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Registered Mental Health Nurses assess, plan, provide and evaluate preventative, curative and rehabilitative care for patients in a wide variety of settings. These include public and private hospitals, nursing homes, community and home-based services, and in industry.
Registered Mental Health Nurses may perform the following tasks:
- provide physical and technical nursing care and support for patients
- make sure patients receive treatment prescribed by doctors and other health professionals
- provide emotional and psychological support and information to patients and their families
- supervise, or carry out, nursing care of patients
- observe, monitor, assess, report and document patients' conditions and responses to treatment
- give medication in accordance with sound working knowledge of legislation and pharmacology
- monitor and adjust medical equipment used in patient care and treatment, which can be highly technical and complex
- assist in the rehabilitation of patients
- assist with patients' discharge planning
- provide first aid, assist in routine medical examinations, give advice on health matters and maintain sickness and accident records (where employed by large industrial or commercial organisations)
- answer questions and provide information to patients and families about treatment and care
- contribute to the clinical training of nursing students
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