FOUNDATIONS
The ability to manage stress
What is a positive factor in supporting mental health?
Controls Memory and Emotion
What is Cerebrum?
A mother holds her infant close is this type of distance zone.
What is intimate contact?
It is the ability to place oneself into the experience of another for a moment in time and It is developed by gathering information from the client.
Which of the following statements is true of empathy?
The state of emotional, psychological and social wellness evidenced by satisfying relationships, effective behavior and coping, positive self-concept and emotional stability
What is – Mental Health
Schizophrenia is related to what structure in Cerebrum?
What is the Frontal Lobe?
Foods High in Tyramine such as aged cheese, organ meats, wine, and chocolate.
What are the dietary restrictions when taking MAOI's?
The nurse should use clear, concrete messages when working with clients with these 3 conditions
What is Anxiety, Dementia and Schizophrenia?
The nurse is meeting with her client for the first time. During the orientation phase of the nurse-client relationship, the nurse is doing this to determine where to start the relationship.
What is identifying problems to examine?
Made it harder to commit people against their will.
What does Federal Legislation do?
This disease is diagnosed through Positron emission tomography (PET) scans can identify the amyloid plaques and tangles in living clients.
What is how is Alzheimer's disease diagnosed?
These are the side effects of Lithium that make clients non- compliant
What is weight Gain and Lethargy
The nurse responds, "You said you and your wife were happy. Tell me more about that." Is an example of this therapeutic technique?
What is exploring?
The nurse assesses fine hand tremors in a client with a history of heavy alcohol use. The nurse understands that the tremors are a direct result of alcohol use, the nurse is using a pattern of knowing, according to Carper.
What is empirical knowing?
Food & Shelter
What was the purpose of the asylum?
This patient has frequent exacerbations of schizophrenia due to non-compliance.
What is weight gain and lethargy associated with antipsychotic therapy?
A client on Lithium requires blood draws every two weeks to determine the level of the drug.
What is efficacy?
This is a therapeutic goal that can be accomplished through the use of therapeutic communication skills.
What is assess the client's perception of the problem?
These are the characteristics of a therapeutic nurse-client relationship that the nurse will foster.
What are establishing boundaries for self and client, maintaining client focus and avoiding concern with being liked by the client?
Isolation from families, attendants abused residents, not given proper nutrition or clothing
What is the problem with large state institutions?
While discharging a patient on a tricyclic antidepressant the nurse knows that the most serious side effect is this fatal occurrence.
What is suicide?
The side effects of this drug are hypertensive crises, fatal drug interactions when taking CNS depressants antihypertensives and general anesthetics
What are MAOI's
"They lied about me. They said I murdered my mother. You're the killers. You all killed my mother. She died before I was born." The best initial response by the nurse would be.
What is : You're having very frightening thoughts?
This is the tool the nurse uses to learn more about his or her qualities and communication with others. It has 4 parts of which the nurse knows only about 2.
What is Johari's Wndow.