Veterans have experienced significant mental or behavioral health problems and, in turn, health services have been designed to respond to their needs by educating community health workers to work with veterans, service members and their families. As Zeiss & Karlin (2008) demonstrates, the health system has collaborated with national organizations, health services, resource administration, and other major mental health projects aimed at veterans to ensure effective services for mental health problems. There are many interprofessional roles aimed at veterans due to their wide range of mental health issues, including physicians, psychologists, social workers, substance abuse professionals, licensed counselors, public health workers, marriage and family therapists, nurses, chaplains, law enforcement and occupational therapists. Throughout this discussion, how veterans' mental health issues have been addressed will be limited to the nursing context to describe the scope, severity, behavioral health issues, and responses among veterans. In the context of nursing, nursing skills are required to manage veterans. 'mental health. The process of identifying prevalent mental health conditions and how to make interventions is very important to ensure full recovery. My desire for assistance had been long ingrained from childhood through school and now in the internship I found it useful and applicable in the case of veterans. Additionally, during my course I developed awareness of mental health issues versus psychological issues and was faced with the need to use these skills in interventions to reassure veterans' recovery. Nurses effectively addressed veterans' mental and behavioral problems. For… middle of the paper… those who have abused drugs and alcohol significantly need support and increased attention, even though they include a small portion of veterans with mental health problems. What we actually did when we were placed in veterinary centers was encourage veterans to assess their needs and develop a plan to meet the needs. As Brancu, Straits-Tröster & Kudler (2011) points out; Individual veterans are informed about different choices regarding available care and support. As a professional, a nurse is governed by a wide range of ethical considerations to ensure that veteran's patients are treated with respect and dignity. In turn, we needed to ensure veterans' autonomy in determining what to confide in and what to hide. Confidentiality and privacy are another very important ethical aspect that I felt should be taken into consideration to prevent private information from being disclosed to unintentional people.