Psychiatric Nursing Part 2 (Pdf) Flashcards
regulates the internal organs and responsible for vital
functions such as regulation of blood gases and the maintenance of BP
BRAINSTEM
hunger, thirst and sex.
- thought & emotions
Hypothalamus
allows human to sleep and carry out conscious mental activity
RAS reticular Activating System
crucial role in emotional status and psychological
function (norepinephrine, serotonin, dopamine
Limbic system –
CEREBELLUM
Coordinated muscle energy & activity
🞂 Maintenance of equilibrium
🞂 Coordinates contraction
responsible for mental activities and a conscious sense
of being. Also responsible for language and the ability to communicate
CEREBRUM
responsible for conscious sensation and the
initiation of movement
Cerebral cortex
Parietal cortex
touch
Temporal
Sound
Occipital
Vision
Frontal
Initiation of Skeletal muscle contraction
responsible for thoughts, goal-oriented
oriented behavior & inhibition
- Seat of Personality
Prefrontal cortex
– regulation of movements
Basal ganglia
emotions, learning, memory
and basic drives
Amygdala and hippocampus
is present at the postsynaptic membrane and
destroys acetylcholine shortly after it attaches to nicotinic or muscarinic
receptors on the postsynaptic cell.
Acetylcholinesterase
monoamine transmitters norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin are all
inactivated in this manner by the enzyme,
monoamine oxidase.
involved fine muscle movements,
Decision making
Stimulate hypothalamus and release hormone
Dopamine
Decrease Dopamine
Parkinsons
Depression
Increase dopamine
Schizo
Mania
Decrease norephi
Depression
Increase norepi
Schizo
Anxiety
Mania
Role in sleep regulation, hunger, mood, and pain perception
Aggression and sexual behavior
Serotonin
Decrease serotonin
Depression
Increase serotonin
Anxiety
reduces aggression, excitation and anxiety
y-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
Decrease GABA
Anxiety
Schizo
Huntingtons
Inc - Anxiety
Excitatory, role in learning and memory
Glutamate
Decrease glutamate
Psychomimetic state resembles schizo
Increase glutamte
Improved cognitive performance in behavioral task
Decrease acteylcholine
Azheimer
Huntingtons
Parkinsons
Inc - Depression
Antidepressant and anti anxiety
Reinforces memory
Substance P
a specific channel for transmitting and
receiving messages
The use of silence
– self-awareness of one’s feelings
Genuineness
one understands the ideas expressed
Empathy
5 concepts of empathy
Human trait
◦ Professional state
◦ communication process
◦ caring process
◦ special relationship
ability to view another person as being
worthy of caring about & as someone who has strength & achievement
potential
Positive regard
consistently encourage
client to use their resources helps minimize the client’s feeling of
helplessness & dependency & also validates their potential for change
Helping client develop resources –
– the process whereby a person unconsciously
& inappropriately displaces onto individuals in his/her current life t
Transference
the tendency of the nurse to displace
onto the client feelings related to people in the nurse’s past
Countertransference
Common countertransference reaction
Boredom (indifference)
2. Rescue
to establish a client database & assess own feelings
regarding the client
PREORIENTATION PHASE
develop mutual trust, establish role of the nurse as
significant other to the client
ORIENTATION PHASE
Goal: identify & address client’s problem
WORKING PHASE
◦ Goal: identify & address cl
intervention designed to prevent clients from
harming themselves or others
Limit setting
Goal: assist client to review what was learned and to transfer
learning interaction with others
TERMINATION PHASE
Interaction with client behaviors
🞂 Violent behavior
Stay out of striking distance
Hallucinations
Provide reality but acknowledge behavior
◦ Assess the hallucination based on content of the messages
Delusions
Clarify the meaning of the delusions then ignore
Conflicting values
Help client examine the effects or outcomes of their beliefs on
their lives, relationship, and happiness
Severe anxiety & incoherent speech
Spend frequent, brief time with patients, offer support, and
build trust
Provide limit setting
◦ Help client express their needs directly to others
Manipulation
Crying
Unless a form of manipulation, allow client to cry
◦ Provide privacy
◦ Be quiet and unobtrusive
Sexual innuendos or inappropriate touch
◦ Remind client these actions are inappropriate
Denial & lack of cooperation
Reality testing & supportive confrontation with denial
Depressed affect, apathy, & psychomotor retardation
Patience, frequent contact, and empathy
◦ Encourage hygiene, proper nutrition and gradual increase in
activities
◦ Postponed major decisions until emotions have subsided
Suspiciousness
Communicate clearly, simply, and congruently.
