Mental Health
A condition that affects a person's thinking, feeling, behavior or mood. These conditions deeply impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others.
What is mental illness?
True or False: Medication and therapy are the most successful tools in dealing with mental health challenges.
What is TRUE?
When providing care for a depressed patient, what assessment data warrants immediate attention from the nurse?
What is suicidal ideation?
True or False: medication is the only treatment method that works for mental health problems.
False: medication can be helpful, but therapy and counseling are also effective forms of overcoming mental illness.
Intense therapy that brings unconscious thoughts to the surface.
What is psychoanalysis?
Which educational brochure is the nurse most likely to prepare for a patient who has seasonal affective disorder?
What is "How Phototherapy Helps Relieve Your Symptoms"?
This is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act.
Depression
True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental illness like depression or anxiety.
What is FALSE?
True or False: People with mental health challenges have to take special tests to get a job or buy a house.
What is FALSE?
A 70-year-old patient is in the hospital for pneumonia and has been taking sertraline (Zoloft) for 1 year for depression. On the third day of her hospitalization, the patient has a pulse rate of 100 beats/mon., demonstrates trembling in her hands, and has an oral temperature of 103 degrees F, and is diaphoretic. What is the nursing assessment?
What is Serotonin syndrome?
Hopelessness and helplessness can lead to what?
What is suicidal ideation?
In disaster planning and management, which intervention is recommended to prevent post-traumatic stress disorder?
What is debriefing immediately after a traumatic event?
A symptom of depression is a persistently ____ mood.
WHAT IS SAD or DEPRESSED or UNHAPPY
Expressing good things from your day is a coping strategy known as ________
Gratitude
Where could you locate the names of the RN's and MHT's
What is whiteboard?
BONUS: 300 POINTS
True or false: all stress is bad.
False. Some stress can be motivating and is a natural reaction your body has to certain events. It can sometimes give us an "extra push". When stress becomes too much to handle, that might be an indication to start making some positive mental health changes
Helps recover deeply repressed emotions.
What is hypnosis?
The nurse is assessing a patient and notices tooth erosion and callused knuckles. Which behavior would the nurse watch for around mealtimes?
Self-induced vomiting
Impulsively buying things on Amazon and staying up for days is commonly associated with this.
What is Mania or Bipolar?
A patient is a broker on Wall Street who smokes half a pack of cigarettes a day. He avoids caffeine because he has trouble sleeping. He also often complains of an aching lower back. His physician could not find anything wrong physically. What is a possible cause of his back pain?
What is Psychophysiologic origins?
The main function of this professional is to aid in problem-solving, living arrangements and promote social change. They work with people to enhance their ability to function in society.
What is a Social Worker
The nurse is assessing a patient admitted with depression. Which symptoms would the nurse expect the patient to exhibit?
What is Extreme Fatigue.
A person with this diagnosis has a very hard time knowing what is real and what is not real
What is schizophrenia
The patient has been taking olanzapine (Zyprexa for several years secondary to negative signs and symptoms of schizophrenia. Which patient response indicates that the medication therapy is successful?
1. Reports that his compulsive behavior is under control.
2. Smiles as he tells the nurse about his new job.
3. Say that nightmares and flashbacks have decreased.
Smiles as he tells the nurse about his new job.
A sudden, overpowering fright response or feeling of terror for no known reason is an example of this.
What is a Panic Attack?
This is a simple technique that is excellent for managing emotions. Not only is it effective, but is also discreet and easy to use at any time and any place.
Deep Breathing
What is the therapy of choice for bipolar, or manic-depressive, disorder?
What is Lithium carbonate?
Breaking negative thought patterns and developing positive feeling about memories.
What is cognitive therapy?
Individual experiences moods that alternate between depression and elation
What is Bi-Polar Disorder
A severe condition that describes a near-complete inability to experience joy or pleasure.
What is anhedonia?
The nurse has a family member who is diagnosed with cyclothymic disorder. What is the primary reason that the nurse would encourage follow-up visits with the psychiatrist?
Many patients with cyclothymic disorder progress to bipolar disorder.
A milder form of bipolar disorder involving frequent mood swings of hypomanic and mild depressive episodes.
Changes require us to ______ and _______.
Experiencing too many changes within a brief period of time often creates the idea that we aren't in control of events
adjust and adapt
What is anything that causes stress
Stressors
Antipsychotic medications have several side effects that discourage compliance by the patient. Which effect has the potential to lead to a serious permanent problem?
What is Tardive dyskinesia.
Involved primarily in depressive and anxiety disorders and possible eating disorder. What neurotransmitter am I?
Serotonin
The patient reports recurrent nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, and headaches. She reports stress related to her marital relationship. If physical causes are ruled out, these symptoms are consistent with which mental health disorder?
What is Somatoform disorder?