Nursing home consultation: a tool for intervention in the field of mental health and psychiatric care for the older people

• Autor(a) principal: Fragoeiro, Isabel Maria Abreu Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/2878
• topic: Nursing; Mental health; Psychiatric care; Consultation; Older people; Domicile; Community; .; Escola Superior de Saúde

Nursing intervention with old people at home involves their recognition as multidimensional human beings, multifaceted, unique and unrepeatable, given its biographical and socio-cultural stories. Implies the recognition of the “Being” complex and multifaceted, who by inalienable right and with free will, must give its opinion and decide on all everyday actions with its development implications, until the end of life. Among other things, the purpose of the intervention is to preserve the autonomy and enjoy better quality of life, even when they suffer disease processes. The approach concerning the consultation of mental health nursing at older people’s home that is presented here, is based on theoretical and experiential knowledge acquired in different care as psychiatric and mental health nurse in the community context. Is also based on the experience as teacher involved in the training of nurses and nurse specialists in Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing in the Autonomous Region of Madeira (RAM). It aims to enhance the relevance and feasibility of this consultation as proximity strategy and communication with older people at risk and/or affected by mental health problems. With regard to the planning and structuring of a mental health and psychiatric nursing consultation at home is presented a case, whose content is of our responsibility, to through its schematic presentation provide an example capable of achieving the results arising from the direct intervention of the nurse.