◦ Clarify misinterpretation
◦ Provide simple rationale or explanations for rules, activities,
occurrences, noises and requests
Hyperactivity
Patient should be in a quiet area, with minimal auditory &
visual stimulation
◦ Remain calm, speak slowly and softly & respect patient’s
personal space
Nurses must be open and clear
◦ State action that they cannot meet patient’s need
◦ Limit setting
Transference & countertransference
Consists of treatment by means of control modification of the
client’s environment to promote positive experiences
Milieu Management
Friendly, warm, trusting, secure, supportive, comforting
atmosphere throughout the uni
Characteristics of milieu therapy
Elements of Milieu therapy
SSNLB
Safety
Structure
Norms
Limit settings
Balance
should be set on acting-out behavior
◦ Reinforces the norms of making rules & expectations clear &
encourage the milieu therapy concept—responsibility to self
Limit settings –
Group of conditions in which the affected person experiences
persistent anxiety that the person cannot dismiss and that interferes with
daily activities
ANXIETY DISORDERS
Characterized by excessive chronic anxiety or worry & might concern everyday events
GENERAL ANXIETY DISORDER
restlessness. Fatigue, poor concentration, irritability, muscle tension, sleep disturbance, physical symptoms (dry mouth, upset stomach)
GENERAL ANXIETY DISORDER
Milieu mgt: for GAD
Recreational activities
● Relaxation exercises, meditation & biofeedback
● CBT
● Therapeutic touch & acupressure
recurrent panic attack & are worried about having more attacks
PANIC DISORDERS
eelings of terror that function is suspended, perceptual field is severely limited & misinterpretation of reality
Panic disorder with agoraphobia
intense, excessive anxiety or fear about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing or in which help might not be available if panic attack occurs
Agoraphobia
Psychotherapeutic mgt: Reduce immediate anxiety
Stay physically close to patient use simple sentences, firm voice, remove to smaller quiet room to minimize stimuli
Psychopharmacology Panic disorder without agoraphobia
SSRI
● Benzodiazepine (clonazepam, lorazepam) – immediate effect
persistent thoughts, impulses, images or desires that maybe trivial or morbid
Obsession
repetitive stereotyped behavior that are performed in a particular manner in response to an obsession
Compulsion
Etiology OCD
genetic, increase brain activity in the frontal lobe & basal ganglia, serotonin dysregulation
NPR for OCD
Accept rituals permissively
Avoid criticism or punishment, making demands, showing
Psychopharmacology OCD
Antidepressant:
o Clomipromine (anafranil)
● SSRI – fluoxetine (Prozac), setraline (Zoloft), fluovoxamine (Luvox) & paroxetine (Plaxil)
Milieu mgt for OCD
Relaxation exercises & stress mgt.
