Post-Testing Stress Disorder?
This symptom of PTSD includes flashbacks, bad dreams, and/or frightening thoughts.
What is a re-experiencing symptom?
Youth who are transitioning from this type of family structure are at high risk for homelessness.
What is foster care?
These veterans are at higher risk of having difficulty transitioning to civilian life and held non-leadership positions during their service.
What is noncommissioned, enlisted, or low-ranking military personnel?
Wage increases.
What is an upstream intervention?
These factors are believed to be the root causes or etiology of mental illness.
What are biological (genetics and brain structure/function), social (trauma, stigma, incarceration, discrimination), and political factors (access to insurance and mental health service providers)?
This PTSD symptom includes staying away from certain places, events, or objects and steering clear of thoughts or feelings that might remind someone of a traumatic event.
What is an avoidance symptom?
Risk factors for death from homelessness include these serious chronic health conditions -- they might be cared for on the 4-Medical unit at SRHC.
What is cirrhosis, end-stage renal disease, HIV/AIDs?
Another risk factor for poor transition to non-military life includes this age demographic.
Who are younger veterans?
Helping a family find an apartment in their budget.
What is a downstream intervention?
These would be the symptoms of a panic attack.
What is tachycardia, dyspnea, dizziness, chest pain, nausea, paresthesia, trembling, diaphoresis, feelings of being choked or a sense of impending doom or impulsiveness?
Examples of these PTSD symptoms include being easily startled, feeling tense or on-edge, difficulty sleeping, and angry outbursts.
What are arousal and reactivity symptoms?
Clients at high-risk for death from homelessness include those with these conditions, often encountered on the BHU at Salina Regional.
What is chronic mental illness, history of suicide attempt, and drug or alcohol abuse?
This level of education can be a protective factor associated with an easier time transition back to civilian life for a vet.
What is a college graduate?
Resolving or removing access barriers.
What is an upstream intervention?
Knowing these risk factors and early warning signs for suicide are essential in saving lives.
What are previous attempts or family history of attempts or completed suicide, isolation, depression/anxiety, alcohol/substance abuse, excess stress or personal crisis, impulsive/risky behavior, access to means of suicide (i.e. pills or weapons), feelings of hopeless, purposeless, and/or trapped.
These PTSD symptoms include trouble recalling features of a traumatic event, negative thoughts about oneself or the world, distorted feelings of guilt or blame, and loss of interest in typically enjoyable activities.
What are cognition and mood symptoms?
Nurses who notice these admission patterns will know that these homeless clients are at high-risk for death.
What is more than 3 hospitalizations or ER visits in a year?
This type of personal outlook or personality will assist veterans in their transition out of military service.
What is a planner, having a mission-oriented and orderly mindset in relation to transitioning to civilian life, and not viewing military service as a career or vocation?
Alcoholic Anonymous groups.
What is a downstream intervention?
These are factors that contribute to an individual developing PTSD.
What are getting injured or seeing another person injured, viewing a dead body, feeling helpless, having little or no social support after a traumatic event, dealing with extra stress after the event (e.g., loss of a loved one, pain and injury), or having a history of mental illness or substance abuse?
These are the numbers of each type of symptom that must be present in order for a client to meet DSM-5 criteria for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
What is 1 re-experiencing symptom, 1 avoidance symptom, 2 arousal and reactivity symptom, and 2 cognition and mood symptoms?
This strategy interrupts the cycle of incarceration to homelessness for veterans and increases success not only for treatment of drug and psychiatric disorders, but also gaining steady employment.
What is a housing-first orientation, or providing stable housing to veterans regardless of sobriety, poor credit, financial situation, or criminal history?
This experience reduces the likelihood that a veteran will have an easy transition from military to civilian life by 26%.
What is an emotional trauma while on active duty?
Development of community leaders and coalitions.
What is an upstream intervention?
This model describes effective collaborations existing between nurses and clients with a disability. It recognizes that a person who lives with a disability commonly becomes an expert at knowing what works best for their body.
What is the Intersystem Model (concept of "Knowledgeable Client" vs. "Knowledgeable Nurse")?