Ch. 1 - Introduction to Mental Health Nursing
1. You: Who is responsible for their own thoughts, feelings, and actions?
2. No: Is anything a client/patient reports surprising?
3. wait: When in doubt, ____ it out.
4. all: You implement psychiatric nursing in ____ nursing.
5. Mental Health: Is this mental health or mental illness?:
- Able to recognize own potential
- Cope with normal stress
- Work productively
- Make contribution to society
- Ability to think rationally, communicate appropriately, learn, grow emotionally,
have healthy self-esteem, realistic goals and reasonable function within
individual's role.
6. Mental Health: The state of well-being in which each individual is able to
realize his or her own potential.
7. Mental Illness: All psychiatric disorders that have definable diagnoses;
Manifested in significant dysfunction that may be related to developmental,
psychological, or biological disturbances in mental functioning.
8. Assess and Manage: Nurses are able to ____ with psychiatric nursing.
9. Basic Level RN: A nurse who works on a psychiatric unit; after 2 years they
are able to take the psychiatric certification exam.
10. Advanced Practice Nurse: A licensed RN with a MSN or DNP in psychiatric
nursing; can provide individual therapy and group therapy in state psychiatric
hospitals.
11. Continuum: Mental health and mental illness are on a ____.
12. Middle: Normally individuals exist in the ____ of the continuum of mental
health and mental illness.
13. Mental health: ____ is influenced by culture, seasons, year, external or
internal needs.
14. Health; Illness: If needs are not met, one may go from mental ____ to mental
____.
15. Well-being: Those who are considered to have mental health are in the
general condition of ____ - adequate to high-level functioning.
16. Impairments: Stressors of every day life cause no serious ____ in their
everyday life.
17. Mid discomfort: Those with mental illness may experience ____ such as
insomnia, lack of concentration, and loss of appetite.
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18. Long Term or Chronic Impairments: What is the distinguishing factor of
mental illness from mental health?
19. Behavior, Context/Meaning, Communication, Caring: What are the four
fundamental central concepts of mental health nursing?
20. Subjective: Data that nurses cannot see. ex) pain.
21. Objective: Data this is measurable and/or visible. ex) vital signs
22. Behavior: Arises out of needs, always has meaning even though we may not
be able to understand it, and is an attempt to meet needs.
23. Context: Behavior is affected by ____; context/meaning is crucial to
understanding behavior.
24. Occurs: The context in which the behavior ____ is crucial.
25. Communication: All behavior is ____.
26. Communication: Meaning of behavior must be validated through
communication.
27. Mutual Understanding or Common Ground: What is the goal of the nurse-
patient relationship within mental health?
28. Understanding: ____ promotes negotiation of common ground.
29. Care: Common ground allows the nurse to ____ for the patient.
30. Meeting needs, promoting change, and finding meaning in experience.:
How can a nurse care for their patients?
31. Environmental: What kind of factors are political climate and cultural
considerations?
32. Inborn and Learned: What are the individual attributes that affect behaviors?
33. Social and Economical: What kind of factors are your friends, family, schools
and peer groups considered?
34. Biological and Genetic Factors: What kind of factors does early exposure to
alcohol and genetics considered?
35. Environmental, Individual Attributes, Social and Economic
Circumstances, Biological and Genetics: What are the contributing factors
to mental health?
36. Rresiliance: Ability and capacity for people to secure the resources they need
to support their well being.
37. DSM-5: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is referred to as the ____.
38. 157: How many disorders are listed in the DSM-5?
39. Patient with a Disorder: The DSM-5 serves to treat the ____. es) W/
40. Axis I: Mental disorders that is the focus of treatment.
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1. You: Who is responsible for their own thoughts, feelings, and actions?
2. No: Is anything a client/patient reports surprising?
3. wait: When in doubt, ____ it out.
4. all: You implement psychiatric nursing in ____ nursing.
5. Mental Health: Is this mental health or mental illness?:
- Able to recognize own potential
- Cope with normal stress
- Work productively
- Make contribution to society
- Ability to think rationally, communicate appropriately, learn, grow emotionally,
have healthy self-esteem, realistic goals and reasonable function within
individual's role.
6. Mental Health: The state of well-being in which each individual is able to
realize his or her own potential.
7. Mental Illness: All psychiatric disorders that have definable diagnoses;
Manifested in significant dysfunction that may be related to developmental,
psychological, or biological disturbances in mental functioning.
8. Assess and Manage: Nurses are able to ____ with psychiatric nursing.
9. Basic Level RN: A nurse who works on a psychiatric unit; after 2 years they
are able to take the psychiatric certification exam.
10. Advanced Practice Nurse: A licensed RN with a MSN or DNP in psychiatric
nursing; can provide individual therapy and group therapy in state psychiatric
hospitals.
11. Continuum: Mental health and mental illness are on a ____.
12. Middle: Normally individuals exist in the ____ of the continuum of mental
health and mental illness.
13. Mental health: ____ is influenced by culture, seasons, year, external or
internal needs.
14. Health; Illness: If needs are not met, one may go from mental ____ to mental
____.
15. Well-being: Those who are considered to have mental health are in the
general condition of ____ - adequate to high-level functioning.
16. Impairments: Stressors of every day life cause no serious ____ in their
everyday life.
17. Mid discomfort: Those with mental illness may experience ____ such as
insomnia, lack of concentration, and loss of appetite.
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18. Long Term or Chronic Impairments: What is the distinguishing factor of
mental illness from mental health?
19. Behavior, Context/Meaning, Communication, Caring: What are the four
fundamental central concepts of mental health nursing?
20. Subjective: Data that nurses cannot see. ex) pain.
21. Objective: Data this is measurable and/or visible. ex) vital signs
22. Behavior: Arises out of needs, always has meaning even though we may not
be able to understand it, and is an attempt to meet needs.
23. Context: Behavior is affected by ____; context/meaning is crucial to
understanding behavior.
24. Occurs: The context in which the behavior ____ is crucial.
25. Communication: All behavior is ____.
26. Communication: Meaning of behavior must be validated through
communication.
27. Mutual Understanding or Common Ground: What is the goal of the nurse-
patient relationship within mental health?
28. Understanding: ____ promotes negotiation of common ground.
29. Care: Common ground allows the nurse to ____ for the patient.
30. Meeting needs, promoting change, and finding meaning in experience.:
How can a nurse care for their patients?
31. Environmental: What kind of factors are political climate and cultural
considerations?
32. Inborn and Learned: What are the individual attributes that affect behaviors?
33. Social and Economical: What kind of factors are your friends, family, schools
and peer groups considered?
34. Biological and Genetic Factors: What kind of factors does early exposure to
alcohol and genetics considered?
35. Environmental, Individual Attributes, Social and Economic
Circumstances, Biological and Genetics: What are the contributing factors
to mental health?
36. Rresiliance: Ability and capacity for people to secure the resources they need
to support their well being.
37. DSM-5: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is referred to as the ____.
38. 157: How many disorders are listed in the DSM-5?
39. Patient with a Disorder: The DSM-5 serves to treat the ____. es) W/
40. Axis I: Mental disorders that is the focus of treatment.
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