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Need an argumentative essay on What Are The Current Attitudes, Knowledge And Perceptions Of Healthcare And Social Care Professionals Towards People Who Self- Harm. Needs to be 17 pages. Please no plag
Need an argumentative essay on What Are The Current Attitudes, Knowledge And Perceptions Of Healthcare And Social Care Professionals Towards People Who Self- Harm. Needs to be 17 pages. Please no plagiarism.
Download file to see previous pages...More than mere medical treatment and emergency care it is more important to identify the needs of these self harming persons and the reasons behind doing so (Ouzouni and Nakakis, 2009). Care and moral support is more important for such patients than medical treatment. This however depends on the behavior and attitude of the staff and nurses working in accident and emergency (A&.E) departments. The care and management of the patients rests entirely on whether the nursing staff develops a positive or negative attitude towards those patients who harm themselves either through cuts or burns in the skin or through other harmful methods such as self poisoning (Friedman, Newton, Hooley, Patel and Mitchell, 2006). In recent times these patients have often complained about insufficient care in the A&.E department of hospitals. This is because in most cases the nursing staff exhibits anger or frustration while dealing with self harming patients (McAllister, Creedy, Moyle and Farrugia, 2002). Research studies have been undertaken by eminent psychologists to understand the attitude of nurses and doctors encountering such self harming patients to develop measurement tools and frame developmental policies accordingly. The essay intends to present a critical review of the methodologies adopted and finding obtained during such research studies to identify the current attitudes, knowledge and perceptions of social and health care professionals dealing with self harming patients. Before getting into interpretation of results performing thematic analysis and critical review of the given articles on behavior of health care professionals towards self harming patients it is important to identify the theme underlying each article which is essential for our analysis. The article themes have been identified and presented in a hypothetical format below: Table 1: Thematic Analysis for different articles (attached) on self harming behavior Author Name of Paper Theme Terence McCann Eileen Clark Susan McConnachie Isabel Harvey Accident and Emergency nurses’ attitude towards people who self harm Whether the attitude of nurses working in accident and emergency department is positive or negative towards self- harming patients Trevor Friedman Charles Newton Christine Coggan Samantha Hooley Rekha Patel Matthew Pickard Alex J. Mitchell Predictors of A&.E staff attitudes to self-harm patients who use self-laceration: Influence of previous training and experience Whether the attitude of staff working in accident and emergency (A&.E) department is positive or negative towards patients who harm themselves through cut or injuries in the skin and assessment of role of age, experience and education of nurses influencing such behavior Terence McCann Eileen Clark Susan McConnachie Isabel Harvey Deliberate self-harm: emergency department nurses’ attitudes, triage and care intentions The study is to get an idea of the attitude and care decisions of nurses working in A&.E department towards patients who harm themselves deliberately Nadine Mackay Christine Barrowclough Accident and emergency staff’s perceptions of deliberate self-harm: Attributions, emotions and willingness to help The study of the helping behavior of A&.E department staffs who harm themselves deliberately Andrew R.
