This document outlines standards for mental health and forensic nursing practice. It discusses 15 standards for professional practice in areas such as theory, data collection, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation. It also discusses 7 standards for professional performance, including peer review, continuing education, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Finally, it discusses standards for holistic nursing practice, including addressing patients' spiritual needs related to meaning, faith, hope, love, and forgiveness, as well as the role of religion. The overall purpose is to fulfill the nursing profession's obligation to provide high quality care.

1. MR SURESH KUMAR
SHARMA
LECTURER, M.I.M.H, PUNE

2. M.I.M.H, SASOON CAMPUS, PUNE
WELCOME

3. PURPOSEPURPOSE
• Fulfill the profession’s obligation
• to provide a means of improving the quality
of care.
• This standards are a revision of the
standards enunciated by the Division on
psychiatric and mental health nursing
practice in 1973.

4. STANDARDS
OF
MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
Professional practice
standards professional
performance standards

5. Professional practice standardsProfessional practice standards
1. standard- I Theory
1. Application of relevant theory to explain the phenomena of
concern and provide a basis for intervention.
2. standard- II Data collection
– Comprehensive, accurate and systematic assessment
enable the nurse to reach sound concussions and plan
apt interventions with the client.
3. standard- III Diagnosis
Based on classification of disease to express conclusions
supported by recorded assessment data.
4. standard- IV Planning
With specific goals and interventions develops a nursing care plan

6. 5. standard- V Intervention
a) psychotherapeutic intervention
• Improving their previous coping abilities and to
prevent further disabilities
b) health teaching
To satisfy and provide productive living pattern
c) Activities of daily living
d) Somatic therapy
e) Therapeutic environment
f) Psychotherapy
6. standard- VI Evaluation

7. Professional performance
standards
• Standards –VII Peer review
– To assure quality care
• Standards –VIII Continuing education
• Standards – IX Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Standards – X Utilization of community health
system
• Standards – XI Research

8. Standard of holistic nursingStandard of holistic nursing
practicepractice
a. SPIRITUAL CONCEPTS:-
The human quality that gives meaning and
sense of purpose to an individual’s
existence. Spirituality exists within each
individual regardless of belief system and
serves as a force for interconnectedness
between the self and others, the
environment, and a higher power.

9. • Smucker (2001) identifies the following
factors as types of spiritual needs
associated with human beings:
1. Meaning and purpose in life
2. Faith or trust in someone or something
beyond
ourselves
3. Hope
4. Love
5. Forgiveness

10. Spiritual NeedsSpiritual Needs
1. Meaning and Purpose in Life
• He identifi es the seven perennial
practices as follows:
1. Transform your motivation: Reduce craving
and
fi nd your soul’s desire.
2. Cultivate emotional wisdom: Heal your heart
and
learn to love.

11. 3. Live ethically: Feel good by doing good.
4. Concentrate and calm your mind:
Accept the challenge of mastering attention.
5. Awaken your spiritual vision:
See clearly and recognize the sacred in all things.
6. Cultivate spiritual intelligence:
Develop wisdom and understand life.
7. Express spirit in action:
Embrace generosity and the joy of service.

12. 2. Faith
• Faith is often thought of as the acceptance
of a belief in the absence of physical or
empirical evidence. Smucker (2001)
states:
• For all people, faith is an important
concept. From childhood on, our
psychological health depends on having
faith or trust in something or someone to
help meet our needs.

13. 3. Hope3. Hope
Hope has been defined as a special kind of
positive expectation (Karren et al, 2006).
With hope, individuals look at a situation,
and no matter how negative, find
something positive on which to focus.
Hope functions as an energizing force.

14. 4. Love4. Love
• Smucker (2001) states:
Love, in its purest unconditional form, is probably
life’s most powerful force and our greatest
spiritual need.
Not only is it important to receive love, but
equally important to give love to others.
We all have experienced the good feelings that
come from caring for and loving others.

15. 55.. forgivenessforgiveness
• Karren and associates (2006) state,
“Essential to a spiritual nature is forgiveness
—the ability to release from the mind all
the past hurts and failures, all sense of
guilt and loss”

16. B. ReligionB. Religion
• A set of beliefs, values, rites, and rituals
adopted by a group of people. The
practices are usually grounded in the
teachings of a spiritual leader.

17. Standard for professionalStandard for professional
performance forensic nursingperformance forensic nursing
1. standard- I assessment
2. standard- II Diagnosis
3. standard- III outcome identification
4. standard- IV Planning

18. 5. standard- V Intervention
a) coordination of care
b) health teaching and health promotion
To satisfy and provide productive living pattern
c) consultation
d) prescriptive authority and treatment
6. standard- VI Evaluation

19. Professional forensic
performance standards
• Standards –VII Peer review
– To assure quality care
• Standards –VIII Continuing education
• Standards – IX professional practice evaluation
• Standards – X collegiality
• Standards – XI collaboration
• Standards – XII ethics
• Standards – XIII research

20. • Standards – XIV resource utilization
• Standards – XV leadership

21. M.I.M.H, SASOON
CAMPUS, PUNE