Mental Health Act
Application by physician for a psychiatric assessment. This form will expire 72 hours after the time of detainment at a schedule 1 facility.
This communication strengthens therapeutic relationships, helps de-escalate conflict and intense emotions, and shows that we are listening. It communicates that the person's thoughts, feelings, and behavior make sense in a given situation.
What is Validation?
These medication side effects include dry mouth, blurred vision, constipation, and urinary retention.
What are Anticholinergic Side Effects?
This language puts the person before the condition or disability, emphasizing that a person is not defined by their diagnosis.
Before giving a medication, the nurse must review and confirm all 10 rights of medication administration to support patient safety.
What is Right: patient, medication & form, dose, route, time, reason, education, to refuse, documentation, and evaluation.
Notifies the patient that they are on a Form 3 or Form 4 and the reason for their involuntary admission.
What is a Form 30?
What is T.I.P.P?
Life threatening medication reaction characterized by fever, severe muscle rigidity, altered mental status, and autonomic instability.
*Onset - Hours to 30 days (often earfter after start or dose change)
What is Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome?
This approach recognizes that a person's behavior, distress, and responses may be shaped by past experiences, and it empathizes safety, choice, collaborations, and trust.
What are Serotonin Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRIs)?
Under the Mental Health Act, this person explains a patient's legal rights, including right to content, apply for a hearing, and obtain legal counsel.
This therapeutic model shows how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected and influence each other.
What is the Cognitive Triangle?
Medication induced syndrome of subjective inner restlessness with an observable need to move (pacing, shifting, inability to sit still), often experienced as intense distress.
Key features: "I can't sit still" + pacing/rocking/shifting; often appears like agitation but is driven by motor restlessness.
What is Acute Akathisia?
This approach focuses on hope, strengths, autonomy, and supporting the person to live a meaningful lief as defined by them.
What is Recovery-Oriented Care?
This thought process is the unintentional creation of false or inaccurate memories to fill in gaps in recall, without the intent to deceive.
What is Confabulation?
This Form confirms that a person has been informed of their legal rights by a Rights Advisor.
What is a Form 50?
These are the immediate, often unhelpful thoughts that can quickly shape a person's feelings and behaviors, and that nurse help patients notice, challenge, and reframe through psychoeducation.
What are Automatic Thoughts?
What is Medication-Induced Parkinsonism?
*Often mistaken for: sedation, depression, deconditioning, "not participating", neurologic disease.
What is Counter-Transference?
This assessment tool is used to monitor and score the severity of alcohol withdrawal symptoms to guide treatment.
What is the CIWA?
This Form is used when a physician ends a patient's involuntary status and continues them as an informal or voluntary patient.
What is a Form 5?
This practice involves noticing the present moment and paying attention to the thoughts, feelings, and sensations without judgement.
What is Mindfulness?
A delayed-onset medication-related movement disorder marked by involuntary, repetitive, purposeless movements, commonly involving the face, mouth, and tongue, and sometimes limbs/trunk.
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
*Commonly mistaken for: habits, anxiety tics, "grimacing", dental problems, intentional movements.
The patient transfers their feelings about a person from the past onto the health care provider (i.e. the health care provider reminders the patient of their father/mother).
What is Transference?
A neurological disorder caused by thiamine deficiency, typically from chromic use or persistent vomiting, and marked by mental confusion, abnormal eye movements, and unsteady gait.
What is Wernicke's Encephalopathy?