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Standard lab

Metabolicprofile, urinalysis, complete blood count, thyroid function, pregnancy test forany patient of childbearing years

Electrolyte testing

Potassium and sodium levels can cause mental changes

Toxicology

Drug screening on admission for legal and illegal drugs (serum)

Brain imaging

MRI, PET scan, etc.

Type of memory mental health most commonly effects

Short-term memory

Thought blocking

Echolalia

Repeating of the last words spoken by another; mimicry or imitation of the speech of another person

Echopraxia

Mimicry or imitation of the movements of another person

Perseveration

Involuntary repetition of the same thought, phrase, or motor response; associated with brain damage

Verbigeration

Pressured speech

Putting a lot of emphasis on their speech

Neologisms

Words a person makes up that have meaning only for the person; often part of a delusional system

Flight of ideas

Continuous flow of speech in which the person jumps rapidly from one topic to another

Looseness of association

Focus is on a topic but the ideas don't fit together in a logical way

Circumstantiality

Circumferential

Mutism

May only provide one or two word statements even though there is nothing wrong with the speech apparatus

Word salad

A mixture of words meaningless to the listener and the speaker as well

Tangenital

Delusions

A false belief held to be true even with evidence to the contrary

Illusions

Errors in the perception of a sensory stimulus

Hallucinations

A sense perception for which no external stimulus exists (seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling or smelling)

Thought broadcasting

Thought insertion

Depersonalization

A phenomenon whereby a person experiences a sense of unreality of or estrangement from the self (seeing self in the distance)

Derealization

The false perception by a person that his or her environment has changed (bigger, smaller, etc.

Ideas of reference

The false impression that outside events have special meaning for oneself

Magical thinking

Nihilism

Phobia

Fear associated with fairly common situations

Obsessions

Preoccupation with certain thoughts

Compulsions

Ritualistic behavior

Self-destructive thoughts and behavior

Suicidal or homicidal thoughts

Affect

The external manifestation of a feeling or emotion that is manifested in facial expression, tone of voice, and body language

Suicide assessment

1. Have you ever thought about killing yourself? (Ideation)


2. Do you have a plan? (Plan)


3. Does the person have the means or resources to carry out their plan? (Resources)


4. How likely is the plan to end in death? (hanging, gun, overdose)

Objective tests

MMPI


California Personality Inventory

Intelligence tests

Wechsler adult intelligence scale (WAIS)


Wechslet intelligence scale of children (WISC)

Depression scale

Beck depression inventory

Projective tests

Sentence completion Test (SCT)


Draw a person


Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)


Rorschach Test

Mental health

A state of well-being in which each individual id able to realize his or her own potential, cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively and make a contribution to the community

Mental illness

A clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome marked by the patient's distress or disability or the risk of suffering disability or loss of freedome

Resilience

The ability to adapt and cope that helps people to face tragedies, loss, trauma, and severe stress

Mental health continuum

A conceptual line used to represent levels of mental health and mental illness that vary from person to person and vary for a particular person over time

Four major areas of mental health/illness

Happiness, control of behavior, self-concept, and reality testing

Happiness positive

1. Life is enjoyable


2. Sees objects, people, and activities as possibilities for meeting one's needs

Happiness negative

1. Mood is depressed


2. Major depressive disorder


3. Loss of interest in usual activities

Control of behavior positive

1. Recognizes and acts upon cues to existing limits

Control of behavior negative

1. Adjustment disorders


2. Repetitive, persistent, aggressive behavior violating the rights of others

Self-concept positive

1. Sees self as approaching one's ideals, capable of meeting demands


2. Reasonable degree of self-confidence, helpful, resourceful under stress

Self-concept negative

1. Dependent personality


2. Passively allows other to assume responsibility for major areas of life because of inability to function independently


3. Lacks self-confidence, helpless and stupid (learned)

Reality testing

1. Accurate picture of what's happening around them


2. Sense of consequences of one's behavior


3. Sees the difference between "as if" and "for real" situations

Recovery process

1. Self-directed


2. Person-centered


3. Empowering


4. Holistic


5. Nonlinear


6. Strength based


7. Peer-supported


8. Respect


9. Responsibility


10. Hope

Self-directed

Patient is involved in their own care but patient's involvement is dependent upon their mental illness

