• Define and discuss assessment.
• Explain what assessment in mental health nursing is? How do we understand it, and what is it?
• Refer to literature and different sources of information to highlight aspects and contrasting perspectives and viewpoints.
• Develop the discussion to look at assessment within a wider framework, or conceptual understanding by choosing ONE model. Framework, philosophy or approach to discuss, with substantial support from, and reference to theory and literature.
• Use your chosen framework, philosophy or approach throughout the rest of the assignment.
• Your chosen framework, philosophy or approach should repeatedly feature in the assessment and care planning sections in order to clearly demonstrate that it has been meaningfully applied, and there is a synthesis of theory and practice.
Explain what assessment in mental health nursing is?
