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Mental Health Nursing Jobs - Working in a Diverse Environment

If you are considering a career in mental health nursing, you will gain experience in giving treatment, care and support to clients with moderate to extreme emotional, mental and psychological problems. Mental health nursing jobs offer you the opportunity to work in a diverse environment. Some of the roles you will find yourself performing in include, assisting in identifying client's problems and doing preliminary assessments, monitoring and reporting on the mental condition of the client and helping clients to manage their mental illness and give counsel and support. You will also give prescribed medication to clients and facilitate and organise therapy groups. Helping clients with personal-care and day to day activities will also be part of your job description along with visiting clients in the community and networking with community organisations, employers, government agencies, the police and lawyers.

Mental health nursing jobs will provide you with the opportunity to specialise working with a range of different groups of people such as the elderly, families, women, children and adolescents, Maori and Pasifika people and offenders with mental health illnesses. You will also be able to specialise in areas such as crisis assessment or telephone triage where you will gauge mental health needs and risks based on symptoms reported to you via the telephone.

As a nurse in this specialisation you will be skilled in many areas such as knowledge of different nursing methods and theories, psychiatric disorders, different diseases and illnesses and how the body works. You will also be knowledgeable in areas of medicines and treatments, and the effects these medicines have on patients and you will be skilled in counselling and therapy techniques. You will also know the ins and outs of relevant legislation and your oral and written communication skills and listening skills will be excellent. Things such as organising and decision-making will become second nature to you. You may work for hospitals, nursing homes and community care services and you will spend time in the community making calls on clients. Mental health nursing jobs involve a lot of contact with a diverse group of people that include other health professionals, clients and their families, community agencies and police and ambulance officers. The salaries for nurses in this profession are around $44,000 to $66,000 and you will potentially be able to advance your career by moving into clinical specialist roles within the health industry or into research or management and education roles.

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Geneva Health International Ltd is a leader in its field of health staffing and recruitment. They have a wide variety of major staff supply contracts, within Australia, New Zealand, UK and overseas, and have extensive experience in meeting the needs of a significant number of large and small health organisations. Geneva Health is one of the longest serving health recruitment companies in New Zealand. Many of our staff have been working for the company since its inception and have a vast knowledge and in-depth experience in health recruitment. Geneva Health NZ work with Public/Private Hospitals, A&M clinics, Aged Care facilities, Mental Health and ID Providers, Homecare and Community services. Check out just some of our Mental Health Jobs listed here.

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Important Mental Health Causes and Symptoms

Our mental health can vary according to our circumstances and can change across our lifetime, in the same way as our physical health does.

Mental health problems are among the most common of all health conditions, directly affecting about a quarter of the population in any one year. Depression and anxiety are the most widespread conditions.

Anxiety disorders – Mental Health

Anxiety disorders can take many forms. You may experience free-floating anxiety without knowing exactly why you’re feeling that way. You may suffer from sudden, intense panic attacks that strike without warning. Your anxiety may come in the form of extreme social inhibition or in unwanted obsessions and compulsions. Or you may have a phobia of an object or situation that doesn’t seem to bother other people.

Symtoms Of Anxiety Disorders

• Apprehension, uneasiness, and dread

• Impaired concentration or selective attention

• Feeling restless or on edge

Mental Health – Type of Dementia

Dementia is the loss of mental functions, such as thinking, memory and reasoning, that is severe enough to interfere with a person's daily life. Dementia is not a disease itself, but rather a group of symptoms that may accompany certain diseases or conditions. Symptoms may involve changes in personality, mood and behavior.

Causes of Dementia

• Vascular disorders, such as multi-infarct dementia, which is caused by multiple strokes in the brain

• Depression

• Infections of the central nervous system such as meningitis, HIV, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a quickly progressing and fatal disease that is characterized by dementia and muscle twitching and spasm

Causes of Mental Health Illness

Although the exact cause of most mental illnesses is not known, it is becoming clear through research that many of these conditions are caused by a combination of biological, psychological and environmental factors.

Symptoms Of Mental Health Disturbance

ACTING DIFFERENT THAN USUAL. Can you link this change in behavior to something that has happened recently? Any event, such as the death of a close relative, or even something positive – like a job promotion – can trigger a troublesome emotional reaction.

BECOMES AGGRESSIVE, RUDE, AND ABUSIVE OVER MINOR INCIDENTS. Are there remarks about groups or individuals “out to get me?” If that last remark was made in all seriousness, and blowups and violent physical behavior occur, there is a strong indication some help may be required.

The greatest symptoms which trigger mental health concerns have to do with the person’s ability to function. When they suddenly start missing a lot of work or school or losing jobs, not eating or eating too much, barely sleeping or not sleeping at all, and seem to be irritable or angry with everyone and everything, these are usually early symptoms of mental health issues. As symptoms progress the individual may experience self harm such as cutting or burning themselves and taking unnecessary risks with their safety. Any significant drastic change can be a symptom of a mental health issue

Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest

Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure

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