In no less that 200 words, write down your thoughts and reactions about the short

clips/videos in relation to Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing and your role as a nurse.
3. Check the scoring rubrics as your guide.

I am a nurse. I am a nurse. I'm a nurse. Nurse. Team member. Lifesaver. A friend. An innovator. A
student. Family. A voice for my patients. Role model. Advocate. Critical thinker. A people person. A
listener. Hero. I am a nurse. My name is Heather Morath. I work in inpatient psychiatry at our College
Hill location and I serve primarily kids from age 2-11 there. I went to school for business, graduated,
worked for a family company and low-income and Section 8 housing property management. I began
to kind of think, what could I do that would allow me to use some of the skills that I learned in
business, but also allow me to do more interactions with families. I wanted to help families of
children with special needs. So business to nursing seems like a really big jump, but to me it was a
leap of faith, knowing that that was one way that I was going to actualize what I wanted to do with
my life. I took a little bit of time in between my careers and then went back to school in an
accelerated program. When you start out as a nurse, you know, you want to save the world, right?
And you realize very quickly that you have to figure out what you can actually accomplish. Some
days it might be something gigantic and some days it might be as simple as a little gesture, a caring
gesture, some kind of relationship building that you do with a family that really helps them feel like
their situation is normalized. We celebrate every little accomplishment in psychiatry and we should.
And we celebrate not only with the patient and family, but with each other as a team. We do
everything in a group setting in psychiatry and we all have our individual role and scope clearly, but if
we don't have the support of our team members, our mental health specialists, or our social workers
we can't accomplish what we want to accomplish. Nursing is a profession. There's a lot of different
avenues you can take within a hospital from direct care bedside nursing to information systems, to
employee health, all of which you can learn a great deal from. Pretty soon after I started here at
Children's, I got involved in our shared governance structure, which really gives direct care clinicians
a voice at the table with our operations members here at Children's. That's been a great experience. I
feel like working here has given me perspective on life. It's given me perspective as a mom. I think
that perspective has made me a better nurse because I realize that when a family is going through
something hard and another family is going through an even harder challenge that every family's
challenge is their challenge. So we have to acknowledge that and meet that family where they are
and help them through that challenge. I think Cincinnati Children's nurses are passionate. They're
big-hearted. I think that they are here because they want to be here. They want to help these kids and
these families and they want to be a tool. They want to be a resource, some way to make a
difference. My name is Heather and I'm a nurse.

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This video gives a glimpse into the life of an IMH nurse. Nursing is no longer just about bedside care.
It has evolved. Nurses can now explore other tracks, such as, education and research; all of which,
strive to improve patient care. At IMH, nurses have many specialised career tracks to choose from:
Clinical, Education, and Administration. New nursing career tracks have also been introduced:
Nursing Quality, Nursing Informatics, and Nursing Research. Psychiatric nurses face their fair share
of challenges as they care for people with mental illness. However, their greatest reward is seeing
their patients recover and reintegrate back into the communi

This video gave me a glimpse into the life and responsibilities of a Psychiatric Nurse. It made me
realize that nurses play a vital role in in the healthcare settings especially the psychiatric nurses.
It helped me understand that caring for people with mental disorders is tough, and that being a
psychiatric nurse takes a lot of passion. Being a psychiatric nurse needs a lot of patience and
empathy because psychiatric nurses have no idea what's going on in their patients' minds, what
they want, and how to deal with it which makes it impossible for them to provide extra care
while also attempting to address their concerns. Caring for mentally ill people can be
challenging and dealing with their erratic behavior can be tough.

often overwhelming difficulties that come with caring for mentally ill people.

know what they are thinking, it takes patience a lot of patience and passion, understanding in
caring for them.

This puts them in a difficult position of delivering excellent services while still attempting to
address the difficulties
especially that their patients needs some extra care, kindness and understanding

Extra care, kindness and understanding

Difficult to treat

In the world of clinical treatment, nurses are the main group of health care practitioners that
care for mental health care patients. This puts them in a difficult position of delivering excellent
services while still attempting to address the difficulties that this patient population presents.
Nursing education must be mindful of not just the multifaceted responsibilities of clinical
nurses, but also the special and often overwhelming difficulties that come with caring for
mentally ill people.

The most common complaints in psychiatric nursing practice were "mental health care clients
deny mental illness" and the difficulty in coping with patients' erratic behavior.