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NURS 222 - Mental Health Week 1 Theory Questions & Detailed Answers 2024
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NURS 222 - Mental Health Week 1 Theory NotesNURS 222 - Mental Health Week 1 Theory
• At what point would a patient go from outpatient to inpatient behavioral health?
(POSSIBLE TEST QUESTION)
o 3 reasons to be on a psychiatric hold (5150 – 72 Hour hold)
1. Danger to self (DTS)
2. Danger to others (DTO)
3. Gravely disabled (GD)
• Can’t provide food, clothing and shelter due to a mental illness
• Some patients will get discharged to the streets if GD
• Patients will be offered shelter and some will decline and
be discharged on the street
o Interference of basic functioning
o Family or police may get involved
o Examples: Depressed, trouble getting out of bed, fall behind in class,
not showing up to clinicals, getting letters of concern
o LEAST RESTRICTIVE MEASURES are taken before most restrictive
• Psychiatrist
• Outpatient
• What are traits of mental health?
o Effective coping
o Self-control
o Self-awareness
o Being developmentally on task (Erikson’s development)
o Positive self-concept
o Able to learn
o RESILIENCE
o Mental health is…
• Culturally defined and changes over time
• Derives from socially accepted norms
• What can be said about mental illness? (POSSIBLE TEST QUESTION)
o Changes with culture
o Time and history
o Political systems
o Groups defining it
• What best explains the concept of cultural competence?
o Nurse adjust their own practice beneath their patients cultural preferences,
beliefs and practices
• What are important traits to have when dealing with patients?
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o Confidence and competence
• What is the best definition of what mental illness is?
o Diathesis stress model
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