Mental Health/Mental illness
The Alarm stage
What is the first stage of the general adaptation syndrome
A treatment is administered to a patient against their wishes.
What is battery?
The pleasure principle, the reality principle, and the moral principle.
What are the ID, ego, and superego?
Gift giving, self-disclosure, touch, and friendship or romantic association.
Professional boundary concerns
Willingness to spend time with the patient and show interest.
What is offering self?
A feeling of discomfort and apprehension related to fear of impending danger.
What is anxiety?
The greatest-happiness principle.
Utilitarianism
The second phase of Peplau's nurse-patient relationship.
What is orientation?
Exploring self-perceptions, bias, and information before the patient arrives for admission.
The pre-interaction phase of nurse patient relationship.
I heard you tried to leave the unit today. What was happening?
What is giving a broad opening?
A patient is angry at their physician and does not express it, but is verbally aggressive with the nurse.
What is the ego defense mechanism displacement?
Decreased levels of this neurotransmitter may cause increased anxiety.
What is Gamma-amino-butyric acid (GABA)?
This leader focuses on the members of the group, and members are encouraged to participate fully.
What is a democratic leader?
When the patient unconsciously displaces or transfers to the nurse, feelings formed toward a person in the past.
What is Transference ?
Caregiver nonjudgmental verbal and nonverbal techniques that focus on the patient's needs?
What are therapeutic communication Techniques
A friend uses logic & reasoning and avoids feelings when discussing their diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
What is intellectualization?
A neurotransmitter that may play a role in sleep, pain perception, learning and memory.
What is acetylcholine.
A type of group that an RN may lead at Brooklane or Meritus 1 West.
Patient education
18 to 40 inches
4 to 12 feet
What is Personal distance?
What is social distance?
You need to do meditation exercises when you become anxious.
what is giving advice?
The involuntary blocking of a traumatic event
What is repression.
The thalamus, hypothalamus, Olfactory tract and hippocampus are a few parts.
What is the limbic system?
Order medications and treatment and conduct group therapy.
What are nurse practitioners in psychiatry able to do that are not in the scope of practice for the charge nurse?
Pitch tone and loudness of spoken messages.
What are Vocal cues or paralanguage.
Persistent questioning of the patient and pushing for answers to issues.
What is Probing?