Practice-Specific Concepts
Within this report will be two major points of analysis and detail. The first shall be two practice-specific concepts that the author has identified and experienced through real-world personal experience. The second will be a set of five personal propositions or assumptions based on the same. These statements, assertions and propositions will be based in part on the personal opinion and perspective of the author of this report but there will also be support and information that was culled from the scholarly literature information base that exists in academia and the world. While there are many diverse and differing opinions out there regarding healthcare and how it should be done, there are some themes that ring true and through more than others and the realm of behavioral health is no different..
Analysis
Both of the practice-specific concepts that the author of this report will focus on are centered on the same basic concept…development. However, they are different enough, despite being related, that they deserve separate mention. Further, the scholarly source used for this report actually covers both of the concepts in question within the same scholarly work. The first of the two practice-specific concepts is simulation and practice. In terms of behavioral health, this would mean things like how to administer psychological...
Most mental health patients are not suicidal. However, putting a "green" nurse, psychologist or other professional into a real situation without them first drilling and practicing what they will surely encounter when (not if) the time comes is a must. The related, but yet very different, concept in question for this report would be the assessments that are performed after a simulation or practice session is completed (Ballangrud, Persenius, Hedelin & Hall-Lord, 2014).
The study reviewed for this report, as offered and authored by Ballangrud et al. (2014), drills a little deeper by exploring how people rate themselves post-simulation. Even beyond that, they also cover how other people rate the aforementioned self-rater. To be sure, there needs to be some alignment and parity between the two or something is surely off. The person rating themselves needs to be honest and forthright about how well they did and they need to have the overall knowledge necessary to even know if they did well or not. Similarly, the people that rate others need to all be using the same general perspective and lens when measuring the person being assessed. They need to be fair, even-handed yet brutally honest to the extent that they do not sugar-coat or gloss over what went right, what went…
