Legal/Ethical Principles
This ethical principle means doing good for the patient
You are assessing this when you ask the patient to state their birthday.
This therapeutic technique directs the focus back to the patient in order for them to examine their feelings.
What is reflection?
Nurses gather information about the patient during this phase.
What is assessment?
Pacing, clenched fists, and raised voice indicate this phase of the assault cycle.
What is the escalation phase?
This principle requires nurses to avoid causing harm.
What is nonmaleficence?
A patient’s observable emotional expression is known as this.
What is affect?
During this phase, the most therapeutic work occurs.
What is the working phase?
Role of the psychiatric nurse.
What is advocate, educator, care coordinator, or therapeutic communicator?
During this phase, the patient loses emotional and behavioral control.
What is the crisis phase?
Patients receive adequate information regarding treatment benefits, risks, alternative, and potential consequences
Understanding abstract concepts is assessed under this MSE component.
What is judgment?
This means understanding another person's experience without becoming emotionally overwhelmed.
What is empathy?
Encouraging a client to develop their own goals aligns with this model.
What is the recovery model?
The nurse’s most effective interventions occur during these two phases.
What are the triggering and escalation phases?
Even involuntary admitted patients maintain these rights.
What are patient rights? (Confidentiality, informed consent, privacy, least restrictive movement, refusal of treatment)
Hallucinations fall under this part of the MSE.
What is perception?
This non-verbal behavior does not support therapeutic communication.
What is standing over the patient, avoiding eye contact, standing with arms crossed, or touching the patient without permission?
This phase of the nursing process centers on symptom improvement, achievement of goals, and patient progress toward recovery.
What is the evaluation phase?
Removing harmful objects and maintaining a clear exit path are examples of this.
What is environmental safety?
A nurse stays with an agitated patient rather than restraining them.
What is an example of beneficence or least-restrictive care?
A client states, “The FBI implanted a chip in my brain.”
What is a delusion?
Being authentic and honest within professional boundaries with a patient.
What is genuineness?
This phase of the nursing process centers on therapeutic communication, medication administration, patient education, crisis management.
What is the implementation phase?
Risk factors for violence
History of violence, substance use, psychosis, impulsivity