Enhancing Patient Safety: Nurturing Mental Health and Wellness

Mental Illnesses Safeguarding the Patient Patient safety assurance and protection are important areas of action. Giving patients the freedom to choose how much stress they can take on at any one time can help reduce anxiety. Worried patients shouldn't be forced into circumstances they can't handle by nurses. They shouldn't criticize patients' coping techniques either. Nurses should make an effort to preserve patients' defenses. The coping strategy or symptom is an effort to resolve an underlying conflict. Patients frequently have no idea why a symptom has arisen or what benefit they are receiving from it. They just are aware that some of the excruciating stress and anxiety are relieved by the symptom. therefore, asking patients "why" inquiries about their behavior If patients are unable to release their worries, their tension rises to the level of panic, and they may lose control. It's also worth noting that the very nervous patient hasn't worked through the region of As a result, there are no alternatives or substitutes for current coping techniques. This theory applies to extreme anxiety, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, and panic attacks. Nurses should not intervene with a patient's repetitive behavior at first, nor should they compel patients to encounter the avoided circumstance or phobic object. They should not criticize or

dismiss the character of the defense. In addition, nurses should not try to dispute or reason with patients about it. Patients require coping techniques to keep anxiety under control. Nurses should not foster phobia, ritual, avoidance, or physical complaint by drawing attention to it or talking about it frequently. With time, nurses can put certain boundaries on patients' conduct and try to help them find satisfaction in other areas of their lives. Some nursing interventions can exacerbate anxiety in patients who are already worried. These include putting pressure on the patient to change too soon, being judgemental, verbally disapproving of the patient's habits, and asking the patient a direct question that causes defensiveness. Concentrating attentively on the Anxious sentiments in the presence of others, a lack of awareness of one's behaviors and thoughts, and withdrawal from the patient can all be harmful.