The following programs take you through the most common scenarios a mental health nurse may encounter when dealing with patients who suffer from one of these five main mental health illnesses. To point out to students where the common error and small mistakes of a nursing student may be made, each program demonstrates how a novice nurse handles a situation. The second vignette is each series shows us how a more experienced and proficient nurse takes care of a client using advanced skills and knowledge. Includes: Depressed/Suicidal Client; Verbally & Physically Aggressive Client/Delusions; Mental Status Assessment/Client Diagnosed with Borderline Personality; Client with Dementia & Agitation/Anxiety; The Client Experiencing Mania.
Languages: English
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Depressed / Suicidal Client
Most of us can relate to being “down” or “blue” at various points in our lives, but occasionally mental health nurses are called upon to care for persons with severe depression. In these two vignettes you’ll see how to avoid some of the common mistakes made by novice nurses, and how an expert nurse is able to help a depressed and suicidal client.
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Lives Interrupted – Disc III
Contains: Huntington’s Disease; Death of a Spouse; War; Stroke; Cancer.
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Verbally and Physically Aggressive Client / Delusions
Unfortunately, mental health nurses may have to care for persons who, for a variety of reasons, may be physically threatening or aggressive. With a variety of special intervention skills and knowledge the expert mental health nurse demonstrates how to care safely and effectively for these patients. The situation example also demonstrates how a nurse can build trust and rapport with a client experiencing bizarre thoughts or beliefs – known as delusion.
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Prison
Robert “Rosie” Rowbotham was paroled from prison in 1997, where he had spent more than 20 years for trafficking millions of dollars worth of grass and hashish. He once told a judge that he could not be rehabilitated, but a heart attack convinced him that he did not want to die in prison. He worked as a journalist for various prison papers and cable channels, and upon release was hired to work for CBC Radio as a specialist in prison issues. Today he acknowledges he was the author of his own misfortune, but he also knows that he is making the kind of social difference he always yearned for.
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Mental Status Assessment
One of the things that mental health nurses must do on a continuous basis with their clients is monitoring their mental status. In this pair of vignettes, you will see a novice and expert nurse conducting a mental status assessment with a client who is difficult to engage.
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The Education of… Ralph Klein
This one-hour documentary examines the growth and development of one of Canada’s most successful and popular political leaders, and the important role of continuous lifelong learning in that success.
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Overview
This program will present an overview of the writing project based on the Writer’s Workshop approach. The theoretical framework, the methodology and an overview of the three stages of writing: pre-writing, writing and post-writing will be explored in a variety of educational contexts, at all age levels, in native language programs (French and English), and in second language contexts (French and Ukrainian). Pedagogical adaptations necessary for second language settings are shared as well as learning outcomes of students involved with this approach.
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Pre-writing
This program will present how teachers set up a healthy and rich learning environment for students involved in the writing project in their respective educational context. Examples of mini-lessons, used to launch writing projects or to teach different aspects of the writing process, as well as interviews with teachers, shed light on how this teaching approach is implemented in a variety of learning contexts.