Mental Health Buzz words
This is how your unit functions as a whole
What is milieu?
Environment must be predictable
What is structure?
This type of question is used by the nurse to get more information about the client's feelings
What are open ended questions?
This should never be used as punishment
What is restraint or seclusion?
This part of the nursing process is where the nurse observes the client
What is data collection or analyze cues?
This is given per a provider to place a client in the hospital involuntarily
What is a 72 hour hold?
When patients are encouraged to participate in their own therapy
What is involvement?
This is when the nurse is silent but uses body language to ensure the client knows they are being heard
What is active listening?
If this is used improperly the nurse can be charged with a crime
What is involuntary seclusion and restraint?
This is where the nurse formulates a plan of care based on client condition
What is diagnosis?
This requires a court order by a judge to be enforced
What is a Mental Inquest Warrant?
The staff provides this to help ensure patients feel safe
What is support?
This must only be broken by the client not the nurse
What is silence?
It is ok to lie to a patient to get them to take a medication if you know they need it
What is hell to the naw?
This is where the nurse determines if her interventions were effective
What is evaluation?
This is a federal law that requires treatment and stabilization for patients with mental health crisis
What is emtala?
This is when the nurse and client have honest conversations
What is open communication
This is briefly stating what the client has said
What is summarizing?
This is an unconscious belief or attitude by the nurse that might affect client care
What is implicit bias?
This is the part of the nursing process where the nurse formulates interventions
What is planning and implementation
This is when the nurse encourages the patient to work toward a goal by themselves
What is autonomy?
This is when the nurse reinforces the clients' feelings
What is validation?
This is when the nurse restates the client's words
What is para phrasing?
It is ok for the nurse to meet up with a client after they are discharged from an inpatient facility.
What are ways to get yourself in big trouble?