Nursing Process in Mental Health
This is the Systematic organization and implementation of patient care
What is The nursing process?
This is the way one adapts to a stressor psychologically, physically, and behaviorally.
What is coping?
This presents with symptoms of agitation and motor restlessness, and they seem to appear more frequently in women.
What is Akathisia?
In this for of therapy the focus is on the cause of the problem, which is buried somewhere in the unconscious.
What is Psychoanalysis?
This term means to be characterized by or conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession
What is professionalism?
When conducting patient teaching, the best method to evaluate the success of the patient is?
Return demonstration
This defense mechanism is an unconscious burying or “forgetting” mechanism.
What is repression?
Frequently seen manifestations are rhythmic, involuntary movements that look like chewing, sucking, or licking motions are seen in this behavior
What is Tardive dyskinesia (TD)?
In this therapy the patient says whatever comes to mind in response to a word that is given by the therapist
What is Free Association?
This law dictates the acceptable scope of nursing practice for the different levels of nursing.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
This takes place in the assessment part of the nursing process
What is mental status examination?
This defense mechanism is when unacceptable traits or characteristics are diverted into acceptable traits or characteristics.
What is Sublimation?
This class of medications inhibit the action of acetylcholine and are used to treat EPS symptoms
What are Antiparkinson agents?
In this therapy the goal is the “elimination of a complex (problem) by bringing it to consciousness and affording it expression”
What is Catharsis?
Harm either intentional or unintentional and falls under this category
What is tort?
This describes the services that a health professional who is educated/trained and deemed competent to perform, depicts under what conditions the services may be delivered, and regulates the roles of the registered nurse (RN) and the licensed practical nurse/licensed vocational nurse (LPN/LVN) in the nursing process
What is scope of practice?
This defense mechanism is when a person transfers anger and hostility to another person or object that is perceived to be less powerful.
What is Displacement
These drugs increase the availability of serotonin, which is decreased in the brains of depressed individuals
What are SSRI?
This cognitive therapy was created by Dr. Albert Ellis
What is rational-emotive therapy (RET)?
This is the study of how different cultures relate to space
What is Proxemics?
This is a standardized language, which provides outcome statements; a set of indicators describing specific patient, caregiver, family, or community states related to the outcome; and a five-point measurement scale to facilitate tracking patients across care settings
What is NOC?
The term for when anxiety is channeled into physical symptoms
What is Conversion Reaction?
These drugs increase the level of serotonin and norepinephrine, thereby increasing the ability of the nerve cells to pass information to each other.
What are Tricyclic Antidepressants?
Examples of this are people who may be experiencing a crisis are those who have lost a job suddenly or were divorced recently, are in an abusive relationship, have experienced the death of a loved one, or are contemplating or attempting suicide
What is crisis?
This law offers immunity from prosecution for citizens who stop to assist someone in need of medical help
What is Good Samaritan Law?