NUR 2225 Exam Revision Questions and
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What does recovery mean? ✅The active process of people with mental illness moving
towards their own goals ans living their own satisfying life
Clinical recovery ✅the removal of clinical symptoms
Personal recovery ✅a deeply personal, unique process of changing one's attitude,
values, feelings, goals or roles... way of living a satisfying and contributing life even with
the limitation caused by illness
Principles of recovery-orientated MH practice ✅- uniqueness of the individual
- real choice
- attitudes and rights
- dignity and respect
- partnership and communication
- evaluating recovery
Define mental illness ✅a health problem that significantly affects how a person feels,
thinks, behaves and interact with other people
Define mental health ✅a state of well being in which the individual realises his/ her
own potentials, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and
fruitfully and can contribute to the community.
What are the impacts of stigma? ✅- avoiding help
- isolation
- social avoidance
- diminished self-worth and worthiness
- impact on symptoms
- reduce recovery and personal empowerment
Stereotype ✅a widely held but fixed and oversimplified beliefs about a particular type
of person or thing
Discrimination ✅unjust or prejudical treatment of a group or class of people
Purpose of Mental Health Act (2014) ✅placing people with mental illness at the centre
of decision-making about their treatment and care
Restrictive interventions of Assessment Order ✅1. community AO: max. 24hrs
2. impatient AO: max. 72hrs including transportation
,(max. 24hrs in DMHS)
Criteria for assessment order ✅1. The person appears to have a mental illness
2. Requires immediate treatment to prevent:
- serious deterioration in the person's mental or physical health
- serious harm to the person or another person
3. The person is able to be assessed
4. There is no less restrictive means reasonably available for the person
Temporary Treatment Order ✅made by AP after AO
- enable the person to be treated for max. 28 days
Who is respnsibe for the Treatment Order? ✅made be Mental Health Tribunal
Duration of Treatment Order ✅1. community TO for a person >18yo: 12 months;
<18yo: 3 months
2. in-patient TO for a person >18yo: 6 months; <18yo: 3 months
Purpose of comprehensive assessment ✅- communicate, identify and clarify the
person' mental issues
- assess physical health
- identify personal/ family/ social support that can be used in collaborative care and
treatment planning
- provide the person/ carers/ family the opportunity to express concerns
Component of MSE ✅PAMSGOTJIMI
P: perception
A: affect and mood
M: motor function
S: speech
G: general appearance
O: orientation
T: thought (content/ process)
J: judgement
I: insight
M: memory
I: intellectual functioning
Halluciantions ✅false sensory experience that can occur in all five sense, often seen in
people with psychosis
Types of hallucination ✅Auditory, tactile, visual, olfactory, gustatory
illusion ✅misinterpretation of external stimuli
, De-personalization ✅the person feels as if they don't exist
De-realization ✅the person feels the world around them is not exist
poverty of thought ✅A lack of ability to produce new thoughts (often seen in clinets
with dementia)
Tangentiality ✅Abrupt changing of focus to a loosely associated topic
Flight of ideas ✅thoughts moving quickly from one to another
Word salad ✅A mixture of words meaningless to the listener and to the speaker as
well.
Loosening of association ✅a lack of logical relationship between ideas
- the clients can appeared to be vague, confused and unfocused during the interaction
Neologism ✅made up/invented words
Preoccupations ✅thinking or worrying something intensely, creating a lack of
awareness in the immediate surroundings
Circumstantiality ✅excessive detail
Derailment ✅no logical connection between ideas, sentences not making sense due to
to word choice
Preservation ✅repetition of words
Thought broadcasting ✅type of thought content
- delusion that one's thought can be heard by others
Thought insertion ✅type of thought content
- believe thoughts are being implemented in one's mind by other people or force
Ideas of reference ✅The false impression that outside events have special meaning
for oneself
Magical thinking ✅resembles young children's thinking whereby thoughts, words or
action assumes power
- e.g. they have superpowers
Delusion ✅a fixed false belief that is firmly held by a person
Complete Solutions
What does recovery mean? ✅The active process of people with mental illness moving
towards their own goals ans living their own satisfying life
Clinical recovery ✅the removal of clinical symptoms
Personal recovery ✅a deeply personal, unique process of changing one's attitude,
values, feelings, goals or roles... way of living a satisfying and contributing life even with
the limitation caused by illness
Principles of recovery-orientated MH practice ✅- uniqueness of the individual
- real choice
- attitudes and rights
- dignity and respect
- partnership and communication
- evaluating recovery
Define mental illness ✅a health problem that significantly affects how a person feels,
thinks, behaves and interact with other people
Define mental health ✅a state of well being in which the individual realises his/ her
own potentials, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and
fruitfully and can contribute to the community.
