Quiz 1 and Midterm Flashcards
Mental health definition
- ability to recognize own potential
- cope with normal stress
- work productively
- make contribution to community
Mental health traits
- Think rationally
- communicate appropriately
- learn
- grow emotionally
- be resilient
- have a healthy self-esteem
- realistic goals and reasonable function within the individual’s roles
Mental illness
disorders with definable diagnosis
DSM-5
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition
- official guideline of the American psychiatric association for diagnosing psychiatric disorders
- identifies disorders based on specific criteria
Advocacy
- Advocate for self, patient safety, and respect
This includes: - report any abuse or neglect to authorities
- protect patients confidentiality
- support pt. right to make decisions about care
- be active and support associations r/t pt. care
- national and local legislation that affect pts. rights
- get involved in policy making
ID
- Primative and instinctual
- pleasure principle
- reflex action
- totally unconscious and impulsive
- source that drives all reflexes, instincts and needs
- lacks ability to solve problems and is illogical
EGO
- Problem solver and reality tester
- navigates the outside world
- Conscious self-awareness and strategy to gain pleasure of ID
SuperEGO
- Moral component
- seeks perfection, as opposed to seeking pleasure or engaging in reason
- develops at age 3-5
- unconscious self criticism (ideal self and inner voice)
- Controls ID impulses
Transference
unconscious feelings that the patient has towards a healthcare work that were originally felt in childhood for a significant other
Countertransference
unconscious feelings that a healthcare worker has towards the patient
Erikson’s Stage 1:
Trust vs. Mistrust
Age: 0-1.5
Forming attachment which lays the foundation for alter trust in others
Hope
Erikson’s Stage 2:
Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt
Age: 1.5-3
Gaining some basic self control of self and environment
Will
Erikson’s Stage 3:
Initiative vs Guilt
Age: 3-6
Becoming purposeful and directive
Purpose
Erikson’s Stage 4:
Industry vs. Inferiority
Age: 6-12
Developing social, physical, and school skills
Competence
Erikson’s Stage 5:
Identity vs. Role confusion
Age: 15-20
Transitioning from childhood to adulthood, developing a sense of identity
Fidelity
Erikson’s Stage 6:
Intamacy vs. Isolation
Age: 20-35
Establishing intimate bonds of love and friendship
Love
Erikson’s Stage 7:
Generativity vs. Self-absorption
Age: 35-65
Fulfilling life goals that involve family, career, and society and developing concerns that embrace the future
Care
Erikson’s Stage 8:
Integrity vs. Despair
Age: 65+
Looking back on life and accepting its meaning
Wisdom
Type of patient admitted to mental hospital
patients that are a risk to themselves or others
Cultural awareness
ability to work effectively in cross-cultural situations and provide the best possible service to patient from various different ethnic/racial backgrounds and who speak different languages
Cultural competence
Nurse adjust their practices to meet their patients cultural beliefs, practices, needs and preferences
Culturally sensitive
not assuming and actually getting to know the person
Confidentiality
ethical responsibility of healthcare professionals the prohibits the disclosure of privileged information with the patients consent
Right to treatment
- The right to quality care
- The right to be free from excessive or unnecessary medication
- The right to privacy and dignity
- The right to the least restrictive environment
- The right to an attorney, clergy, and private care providers
- the right to not be subjected to lobotomies, electroconvulsive treatments, and other treatments without fully informed consent
Right to refuse treatment
- patients can withdraw consent or withhold consent at any time even if they are involuntarily committed
- Emergencies: patient can be medicated without consent to prevent harm to the patient or others
Right to informed consent
- Informed consent: legal term - patient has been provided with basic information including benefits, risks, and alternatives to treatment
- providers responsibility to secure informed consent
- required for surgery, electroconvulsive treatment or the use of experimental drugs and procedures
Informed consent requirements
- the nature of the problem or condition
- the nature of purpose of a proposed treatment
- the risks and benefits of that treatment
- alternative treatment options
- the possibility that the proposed treatment will be successful
- the risks of not consenting
Implied consent
patient gestures a willingness to do something
Capacity and competency
- To provide informed consent, must have the capacity and competency
- Capacity: person’s ability to make informed decisions
- Competency: degree of mentally soundness a person has to make decisions or carry out specific acts
- Considered competent until proven incompetent
- Incompetent needs a legal guardian or representative to give consent
Rights Regarding Psychiatric Advance Directives
- Patients who experience an episode or severe mental illness can express their treatment wishes
- document prepared while patient is well
- designating someone to make their health decisions, preferences on medications, electroconvulsive therapy, admission into a psych facility, and who can visit them
Rights regarding restraint and seclusion
- Use the least restrictive means for the least amount of time
- Emergency: least restrictive does not need to be tried
- requires an order but nurse can place resistant first and request an order ASAP
Interventions before restraints
- verbally intervening
- reducing simulation
- actively listening
- providing diversion
- offering as needed medications
Orders on restraints
Orders must be renewed during a 24 hour periods and renewal time is based on age. Orders will dissolve after 24 hours and if the order is still needed the physician must physically assess the patient themselves.
- Older than 18: 4 hours
- 9-16: 2 hours
- under 9: 1 hour