basics Flashcards
What are the 3 components of a mental health nursing diagnosis?
- Problem (unmet need)
- Etiology (probable cause)
- Supporting data (signs and symptoms)
T or F: MSE reflects a patients past or predicts their future
F: captures a patient’s current state
Difference between affect and mood
- Mood is a sustained emotional experience and tends to colour the person’s perception of the world. (individuals emotional state)
- Affect is an individual’s emotional state at the present, inferred by the clinician and described by the observed expression of inner feeling (expression of emotion)
Define thought broadcasting
think people can hear their thoughts
Define thought insertion
can hear others thoughts
What are grandiose delusions?
unfounded or inaccurate beliefs that one has special powers, wealth, mission, or identity
What are ideas of reference?
false beliefs that random or irrelevant occurrences in the world directly relate to oneself. When someone believes their thoughts, actions, or presence caused something to occur, irrational thoughts are considered ideas of reference
What is the criteria for admission certification?
- Is suffering from mental disorder
- Has the potential to benefit from treatment from the mental disorder
- Is, within a reasonable time, likely to cause harm to others to suffer negative effects, including substantial mental or physical deterioration or serious physical impairment
- Is unsuitable for admission to a facility other than as a formal patient.
What is a maturational crisis?
Having difficulty with dealing with life cycle events/changes such as adolescence, marriage, relationships, developing family.
What is a situational crisis?
Sudden change in environment that triggers stress such as loss of job, unexpected pregnancy, death in family, severe illness
What is a adventitious crisis?
Is unplanned and accidental event not apart of everyday life such as a natural disaster (flood, earthquake); national disaster (war, terrorist attack; and/or a violent crime (rape, assault, child abuse)
What are the five universal truths?
- All people want to be treated with dignity and respect
- All people want to be asked rather than being told to do something
- All people want to be told why they are being asked to do something
- All people want to be given options rather than threats
- All people want a second chance when they make a mistake
What is included in prevention strategies for de-escalation?
- self-awareness
- patient education
- assertiveness training
What is included in anticipatory strategies for de-escalation?
- communication
- environmental change
- behavioural actions
- psychopharmacology
What is included in containment strategies for de-escalation?
- crisis management
- seclusion
- restraints
