11.5 Legal Mental Health Act

Front 1

Which is incorrect regarding "Capacity"?
A. Capacity is the ability to decide
B. There are 4 steps to deciding capacity.
C. A patient must have the ability to understand, retain information, weigh-up, and communicate their decision relating to the decision

required.
D. Capacity regards the specific decision being made.

Back 1

D. Capacity = the patient's ability to decide that is the issue - not the decision itself.

Front 2

In regards to The Emergency Department and Mental Health, which is incorrect?
A. 1% of attendances to ED in Australia are due to mental illness.
B. The ED is frequently the "Interface" between the Community and the Mental Health System.
C. Mental Health Legislation is a State Jurisdiction.
D. The Victorian Mental Health Act is dated 1986-with amendments in 2007.

Back 2

A. 5% of ED attendances are due to mental

illness

Front 3

Which is incorrect regarding Emergency Mental Health Issues?
A. In Victoria, Mental illness is characterised by a medical condition with significant disturbance in thought, mood, perception and memory.
B. When a person is so mentally or behaviourally disordered from drugs/alcohol that risk of harm to self is high-then detaining under the Mental Health Act is possible.
C. Involuntary admission = Assessment Order = State dependent Titles that all mean the same process.
D. Recommendation is valid for only 24 hours after being signed by the Doctor.

Back 3

D. 72 Hours

Front 4

Which of the following is not considered in the Victorian standard definition of mental

illness?
A. Disturbance of Perception
B. Disturbance of Thought
C. Disturbance of Mood
D. Disturbance of Time

Back 4

D.

Front 5

Which is incorrect regarding "Assessment

Order"?
A. The treating Emergency Doctor may use sedation or restraint to

enable a patient to be taken safely to a Mental Health Service.
B. Once admitted , the patient must be seen by a Registered Psychiatrist within 48 hours.
C. The admitting Emergency Doctor must sign / fill an Assessment Order for the detention of the patient.

D. The admitting Psychiatrist can discharge the patient after the first

review post Involuntary detention.

Back 5

B. 24

Front 6

Which of the following Health Providers cannot restrain a person in Victoria, in order to

safely transport the patient to a Mental Health Service?
A. Ambulance Officer
B. Nursing Staff
C. Police
D. Doctor.

Back 6

B.

Front 7

Which is incorrect regarding Mental Health

detainment?
A. Police powers allow reasonable force, including entering premises, if they believe a person to be mentally ill and require to be moved to a 'place of safety'
B. The Australian States have a wide variability in the details of their

Mental health Acts.
C. According to the States' various Mental Health Acts, Legal proceedings can be made against Doctors,who have "Recommended" or "Committed" a patient.
D. The Death of a patient under a Mental Health Act must be referred to the Coroner at all times.

Back 7

C. "legal proceedings cannot be brought against Doctors acting 'In Good Faith' and with 'Reasonable Care', within the provisions of the Mental Health Act."