeless, mental ill,
  elderly, cultural, teen, chronically ill, etc.).

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Competencies of Community Mental Health Nurse

• Plan nursing care for clients within
  various/selected community settings.
• Assess a community including the relationships
  among individuals, groups, and health.
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Competencies of Community Mental Health Nurse

• Manage care for clients experiencing anxiety
  disorders.
• Manage care for clients experiencing mood
  disorders.
• Manage care for clients experiencing personality
  disorders.

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Competencies of Community Mental Health Nurse

• Manage care for clients with disorders thought
  processes (schizophrenia, etc.)
• Manage care for clients with mental health
  disorders of childhood and adolescence
• Manage care for clients and families experiencing
  domestic violence

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Vision

• The vision of the Faculty of Nursing at An-Najah
  National University is to be a leading institute
  for graduate nursing education, research and
  community services at both the national and
  regional levels.
• Our vision is also to promote the well-being of
  Palestinian society and combat the stigma
  attached to mental illness in the society.

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Mission

• The Faculty of Nursing upholds An-Najah National
  University educational mission in the provision
  of quality education at postgraduate levels.
• The Faculty of Nursing is committed to prepare
  Community Mental Health Nurses at postgraduate
  level capable of providing quality of mental
  health care to individuals, families, and
  community in a variety of settings.
• Specialized nurses at the postgraduate level who
  are highly qualified professional mental health
  nurses in education, research, and specialized
  practice and be able to enhance the capacity of
  the community in dealing with mental health
  problems to provide comprehensive community
  mental health services - therapy, training and
  research.

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Philosophy 

• It is the belief of the faculty members that
  mental health is a basic human right, a
  purposeful dynamic and adaptive response to
  maintain and promote a level of function and
  comfort within a social and cultural context.
• Nurses play an important role in assisting
  clients (individuals, families and communities)
  to maintain health status through disease
  prevention and health promotion services.

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Philosophy 

• Mental health nursing is a unique humanistic
  profession that aims at promoting, maintaining
  and restoring optimal levels of mental health and
  alleviating suffering of clients.
• Nursing involves caring and empowering clients to
  take responsibility for their own health
  throughout the life cycle.

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Philosophy 

• The client is a bio-psycho-social and spiritual
  human being in constant interaction with a
  changing environment.
• Every human being is a unique entity entitled to
  respect, care and support. Each has dignity,
  intrinsic values freedom and responsibility for
  his/her own choice in seeking health care.
• Clients have the right to full accessible,
  affordable and holistic health services without
  discrimination.

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Program AimsThe aims of this program are to
enable the graduate to

• generate and apply knowledge about the
  biological, psychological, social, cultural and
  spiritual aspects of the human experience of
  health and illness.
• work towards empowering individuals, groups and
  communities to achieve, maintain and restore
  optimal health.
• gain advanced knowledge, skills and attitudes
  necessary to practice as a specialist community
  mental health nurse in primary, secondary and
  tertiary settings and to provide culturally
  appropriate care to individuals and groups

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Conclusion

• Because of
• community mental health nursing program is one
  of the specialties that we have a significant
  shortage in the Northern Area of the Westbank
• there has been growing evidence that
  community-based mental health services, together
  with modern treatment methods, not only improve
  the quality of life for service users and their
  carers, but are also cost effective,
• therefore the master program in community mental
  health nursing at An-Najah National
  University/Nursing Collge is warranted.

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Thank You


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2015-12-31