Registered Mental Nurse Job Description
Mental health nurses work as part of a team of professional and medical staff that includes doctors, social workers, therapists and psychiatrists.
Typical duties of the job include:
- Assessing and planning nursing care requirements
- Organising workloads
- Visiting patients at home
- Building relationships with, reassuring, listening and talking to patients
- Combating stigma and helping patients and their families deal with it
- Administering medication
- Agreeing and reviewing care plans and monitoring progress
- Giving advice and arranging support for patients, relatives and carers
- Liaising with doctors, social workers and other professionals
- Assessing treatment success at case conferences and meetings
- Writing and updating patient records
- Shift work or on-call rotas can sometimes be part the job.