What are the impacts of stigma? ✅- avoiding help
- isolation
- social avoidance
- diminished self-worth and worthiness
- impact on symptoms
- reduce recovery and personal empowerment
Stereotype ✅a widely held but fixed and oversimplified beliefs about a particular type
of person or thing
Discrimination ✅unjust or prejudical treatment of a group or class of people
Purpose of Mental Health Act (2014) ✅placing people with mental illness at the centre
of decision-making about their treatment and care
Restrictive interventions of Assessment Order ✅1. community AO: max. 24hrs
2. impatient AO: max. 72hrs including transportation
,(max. 24hrs in DMHS)
Criteria for assessment order ✅1. The person appears to have a mental illness
2. Requires immediate treatment to prevent:
- serious deterioration in the person's mental or physical health
- serious harm to the person or another person
3. The person is able to be assessed
4. There is no less restrictive means reasonably available for the person
Temporary Treatment Order ✅made by AP after AO
- enable the person to be treated for max. 28 days
Who is respnsibe for the Treatment Order? ✅made be Mental Health Tribunal
Duration of Treatment Order ✅1. community TO for a person >18yo: 12 months;
<18yo: 3 months
2. in-patient TO for a person >18yo: 6 months; <18yo: 3 months
Purpose of comprehensive assessment ✅- communicate, identify and clarify the
person' mental issues
- assess physical health
- identify personal/ family/ social support that can be used in collaborative care and
treatment planning
- provide the person/ carers/ family the opportunity to express concerns
Component of MSE ✅PAMSGOTJIMI
P: perception
A: affect and mood
M: motor function
S: speech
G: general appearance
O: orientation
T: thought (content/ process)
J: judgement
I: insight
M: memory
I: intellectual functioning
Halluciantions ✅false sensory experience that can occur in all five sense, often seen in
people with psychosis
Types of hallucination ✅Auditory, tactile, visual, olfactory, gustatory
illusion ✅misinterpretation of external stimuli
, De-personalization ✅the person feels as if they don't exist
De-realization ✅the person feels the world around them is not exist
poverty of thought ✅A lack of ability to produce new thoughts (often seen in clinets
with dementia)
Tangentiality ✅Abrupt changing of focus to a loosely associated topic
Flight of ideas ✅thoughts moving quickly from one to another
Word salad ✅A mixture of words meaningless to the listener and to the speaker as
well.
Loosening of association ✅a lack of logical relationship between ideas
- the clients can appeared to be vague, confused and unfocused during the interaction
Neologism ✅made up/invented words
Preoccupations ✅thinking or worrying something intensely, creating a lack of
awareness in the immediate surroundings
Circumstantiality ✅excessive detail
Derailment ✅no logical connection between ideas, sentences not making sense due to
to word choice
Preservation ✅repetition of words
Thought broadcasting ✅type of thought content
- delusion that one's thought can be heard by others
Thought insertion ✅type of thought content
- believe thoughts are being implemented in one's mind by other people or force
Ideas of reference ✅The false impression that outside events have special meaning
for oneself
Magical thinking ✅resembles young children's thinking whereby thoughts, words or
action assumes power
- e.g. they have superpowers
Delusion ✅a fixed false belief that is firmly held by a person
