Mental Health Part 2 Of Chapter 1

Front 1

Managed Care

Back 1

A concept designed to purposely control the balance between the quality of care provided and the cost of that care.

Hint 1

Began in the 1970s People receive care based on need rather than on request.

Front 2

Managed Care Organizations

Back 2

Developed to control the expenditure of insurance funds by requiring providers to seek approval before the delivery of care.

Hint 2

Doctors have to get the ok from someone in a cubicle at the insurance company. I say BS

Front 3

Mental Health

Back 3

A state of emotional, psychological, and social wellness evidenced by satisfying relationships, effective behavior and coping, positive self-concept, and emotional stability.

Hint 3

Hard to define but acting appropriate for society

Front 4

Mental Illness

Back 4

A clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with present distress or disability or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom.

Hint 4

Anxiety disorders, schizsophrenia, depression, addictive disorders

Front 5

Phenomena of Concern

Back 5

Describe the 13 areas of concern that mental health nurses focus on when caring for clients.

Hint 5

Review page 8 box 1.2

Front 6

Self-awareness

Back 6

The process by which the nurse gains recognition of their own feelings, beliefs, and attitudes.

Hint 6

Being aware of one’s feelings, thoughts and values is a primary focus.

Ie: be aware if your views on abortion are different than client’s views, you need to separate your views from the clients.

Front 7

Social determinants

Back 7

Nonmedical factors that influence health, such as sense of community, access to adequate resources, intolerance of violence, support of diversity among people, mastery of the environment, education, employment, income and social protection, and food security.

Front 8

Standards of care

Back 8

Authoritative statements by professional organizations that describe the responsibilities for which nurses are accountable; the care that nurses provide to clients meets set expectations and is what any nurse in a similar situation would do.

Hint 8

Practices used to decide safe and acceptable practice and to access the quality of care

Front 9

Utilization review firms

Back 9

Formed in the 1990s

Developed to control the expenditure of insurance funds by requiring providers to seek approval before the delivery of care.

Hint 9

Also called Managed Care Organizations

Doctor has to get the ok from someone behind a desk at the insurance company before they can deliver care to a patient. BS

Front 10

Linda Richard’s (1873)

Back 10

Believed to be first American psychiatric nurse.

“She beloved that mentally sick should be at least as well cared for as the physically sick”

Front 11

Two early nursing theorists that shaped psychiatric nursing practice

Back 11

Hildegard Peplau

June Mellow

Hint 11

HP wrote about therapeutic nurse-client relationship and about anxiety

Mellow focused on clients’ psychosocial needs and strengths

Front 12

Dorothea Dix

Back 12

Began a crusade to reform the treatment of mental illness and opened 32 state hospitals that offered asylum to the suffering.

Hint 12

She believed society was obligated to those who were mentally ill