Surgeon General's Report on Mental Illness

1. Mental health is fundamental to overall health


2. There are effective treatments for mental illness

Human Genome project

Strengthened biological and genetic explanation for psychiatric conditions

President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health goals

1. Streamlined care delivery


2. Early diagnosis and Rx


3. New expectations for recovery principals


3. Increased assistance

Institute of Medicine

Highlights effective treatment methods, addresses the gap between best and worst care, problems of coerced treatment, treats mental health issues separate from physical,

Institute of Medicine recommendations

Mental health care be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable

Mental Health Parity Act

Does not require mental health coverage from any insurance but any company that provides mental health care must do so in the same manner as med/surg coverage

Incidence

Number of new cases

Prevalence

Total number of cases, new and existing

Co-morbid conditions

More than one mental illness

Elements of a diagnosis

Diagnostic criteria and descriptors


Sub-types


Specifiers

Nursing process goal

Identifying appropriate, safe, culturally competent, developmentally relevant, quality care for individuals, families, groups and communities

Nursing process theoretical foundations

Developmental


Psychodynamic


Systems


Holistic


Cognitive


Biological

Basic care

1. Coordination of care


2. Health teaching


3. Milieu therapy


4. Pharmacological, biological and integrative therapies

Advanced care

1. Prescriptive authority


2. Psychotherapy


3. Consultation

Id

One's instinct

Ego

Problem solving, reality

Super-ego

Moral component

Conscious

Person is aware of

Unconscious

Repressed memories, feelings, thoughts, wishes

Preconscious

Unconscious thoughts/memories that are available for retrieval to the conscious at any time

Psychoanalytical theory

Human behavior is to seek pleasure and avoid pain

Psychoanalytical theory defense mechanisms

All unconscious except supression, mental defense for anxiety-serve to deny, falsify, or distort reality to make it less treatening

Psychoanalytical theory symptoms

Internal conflict arising from early childhood trauma and failure of developmental tasks, which lead to vulnerability in adults to situation stressors

Psychoanalytical theory treatment

Clarify meaning of events - uncover past conflicts - transference

Freud's Stages: oral stage

0-12 months


Oral gratification, sucking

Freud's Stages: rectal stage

1-3 years


Rectal gratification, control of bowel movement

Freud's Stages: phallic stage

3-6 years


Genital fixation and concentration

Freud's Stages: latency stage

6-11 years


Repression of sexual feelings and memories

Freud's Stages: puberty

11-18 years


Rise in sexual energy, independence from parents

Erickon's Stages: 0-18 months

Trust vs. Mistrust

Erickson's Stages: 18 months - 3 years

Autonomy vs. Shame and doubt

Erickson's Stages: 3-8 years

Initiative vs. Guilt

Erickson's Stages: 6-11 years

Industry vs. Inferiority

Erickson's Stages: 11-20 years

Identity vs. Role Confusion

Erickson's Stages: 18-25 years

Intimacy vs. Isolation

Erickson's Stages: 45 years - death

Ego integrity vs. Dispair

Piaget's Theory: 0-2 years

Sensorimotor intelligence

Piaget's Theory: 2-7 years

Preoperational thought

Piaget's Theory: 7-11 years

Concrete operations

Piaget's Theory: 11 years - adulthood

Formal operations

Relevance of Piaget's Theory

1. Connection between sensory motor development andcognition
2. Concrete thinkers until age 12 when ability toconceptualize is developed in many mental illness patients are concretethinkers
3. Applies to children

Psychiatric nurse theorist

Hildeguard Peplau

Interpersonal relationships in nursing concept

Human means interacting with others-anxiety is interpersonallycause - growth is possible - Families can contribute to comfort, be a supportsystem, can do both

Interpersonal relationships in nursing symptoms

Are a response to anxiety arising frominterpersonal relationships-family perspective, system is disturbed, individualmerely reflects family problem

