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Why people take notes
What are the different ways to take notes
How to prepare to take notes
Tips on notetaking
Basic Rules for Notetaking
100

Therapeutic Communication

Techniques
• Open ended questions
• Exploring, focusing, restating.
• Some promote discussion of feelings or concerns in more depth
• Other techniques useful in focusing or clarifying what is being said

100

check restraints when??

every 15-30 min 

100
having enough ____ in your notebook
What is paper
100

veracity

Honesty

100
determine the __________
What is information
200

nontherapeutic techniques

• Advising, belittling, challenging, probing, reassuring

200

Release from Hospital

Release from the hospital
• Voluntary hospitalization: right to request discharge at any time
• Release unless danger to self or others; if such danger present, then
commitment proceedings instituted
• Committed client may:
• Take medication and improve rapidly
• Become dangerous again if medication ceased after release
• Mental health clinicians can be held liable for criminal actions of
client.


200

Autonomy

self rights

200

Secondary prevention: early identification of mental health problems

 early identification of mental health problems

200

Clinical practice issues such as:

Clinical practice issues such as substance abuse, domestic violence,
child abuse, grief, depression, and many others

300

Therapeutic Milieu Therapy


• Structured Environment
• Scheduled activities
• Therapy: Individual, group
• Medications
• Meals
• Safe Space
• Safe to be self
• Must take responsibility for own actions
• Multidisciplinary Support
• Support for psycho-social and spiritual needs
• Focus on recovery
• Learning effective coping skills
• Identifying triggers
• Setting goals
• Improving communication and relationship skills


300

Assault

Touch without consent

300

Beneficence

duty to benefit others or promote good

300

Fidelity

obligation to honor commitments and contract

300
you can also do this with your reading
What is skimming through
400

Milieu therapy= 

 safe physical setting with defined rules and boundaries; appropriate activities
offered

400

An example of Negligence 

Not putting side rails up

400

Nom-Maleficence

Do no harm

400
looking up the meaning of unfamiliar words
What is a dictionary
400

Psychosocial Nursing in Public
Health and Home Care 

Primary prevention:

 stress management education

500
helps get the ______ in your head
What is material
500
types of patterning include flowcharts and?
What is diagrams
500

battery

Harmful contact resulting in injury 

500

 Tertiary prevention:

 monitoring and coordinating psychiatric
rehabilitation services

500

Legal and Ethical Issues
Mental Health

• CLIENT’S RIGHTS: based on Patients’ Bill of Rights & HIPAA
• Right to Confidentiality
• Right to Informed Consent
• ECT- Electroconvulsive therapy
• Right to refuse treatment
• Right to receive treatment in the least restrictive form
• ADMISSION TO A MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY
• Standard criteria: threat to self or others
• Health care professionals have a duty to warn and protect third party individuals who may be in
danger due to the client’s threats of harm.
• Voluntary: client chooses admission to mental health facility in order to obtain treatment