NURS 265 EXAM with comprehensive Questions and Answers
What is Mental Health Continuum?✔️✔️how someone is functioning in a point in time. One can
be adequate to high level of functioning in daily life to at the end point of severe mental illness.
Ranges from low to high
High level Mental Health Continuum?✔️✔️· occasional stress to mild distress, no impairment,
knows that there not okay and can recover with coping mechanisms.
Low level Mental Health Continuum?
(mental illness)✔️✔️· marked distress, moderate to disabling or chronic impairment. EX: altered
thinking, mood, and behavior, common disorders such as depression and anxiety, and
schizophrenia
MIddle level Mental Health Continuum? (emotional problems or concerns)✔️✔️· mild to
moderate distress, and mild or temporary impairment. EX: insomnia, lack of concentration, loss
of appetite.
Individual Attributes (biological and genetics):✔️✔️: Biological such as prenatal exposure to
alcohol & O2 deprivation at birth are biological factor. Genetic factors are huge predictors of
mental health.
Resilience:✔️✔️the ability and capacity for people to secure resources needed for well-being.
Does not mean they are unaffected by stress.
Social and Economic:✔️✔️Family, peer groups, school-promote confidence, coping skills,
inadequacy, instilling anxiety.
Environmental:✔️✔️Culture- different views on mental illness, social and economic policies,
political environment & culture consideration
, Diathesis-Stress Model:✔️✔️both diathesis and stress are present for the disorder. (Nature vs.
nurture)
What represents biological predisposition (genetics)✔️✔️Diathesis
What represents environmental stress or trauma (triggers the disorder)?✔️✔️Stress
Patient rights Legislation✔️✔️Parity = equivalence
Mental health parity:✔️✔️required insurers that provide mental health coverage to offer annual
and lifetime benefits at the same level provided for medical/surgical coverage for insurers who
employ 50 or more employees.
Affordable care act:✔️✔️- improve coverage for most Americans who are uninsured through a
combination of expanded Medicaid and health insurance exchanges.
What are some components of the Affordable care act?✔️✔️$Medical HX cannot result in denials,
or "pre-existing condition"
$ No lifetime or annual dollar limit
Available to many who previously have been uninsured
§ Prescription's coverage
§ Cover preventative care at no cost to the patient
§ Young adults to remain on parents' health care plan until the age of 26
Mental Health Nursing✔️✔️promoting mental health through assessment, diagnosis, and treatment
of human responses to mental health problems and psychiatric disorders. Pain scale is there
depression scale
QSEN (quality and safety education for nurses):✔️✔️improve the safety and quality of healthcare.
- Provide patient -centered care
What is Mental Health Continuum?✔️✔️how someone is functioning in a point in time. One can
be adequate to high level of functioning in daily life to at the end point of severe mental illness.
Ranges from low to high
High level Mental Health Continuum?✔️✔️· occasional stress to mild distress, no impairment,
knows that there not okay and can recover with coping mechanisms.
Low level Mental Health Continuum?
(mental illness)✔️✔️· marked distress, moderate to disabling or chronic impairment. EX: altered
thinking, mood, and behavior, common disorders such as depression and anxiety, and
schizophrenia
MIddle level Mental Health Continuum? (emotional problems or concerns)✔️✔️· mild to
moderate distress, and mild or temporary impairment. EX: insomnia, lack of concentration, loss
of appetite.
Individual Attributes (biological and genetics):✔️✔️: Biological such as prenatal exposure to
alcohol & O2 deprivation at birth are biological factor. Genetic factors are huge predictors of
mental health.
Resilience:✔️✔️the ability and capacity for people to secure resources needed for well-being.
Does not mean they are unaffected by stress.
Social and Economic:✔️✔️Family, peer groups, school-promote confidence, coping skills,
inadequacy, instilling anxiety.
Environmental:✔️✔️Culture- different views on mental illness, social and economic policies,
political environment & culture consideration
, Diathesis-Stress Model:✔️✔️both diathesis and stress are present for the disorder. (Nature vs.
nurture)
What represents biological predisposition (genetics)✔️✔️Diathesis
What represents environmental stress or trauma (triggers the disorder)?✔️✔️Stress
Patient rights Legislation✔️✔️Parity = equivalence
Mental health parity:✔️✔️required insurers that provide mental health coverage to offer annual
and lifetime benefits at the same level provided for medical/surgical coverage for insurers who
employ 50 or more employees.
Affordable care act:✔️✔️- improve coverage for most Americans who are uninsured through a
combination of expanded Medicaid and health insurance exchanges.
What are some components of the Affordable care act?✔️✔️$Medical HX cannot result in denials,
or "pre-existing condition"
$ No lifetime or annual dollar limit
Available to many who previously have been uninsured
§ Prescription's coverage
§ Cover preventative care at no cost to the patient
§ Young adults to remain on parents' health care plan until the age of 26
Mental Health Nursing✔️✔️promoting mental health through assessment, diagnosis, and treatment
of human responses to mental health problems and psychiatric disorders. Pain scale is there
depression scale
QSEN (quality and safety education for nurses):✔️✔️improve the safety and quality of healthcare.
- Provide patient -centered care