Interpersonal relationships in nursing treatment

Help individual cope within socialsystem-improve communication and relationships-use of family therapy (Yalom)useof group therapy

Therapeutic nurse-patient relationship

Mutual learning experience and a corrective emotional experience for the patient

Therapeutic goals/outcomes

1. Developself realization, self acceptance, and general self-respect


2. Developclear sense of personal identity and improved personal integration


3. Developability to initiate and form interdependent interpersonal relationships


4. Improvefunctioning and ability to meet, satisfy personal needs and achieve realisticpersonal goals

Roles of psychiatric nursing

1. Resource person


2. Teacher


3. Counselor


4. Leader

Domains of psychiatric nursing practice

1. Direct care


2. Communication


3. Management


4. Teaching


5. Coordination


6. Delegation


7. Collaboration

Humanistic theory

Doctrineor attitude or way of life centered on human intent, values, philosophy thatasserts that the dignity and worth of man and his capacity for self realizationthrough reason.

Oftenrejects super-naturalization of “GOD” and rejects the “spiritual” aspects of man

Maslow's Theory of Basic Needs

1. Physiological needs


2. Safety and security


3. Loving and belonging


4. Esteem and self-esteem


5. Self-actualization

Existentialist Theory

Humanbeings are seen to be motivated primarily to satisfy basic needs and to fullfill certain aspirations. The payoff forsuch satisfaction and full-fillment is a sense of personal wholeness andwell being

Twogroups, one a spiritual approach and another atheistic (non spiritualapproach)

Existentialist perspective

Freedom and responsibility
Death and human limitation
Isolation and Connectedness
Meaning vs. Meaninglessness
Emotions and Experience

Learning theory

Piaget


Wolpe


Skinner

Pavlov Classical

Conditioning-arenot under conscious personal control , not personal choices

Watson

Personalitytraits and responses are adaptive/maladaptive, were socially learned throughclassical conditioning, anyone can be trained to be anything.

Skinner Operant conditioning

Voluntarybehavior is learned through consequences. Behaviorresponses elicited through reinforcement-causes behavior to occur morefrequently.

Behavioral Theory Symptoms

Learned behavior that is maintained because it is reinforced

Behavioral Theory Treatment

Modify behaviorby manipulating environment-treat overt behavior only-set up schedule ofre-enforcers

Behavioral Theory Strategies

Use of systemic desensitization, aversiontherapy (antibuse RX), modelingnurse, other helpers, role modelidentified behavior biofeedback

Cognitive Theory

Focus on dispelling patient's irrational beliefs and distorted attitudes

Rational emotive therapy

Eradicateemotional beliefs by helping people recognize thoughts that are not accurate,sensible, or useful

Biopsychosocial Theory

Mentalillness isdue to dysfunction of physiological process of the brain

Milieu Therapy

Health of each individual is realized andencouraged to grow
Every interaction is an opportunity fortherapeutic intervention
Patient owns his or her ownenvironment-makes decisions and solve problems
Patient owns his or her behavior-takeresponsibility for his/her behavior

Interpersonal relationships theory

Hildeguard Peplau

Interpersonal and interactive skills theory

Erickson

Science of caring

Watson

Self-Care deficit theory

Orem


Self-carerequisites, self-care agency, self-care demand, self-care deficit, nursingagency

Adaptation Model

Roy


System,environment, health, & nursing elements


Adaptivemodes: physiological, self-concept, role function, interdependence

Neuman's System Model

Neuman


Person,lines of resistance, stressor, prevention Intrapersonal,interpersonal, extra-personal stressors

Science of Unitary Human Beings

Rogers


Human/environment interplay


Integrality, resonance, helices

Theory of Human Becoming

Parse


Paradoxes: revealing-concealing, enabling-limiting,connecting-separating

Expanding Human Consciousness

Newman


Choice point, patterns, health,body-dynamic energy

Cultural Care Diversity

Leninger


Culture care, folk systems, preservation,accommodation, re-pattering, and restructuring