INTRODUCTION There is no Health without “MENTAL HEALTH” but many people seldom talk and some only pay little attention to doing things to promote their mental health. Many people who have mental health challenges may not even know that they have such not to talk of seeking help! Hello, welcome to this course. We are happy to have you doing NSC 314 – Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing I. You would have done some lectures in Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing when you were in the basic school of nursing. You are going to do a little more and have opportunities to have practical sessions to give you more facts and experinces in Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing. Intrestingly, we all learn a lot from been able to look at our own lives too. As nurses you must be able to manage your mental health to be able to provide mental health care. You must have desirable knowledge about how the link between the body and the mind, how the mind functions before you can determine if and when something goes wrong, what goes wrong and what you can do within your professional responsibility to help clients achieve, maintain, sustain, retain and adjust to permant change in their lives.
