Mental health or Registered Psychiatric Nurses take care of patients diagnosed with mental illnesses and confined in mental hospitals, asylums or institutions. They have been trained as registered nurses but have specialized in the care of people in various states of mental derangement or dysfunction, whether short term depression, progressive or lifelong lunacy, dementia, psychosis, schizophrenia or degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.
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Satinder V. Malik
Nicholas St., Chester, UK
Phone: 01244-332875
Objective
To become part of a team of Registered Psychiatric Nurses in a mental hospital or institution.
Professional Experience
2003 – Present: Psychiatric Nurse, Countess of Chester Hospital, Cheshire
- Assist the resident psychiatrist in developing treatment programs and practical therapies for patients with varying levels of lunacy or progressive cognitive loss and depression.
- Monitor patient’s responses to administered treatment program, document and report any behavioral changes or improvements.
- Assist in the health care of lobotomized patients confined to mental institutions
- Meet with patient’s families and relatives, social workers and other therapists to ascertain root causes of mental derangement.
- Administer psychiatric assessment of disturbed and problematic children.
- Maintain database of patients and assist the Psychiatrist in outsourcing transcription of recorded psychoanalytic sessions.
Skills
- High level of patience and tolerance with difficult patients
- Excellent oral communication skills
- Excellent psychological and interpersonal skills dealing with mental patients.
Achievements
Awarded Employee of the Year in 2002 and 2004 for consistent contribution to the research of new drugs
Education
2000 – 2003: Master in Psychiatric Nursing, North East Wales Institute
1994 – 1998: BS in Nursing, University of Wales, Newport
Reference
Can be provided upon request