Mental Health Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Factors affecting Mental health | inherited characteristics, life circumstances, nurturing |
Life circumstances can be either: | positive or negative |
ways to maintain mental health | interpersonal communication, ego defense mechanisms, significant others/support, personal strategies |
3 ways for an adult to admitted psychiatrically | voluntary, emergency or involuntary |
voluntary psychiatric admission | client requests or is willing to be admitted and accepts treatment |
involuntary admission | client is admitted against their will when less drastic measures are not appropriate; legal process involving a formal petition and a determination made in court |
emergency admission | occurs when the client acts in a way that indicates they are mentally ill and pose a danger to themselves or others; each state differs on the procedure, but typically it is a set amount of time a person can be held. |
areas of potential liability for a nurse with mental health patients | homicide, controlled substance violation, fraud, theft, defamation, assault, battery, invasion of privacy, false imprisonment, negligence |
elopement | client runs away from facility; caregivers may be held liable if injury occurs to anybody |
duty to warn | in situations where harm or death may occur, mental health care workers have a duty to protect potential victims from harm or death. |
what is added and focused on in an assessment of a patient in a mental health facility | Mental status exam; includes: general description, emotional state, experience/perceptions, thinking, sensorium/cognition, intellectual ability, judgment |
nursing diagnosis this semester related to mental health | anxiety, dist. body image, impaired verbal comm., acute/chronic confusion, ineffective coping, R/F injury, impaired memory, chronic low self-est, social isolation, disturbed sensory perception, R/F suicide, R/F (other/self) directed violence, wandering |
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