mental health
What is the definition on mental health?
What is : The ability to cope and adjust to everyday stresses
A step to meet the psychosocial needs of the patient?
What is patient education?
Dementia is an organic mental disease secondary to what problem?
A nurse should include in patient education in preparation for a scheduled appointment for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
What is NPO status and arrange for transportation to and from the appointment.
a person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being.
A nurse should document the behavior of a patient with mental illness by ?
What is Differing from socially acceptable behavior.
Hopelessness and helplessness can lead to what?
What is suicidal ideation?
What response indicates concrete thinking, when the nurse cautions a patient to watch his step?
What is the patient fixedly begins to watch his feet.
A disorder where a patient complains of recurrent, multiple physical ailments for which there is no organic causes.
What is somatic symptom disorder?
Opioid overdose treatment involves administering this medication.
What is Narcan?
What diminish peoples functional capacity?
What is periods of crisis
What is true of a patient experiencing neurosis vs psychosis?
What is the patient has insight that there is an emotional problem. Patient with psychosis is out of touch with reality and has severe personality deterioration.
Research indicates that hereditary factors account for ___ to ___% of mood disorders.
60% to 80%
The disorder that is severe form of self-starvation that can lead to death?
What is anorexia nervosa?
The nurse explains that the patient will take methadone for what length of time for a patient undergoing heroin addiction.
What coping mechanism demonstrated by a patient indicate to the nurse that the patient is seeking ways to deal with and resolve stress?
What is Adaptation.
The Diagnostic and Psychiatric Disorders, V (DSM-V) used as tool examine mental health. What approach does the DSM-V use to classify mental disorders?
What is a multiaxial system?
What nursing care plan activity would be appropriate to implemented for a patient with depression.
The term for a long-term and intense form of psychotherapy developed by Sigmund Freud that allows a patient's unconscious thoughts to be brought to the surface.
What is psychoanalysis?
A patient in the late stages of dependence must do this in order to recover.
What is receive treatment for substance abuse?
A Behavior that reflects the return to an earlier from of coping.
What is regression
An organic mental disorder that is brought on by severe physical illness, such as fever is categorized as?
What is delirium?
How should a nurse best assist a patient that is having a panic attack?
What is coaching in relaxation techniques such as deep breathing.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is done as a treatment for depression, mania, and schizoaffective disorders that have not responded to other treatments. The usual protocol is?
What is 10 treatment over several weeks?
This many drinks per day may cause adverse effects in an infant.
What is two drinks a day?