George is a nurse who specializes in mental healthcare. One of his responsibilit

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George is a nurse who specializes in mental healthcare. One of his responsibilities is to visit patients at home to check that their treatment is effective and that they are not suffering from medication side effects.

On a day for home visits, George logs into the Mentcare system and uses it to print his schedule of home visits for that day, along with summary information about the patients to be visited. He requests that the records for these patients be downloaded to his laptop. He is prompted for his key phrase to encrypt the records on the laptop.

One of the patients that he visits is Jim, who is being treated with medication for depression. Jim feels that the medication is helping him but believes that it has the side effect of keeping him awake at night. George looks up Jim’s record and is prompted for his key phrase to decrypt the record. He checks the drug prescribed and queries its side effects. Sleeplessness is a known side effect so he notes the problem in Jim’s record and suggests that he visits the clinic to have his medication changed. Jim agrees so George enters a prompt to call him when he gets back to the clinic to make an appointment with a physician. George ends the consultation and the system re-encrypts Jim’s record.

After, finishing his consultations, George returns to the clinic and uploads the records of patients visited to the database. The system generates a call list for George of those patients who He has to contact for follow-up information and make clinic appointments.

List at least six features of the Mentcare System that you would need to test based on this scenario.

Explanation / Answer

Mental health is a level of psychological well-being, or an absence of mental illness. It is the "psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioural adjustment".

Social workers play many roles in mental health settings, including those of case manager, advocate, administrator, and therapist. The major functions of a psychiatric social worker are promotion and prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation. Social workers may also practice:

Division of Mental Health and Prevention of Substance Abuse

1. Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Mental Disorders
2. Access to Basic Mental Health Care
3. Mental Health Assessments in Accordance with Internationally Accepted Principles
4. Provision of the Least Restrictive Type of Mental Health Care
5. Self-Determination
6. Right to be Assisted in the Exercise of Self-Determination
7. Availability of Review Procedure
8. Automatic Periodical Review Mechanism
9. Qualified Decision-Maker
10. Respect of the Rule of Law

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