Mental Health Nursing Personal Statement

Am a young lady that has work in the health sector for over three years and has been a Health Care support worker. During this time, I have helped different clients, both adults, and children in the health care industry. I have taken care of people with different health problems, people with drug abuse, alcohol abuse, substance abuse, and clients with depression. Also, have work in the hospital with people that has a mental illness.

There are different task I always carry out when am on shift such as, doing observation, writing care plans, interacting with clients, ward rounds with a panel of healthcare professionals, serving food, helping them with personal care, assisting the nurse in charge with the observation on their medication, encouraging some of the clients to eat, have a wash, and also assuring them they are fine.

This experience has given me the chance to real practical how my services are needed in the health sector and have inspired me to further my training to become a mental health nurse. I feel the need to help all the people in our society. I believe it is important to use the mental health to promote mental health illness to the public and all the people that need the support. I have continued to work in the caring service, and since 2017 specifically, mental health contexts and so have gained extensive experience of working with patients with such problem, and procedures and learnt about the need for a tactful and sensitive approach to patients, and importance of working with the framework of a mental health team. Since I started working as a support worker.

I am presently studying Access to Health Studies with the hope of going to university. I am enjoying studying different modules; psychology, numeracy, human biology, health, IT and research. All the above subjects need a lot of time spent within the college and outside. They involve a lot of preparation for assignments and research. One of my hobbies is to care for people in which I gained loads of experience in my work as a support worker.

I am finding the above subjects to be helpful in my future career. I have visited a website on the Internet on careers' guidance and after doing their IQ test mental health came on top as my chosen career. I was delighted with the result of this IQ test. Being an adult student, I had to contend with going back to college to study more about the course.

Initially, I thought it was going to be difficult and how was I going to cope with sitting at a desk after a long time without studying, and how will I going to cope with assignments, getting it done and handing them in on time. I did find it very challenging, but it has helped me to put time management, planning and preparation in place, which has given me a foundation for university next year

I knew that I wanted to work in the health care sector, the first time I had the opportunity to work in the hospital, it was in the mental health ward and I was working with a nurse that knew what she was doing and we were looking after a girl that had just developed a mental issue and was brought in to the ward, I saw the way the nurse restrained the girl and gave her medications and showed support to her. Showing her the way she can help to stop the mental issue with the help of taking her medications regularly and coming for further appointments. After a few months, I went back to the ward and I saw that the girl was doing fine and ready to be discharged.

The first job I did was in the care field. I started this career by working in the care home, moved to a nursing home and now I work around both nursing home, care home and hospital.

Overall, I enjoy working with people which is one of the main reasons I have chosen this career, I believe that nursing is a good career as a long- time commitment. My responsibilities at work have grown and I have had the opportunities to serve the needs of many patients. I am a good listener and have strong powers of empathy and understanding. I work as a team with others, but also have the courage to trust my work and make my own decisions.