Quiz #1: Theories & Therapies for Nursing Practice/Therapeutic Nurse-Patient Relationship/Legal & Ethics Flashcards
What are the types of admissions to psychiatric hospitals?
- Voluntary
2. Involuntary
Voluntary Admissions
- Patient applies for admission to the facility
- If < 18 y.o. parent/legal guardian may apply
- Patient retains all civil rights, including right to vote, have a driver’s license, buy and sell property, manage personal affairs, hold office, practice a profession and engage in a business
Involuntary Admissions
- Admission without patient’s consent
- Dangerous to self or others and/or unable to provide for own basic needs
- Can be initiated by HCP, family, police with the purpose of keeping pt and people around them safe
What is a Legal 2000 Hold in Nevada?
- Involuntarily admitted -> usually after 48H will determine if psych or drunk (e.g.)
- Now they are having psych NP in ER to help take off legal 2000 and discharge the patients if they don’t actually have a psych issue.
Legal 2000 Hold in Nevada affects the patients right to:
- Communicate with people outside the hospital
- Keep personal effects
- Enter into contractual relationship
- Education
- Habeas Corpus
- Privacy—HIPAA
- Informed consent
- Treatment
- Refuse treatment– Forcing medications (can refuse)
- Treatment in the least restrictive setting
Legal and Ethics: Incompetency
- Every adult is assumed to be mentally competent, meaning mentally able to carry out personal affairs
- To prove otherwise requires a court hearing
- If ruled incompetent, a person cannot vote, marry, drive or make contracts.
In order for a patient to be considered incompetent, they must show:
- Person has a mental disorder
- Disorder causes a defect in judgment
- Defect makes person incapable of handling personal affair
Sigmund Freud?
Personality Structures Levels of awareness Levels of Anxiety Defense mechanisms Stages of Psychosexual development Talk therapy Dream
Consciousness
Awareness in:
- Time (present time, what’s happening now!)
- Perceptions
- Thoughts
- Fantasies
- Memories and feelings
Preconsciousness
Easily can be retrieved through conscious efforts
Unconscious
- Repressed memories, passion, unacceptable urges, trauma, effect the feelings; need help to retrieve it.
- Unable to retrieve without help from professional. (Mind represses so you can’t remember because it brings the trauma or experience that comes with it)
Personality Structure: Freud believed there were 3
- ID
- Ego
- Super Ego
Personality Structure: ID
- Characterized by drive, instinct and reflexes
- Cannot tolerate frustration, seeks to discharge tension and operates in pleasure.
Personality Structure: Ego
-Described as a problem solver and reality tester.
-Negotiates with the world
-Reality principle
(In psych, we want the EGO reality more prominent than ID and superego.)
Personality Structure: Super Ego
- Moral component
- Conscience
- Operates in ideal
- Seeks perfections
- Inhibitory
Anxiety
- Inevitable part of living
- Damage of self and d/t insecurities, threats and threats to satisfaction.
Defense Mechanisms of Anxiety
- Ward anxiety off
- Operate on unconscious mostly, it denies, falsifies and distorts reality to decrease threat.
Psychosocial Stages of Development
- Oral Stage (0-1 years)
- Anal Stage (1-3 years)
- Phalic/Oedipal (3-6 years)
- Latency (6-12 years)
- Genital (12 and beyond)
Psychosexual Stages of Development: Oral Stage
- Satisfied orally.
- Age where ID and pleasure is the biggest.
Psychosexual Stages of Development: Anal Stage
- ID personality still present. Relief of discomfort identifies pleasure. Super ego may begin to develop (if restrictions are present).
- Defecation. Baby is able to exercise control.
- Best time for toilet training.