Abstract:
According to (ICN, 2002) Nursing encompasses providing independent and teambased care to people, members of all vulnerable groups, families, and communities, whether they are ill or healthy, in whatever setting. Nursing redefines health promotion, disease prevention, and the care of the sick and disabled. It is a crucial component of the delivery system for health care, and nurses perform a particular role in providing care with responsibility, generosity, and optimism. When discussing increased specialisation, it is important to note that both our knowledge regarding mental torment and the surroundings in which care and services are furnished are evolving. The shortcomings of treatments now being employed in mental health care are also clear, and the usefulness of diagnostic labels has been questioned given the current emphasis on person-centered care . Taking all this into attention this chapter sought to explore what should be the future focus of mental health nursing? The development of care for the elderly and the chronically mentally ill will be reflected in the future of psychiatric nursing. The number of service providers and those who pay them will increase. A greater cohort of nurses must choose graduate study in psychiatric or mental health nursing if the specialty is to continue, which will need adjustments to the undergraduate nursing curriculum. The need for psychiatrists, medical professionals who specialise in treating a variety of problems that affect people of all ages, is increasing as mental health is becoming more visible and services are becoming more readily available. Non-physician service providers that give counselling and support services in fields including behavioral disorders, substance abuse, and other sorts of mental health concerns are also much in demand. Psychiatry has been the equivalent of being an infectious disease doctor without a microscope or ability to culture the actual cause of the problem and then treat accordingly. We see the symptoms and we use our skills and experience to make the best educated guess as to what is going on, try to rule out a few medical causes and go from there with therapy and or medications. A lot of it, even after all these years, remains a guessing game. However, the combination of some recent basic science innovations has figured out psychiatry windows to pathology in the living brain, MRIs, PET Scans, functional MRI and SPECT Scans tell us more about small and large changes in structure, function and metabolism of the brain.