Galen Mental Health Exam 1 Latest Update 2023-2024 200+ Questions and Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed Success
- requirements for a patient to be Involuntarily admitted to a psych facility: - CORRECT
ANSWER: 1-Mentally ill
2-Danger to themselves or others 3-Mental illness is preventing them from seeking the treatment they need
- cardinal features of delirium - CORRECT ANSWER: 1. Acute onset and fluctuating
- Reduced ability to direct, focus, shift, and sustain attention
- Disorganized thinking
- Disturbance of consciousness
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- Principles of Bioethics: Autonomy - CORRECT ANSWER: respecting the rights of
others to make their own decisions
- Principles of Bioethics: Beneficence - CORRECT ANSWER: the duty to promote
good
- Principles of Bioethics: Fidelity - CORRECT ANSWER: maintaining loyalty and
commitment; do no harm to a patient, staying up to date on diseases and best intervention and treatments
- Principles of Bioethics: Justice - CORRECT ANSWER: distribute resources or care
equally
- Principles of Bioethics: Veracity - CORRECT ANSWER: ones duty to always
communicate truthfully
A 95-year-old woman is reported by neighbors for leaving her front door wide open all night long and noticing the smell of gas consistently because the stove is not being turned off. She is deemed to be a danger to herself. Would she need inpatient or
outpatient care? - CORRECT ANSWER: Inpatient
Acute Stress can cause - CORRECT ANSWER: Uneasiness, concern, sadness, loss of
appetite, suppression of the immune system, hypertension, infertility, decreased memory and learning.
Admission Procedures: Involuntary Admission - CORRECT ANSWER: § Without patients consent § Mentally ill/danger to self or others/gravely disabled (unable to meet basic needs/in need of tx & their MI prevents help seeking on a voluntary basis) 1 / 3
Admission Procedures: Involuntary outpatient admission/assisted outpatient treatment -
CORRECT ANSWER: § Alternative to forced inpatient tx
§ Can be preventative § May be tied to receipt of goods and services provided by social welfare agencies § May face inpatient admission for failing to participate
Admission Procedures: Long-term involuntary admission - CORRECT ANSWER: § Medical certification § Judicial review § Administrative action
Admission Procedures: Temporary admission/Emergency Commitment - CORRECT
ANSWER: § Person confused and/or demented
§ So ill they need emergency admission § Need for admission must be confirmed by provider § Observe, diagnose, tx those with mental illness or those who post a danger to self/others
Admission Procedures: Voluntary Admission - CORRECT ANSWER: § Sought by patient or guardian § Need to understand the need for tx and be willing to be admitted § Have the right to request and obtain discharge (reevaluation)
Affordable Care Act - CORRECT ANSWER: 2010: Insurance available to those who didn't have it before. People were able to be covered for mental health issues
Agnosia: - CORRECT ANSWER: loss of sensory ability to recognize objects
Alzheimer's: Application of Nursing Process - CORRECT ANSWER: · Assessment: defense mechanisms, denial, confabulation, perseveration, avoidance of questions
Anxiety - CORRECT ANSWER: o Apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty, or dread
from real or perceived threat
o Fear: reaction to specific danger
Normal anxiety: necessary for survival
Anxiety Disorder: Agoraphobia - CORRECT ANSWER: o Excessive anxiety or fear about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
- Bridges, elevators, open spaces
Anxiety Disorder: Body Dysmorphia - CORRECT ANSWER: § Spending a lot of time in front of the member assessing themselves § Sometimes lots of cosmetic surgeries
- Hoarding
- Hair pulling and skin picking 2 / 3
Anxiety Disorder: Specific Phobias - CORRECT ANSWER: Irrational fear or a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to avoidance
Anxiety Disorders: Behavioral Theories - CORRECT ANSWER: anxiety is LEARNED. It is a learned response from role models
Anxiety Disorders: Cognitive Theories - CORRECT ANSWER: anxiety disorders are caused by distortions in an individual's thoughts or perceptions
Anxiety Disorders: Compulsions - CORRECT ANSWER: ritualistic actions an individual feels driven to perform in an attempt to reduce anxiety
Anxiety Disorders: Harry Stack Sullivan - CORRECT ANSWER: "Anxiety is linked to emotional stress when early needs are not met or disapproval is experienced as children. Anxiety is contagious and can be transmitted from mother to infant"
Anxiety Disorders: Obsessions - CORRECT ANSWER: intrusive thoughts, impulses, or images that persist and recur so that they cannot be dismissed from the mind
Anxiety Disorders: Sigmund Freud - CORRECT ANSWER: "anxiety comes from trauma or events that are pushing through to reality. Natural defense mechanisms in our body to keep anxiety at a manageable level."
Aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER: loss of language ability
Apraxia - CORRECT ANSWER: loss of purposeful movement
Assessment of Suicide - CORRECT ANSWER: · Verbal and nonverbal clues: overt statements, covert statements Lethality of suicide plan. Always ask "Do you have a plan?"
Blurring of Boundaries - CORRECT ANSWER: § When relationship slips into social
context § When nurses needs are met at expense of patients' needs
Blurring of Boundaries: Counter transference - CORRECT ANSWER: § nurse displaces feelings related to people in nurses past onto patient · Patients transference to nurse often results in countertransference in nurse · Common sign of countertransference in nurse over-identification with the patient
Blurring of Boundaries: Transference - CORRECT ANSWER: § patient unconsciously and inappropriately displaces onto nurse feelings and behaviors related to significant figures in patients past · Intensified in relationships of authority
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