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define behavioral crisis. (or psychiatric emergency)
Patients of all ages who exhibit agitated, violent, or uncooperative behavior or who are a danger to themselves or others.
Physiological disorder that impairs bodily function when the body seems to be structurally normal.
Functional disorder
When is it okay to leave a patient alone who is experiencing a psychiatric emergency?
Only when your safety is in jeopardy.
List factors that can cause alteration in a patient’s behavior. (not mental status)
Generalized anxiety disorder, Panic disorder, Phobias, Social stress, PTSD, OCD, Schizophrenia, Diabetic emergency
Of the two basic categories of diagnosis that a mental health professional will use, this one is a temporary or permanent dysfunction of the brain caused by a disturbance in the physical or physiologic functioning of brain tissue.
Organic (organic brain syndrome)
What is positional asphyxia
Occurs when a patients physical position restricts chest wall movements or causes airway obstruction
when should restraints be used?
should be used when necessary only to prevent injury and in the least restrictive manner that achieves the needed result.
What is the "book answer" to: What is the most significant factor that contributes to suicide.
Depression
What is Mrs Caputo's answer to: what is the single most significant factor that that contributes to suicide?
Impulsivity
You respond to a 27 YOM with feelings of helplessness and anxiety. when you take the blood pressure you notice a Marine Corps tattoo. What should you suspect.
PTSD
Any attempt to restrain a patient should include
Law enforcement
Common causes of acute psychotic behavior include all of the following except
Intense stress
Schitzophrenia
Altzheimers disease
mind-altering-substance use
In what position should you restrain a physically uncooperative patient?
Lateral Decubitus
The mental health care system in the United States functions on several levels. for patients with clinical depression, care is most often provided by____?
A psychologist
What should you do repeatedly after restraining a patient.
Assess circulation
Who may refuse treatment
Any competent adult has the right to refuse treatment, even if life saving care is involved.
What is excited delerium
condition of impairment in cognitive function that can present with disorientation, hallucinations, or delusions.
A persons response to their environment is____?
Behavior
A chronic feeling of sadness or despair.
Depression
Which of the following is an example of a psychiatric disorder?
Depression
Hypoxia
Low blood glucose
All of the above
What is the primary consideration at the scene of a psychiatric emergency?
Your safety
Define acute psychosis
A state of delusion in which the person is out of touch with reality.
S/S of schizophrenia.
Delusions, hallucinations, a lack of interest in pleasure, and erratic speech.
If a patient sees little green men, and we need to know how many, how do we count them.
We do not go along with the delusion
Of the two basic categories of diagnosis that a mental health professional will use, this one is a physiological disorder that impairs bodily function when the body seems to be structurally normal.
Functional disorder