● Recreational or social skills
● CBT, problem-solving & communication or assertive training groups
Intense, irrational, persistent fear responses to an external object activity or situation
PHOBIC DISORDERS
response to experience anxiety & is characterized by a persistent fear of specific places or things
Phobia
fear of being in public or open spaces places or situations in which escape might be difficult or help might not be available
Agoraphobia with history of panic disorders
fear of being humiliated, scnrutinized, or embarrassed in public
Social phobia
fear of a specific object or situation that is not either of the above
Specific phobia
NPR for Phobias
Accept patient & their fears with a non-critical attitude
● Provide & involve patient in activities that do not increase anxiety but increase involvement, rather that promote avoidance
● Help client with physical safety and comfort
● Help patient recognize that their behavior is a method of avoiding anxiety
Psychoparma for SSRI for Phobia
to reduce anxiety & depression & block panic attacks, if present
Milieu mgt for Phobia
Assertive training & goal-setting groups
● Social skills group to help redevelop social skills and decrease avoidance
● Behavior therapy – systemic desensitization, flooding, exposure, and self-exposure
Develop after exposure to a clearly identifiable traumatic event that threatens the self, others, resources, and/or sense of control or hope
ACUTE STRESS DISORDER & POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDERS
symptoms occur within 1 month of extreme stressor; includes dissociative symptoms (depersonalization, emotional detachment., dazed appearance, amnesia
ACUTE STRESS SYNDROME
severe traumatic event that is not an ordinary occurrence e.g.. Rape, fire, flood, earthquake, tornado, bombing, plane crash, war, torture, kidnapping
POST STRESS DISORDER
4 diagnostic criteria for PTSD
- Dissociative symptoms & numbing
- Reexperiencing the trauma & intrusive memories – hallucinations
- Arousal symptoms
- Other symptoms
● Anxiety or panic attack
grief, depression, suicidal ideation or attempts, impulsive self-destructive behavior, anxiety-relate disorders & substance abuse
PTSD
Psychotherapeutic mgt: prevent or minimize the symptoms
1. NPR: for PTSD
DEVELOP TRUST
Nurse needs to be non-judgmental honest, emphatic, and supportive
● Teach dynamics of ASD & PTSD
● Exposure therapy & systematic desensitization
● Expressive therapy (art, music, poetry) – facilitate externalizing painful emotions that are difficult to verbalize
● Crisis counselling –
Psychopharma for PTSD
● Benzodiazepine (clonazepam, lorazepam) – to reduce level of anxiety and fear. Help with sleep disturbance
● Clonidine & propanolol – diminish the peripheral autonomic response associated with fear, anxiety & nightmare
● Lithium carbonate – prescribed to patients experiencing explosive outburst
● SSRI (paroxetine, setraline, fluoxetine) – decrease repetitive behaviors, disturbing images & somatic states
● TCA – depression, adehonia & sleep disturbances ● Antipsychotic (respirodone) – psychotic thinking
Milieu mgt for PTSD
Social activities
● Recreational & exercise program ● Group therapy
Characterized by the presence of physiologic complaints or symptoms, ● which are not under voluntary control & no demonstrable organic finding ● and physiologic bases
F. SOMATOFORM DISORDERS 1. NPR:
Conversion of mental states or experiences into bodily symptoms associated with anxiety
◦ Recurrent, frequent & multiple somatic complaints for several years without physiologic cause
Types: 1. Somatization disorder
Associated with psychological factors like severe pain in one or more of anatomical sites that causes significant distress or impairment in functioning
◦ Pain is exaggerated or out of proportion
Pain disorder
Worried & belief that they have serious disorders base on the misinterpretation of bodily signs & sensation for at least 6 months
◦ Preoccupation persists despite appropriate medical tests & reassurances
Hypochrondiasis
Individual is preoccupied with an imagined defect in appearance which are usually facial flaws.
◦ Dermatologist & plastic surgeon is often consulted
◦ May also exhibit obsessive compulsive traits & depressive syndrome
- Body dysmorphic disorder
NPR for Somatoforms
Use matter-of-fact caring approach
Encourage patient to verbalize & describe feeling
Use positive reinforcement & set limits
Do not push awareness of or insight into conflicts or problems
Milieu for Somatoform
Relaxation exercises meditation and CBT
● Family therapy