Psychiatric Medications: Education and Monitoring (Mental Health)

When providing nursing care, you will need to be able to:

• understand the intended actions of psychiatric medications
• assess patients for risk of adverse effects
• monitor the effectiveness of psychiatric medications and recognise side-effects and adverse effects
• educate patients regarding safe medication regimen and risks of adverse reactions
• teach patients to report side-effects and/or adverse reactions.

Build on your existing knowledge with the skill overview and demonstration, then review your progress using the self-test and checklist.

Skill Psychiatric Medications: Education and Monitoring (Mental Health) belongs to the categories : Mental Health and Medicines Management