Unit 1 - wellness/hc system/mha

Question 1

3 topics related to a healthy lifestyle

Answer 1

• healthy diet
• healthy activity
• stress reduction / management

Question 2

what is the Canada health act

Answer 2

• federal legislation for health care insurance that is publically funded.
• Its objective is to set out health care policy ‘to protect, promote, and restore the physical and mental well-being of residents of Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers

Question 3

primary prevention

Answer 3

Is aimed at preventing the onset of a disease/condition

Question 4

secondary prevention

Answer 4

Is aimed at early diagnosis and prompt treatment

Question 5

tertiary prevention

Answer 5

Is aimed at decreasing complications and negative health effects in an individual with established disease

Question 6

examples of primary prevention

Answer 6

Immunizations, bike helmets, car restraints (car seats for children), providing education and counseling regarding healthy lifestyles, diet, exercise, and stress reduction.

Question 7

examples of secondary prevention

Answer 7

Screening examinations for preclinical evidence of cancer using mammograms, and Papanicolaou (pap) smears

Question 8

examples of tertiary prevention

Answer 8

Medications and lifestyle changes to normalize blood glucose levels in patients with diabetes and to decrease cholesterol and triglycerides in patients with hyperlipidemia and heart disease

Question 9

primary care

Answer 9

• the element within primary health care that focuses on health care services, including health promotion, illness and injury prevention, and the diagnosis and treatment of illness and injury.
• examples of primary care services include visits to family physicians, consultations with nurse practitioners, telephone calls to health information lines, and advice received from pharmacists.

Question 10

what is psychosocial rehabilitation

Answer 10

refers to a range of social, educational, occupational, behavioral, and cognitive interventions to increase role performance and promote recovery in persons with a serious and persistent mental illness.

Question 11

what is case management

Answer 11

It is a collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation an advocacy for options and services to meet an individual’s health needs through communication and available resources to promote quality cost effective outcomes

Question 12

health informatics

Answer 12

a discipline at the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care. It deals with the resources, devices, and methods required optimizing the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine

Question 13

laws enacted by psych nurses

Answer 13

• Mental health act
• Hospital act
• Health professions Act
• HEALTH CARE (CONSENT) AND CARE FACILITY (ADMISSION) ACT

Question 14

2 main purposes of the MHA

Answer 14

• provide authority, criteria and procedures for involuntary admission and tx
• protect the rights of people involuntarily admitted by ensuring provisions are applied in an appropriate and lawful manner

Question 15

what are 3 methods of arranging for involuntary admission

Answer 15

• medical certificate (form #4)
• police intervention (section 28) = police apprehend person and take to a physician (usually in hospital) for examination who then determines if the patient is certifiable or not. If yes- then physician would complete a Form #4
• An order by a judge- if no judge is available- then a justice of the peace.
  Form 10 is completed by the judge
  Form 9 would is completed by anyone with a reason to believe a person meets criteria for involuntary admission.

Question 16

4 criteria for involuntary admission under Section 22

Answer 16

i. Suffering from a mental illness
ii. Requires psychiatric treatment in a designated facility
iii. Require care and supervision through designated facility to prevent the persons a substantial mental or physical deterioration or for the persons own protection and or the protection of others
iv. Not suitable as a voluntary patient.

Question 17

true or false it is necessary for a form #5 to be signed to provide involuntary psychiatric treatment

Answer 17

true - it is mandatory. it can be signed by pt but Pt can refuse and the director or designate can sign to give consent.

Question 18

What type of treatment does the Form 5 give consent to?

Answer 18

psychiatric tx

Question 19

what is a form #6

Answer 19

renewal certificate
- 1st = 1 month
- 2nd = 3 months
- 3rd = 6 months

Question 20

What is a form 11 and who completes it?

Answer 20

• pt. request for a 2nd opinion

Question 21

What is a form 13 and how often are staff required to give the form and review it with an involuntary patient?

Answer 21

Patients rights

a. to be given upon admission
b. transfers to another designated facility
c. when patients status changes from voluntary to involuntary status
d. when renewal certificates are completed

Question 22

What is a Form 21 and who completes the form?

Answer 22

Directors warrant- authorizes peace officers (police) to apprehend a person and take them to a designated facility.