NUR 233 STUDY GUIDE 2026 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
RATED A+
✔✔Outpatient characteristics - ✔✔-intermittent supervision
-stable level of functioning
-long term therapeutic relationships
-comprehensive plan
-use creative strategies
-communicate regularly
-teach adequate nutrition /self care
-encourage adherence to medication
✔✔inpatient characteristics - ✔✔-24 hour supervision
-therapeutic milieu
-stabilization of symptoms
-short term therapeutic relationship
-develop comprehensive care plan
-administer medication
-monitor nutrition
-structured socialization activities
-plan for discharge
✔✔least restrictive to most restrictive - ✔✔primary care
specialty care
patient centered medical homes
community mental health centers
Psychiatric home care
assertive community treatment
intensive outpatient programs
patient hospitalization program
Emergency care
crisis stabilization/observation unit
general hospital
State hospital
✔✔speciality treatment settings - ✔✔Pediatric psychiatric care
Geriatric psychiatric care
Veterans administration centers
Forensic psychiatric care
Alcohol and drug abuse treatment
Self-help options
✔✔criteria for involuntary admission - ✔✔-diagnosed with mental illness
-poses danger to self/others
-gravely disabled
-in need of treatment
, ✔✔Cognitive behavioral therapies Tasks - ✔✔Treatment focus- Thoughts/cognitions
Therapist role- Active/directive/challenging
Disorders treated- depression/anxiety, panic disorders/ eating disorders
Length of therapy- Short term
Technique- evaluating thoughts/behaviors, Modifying dysfunctional thoughts/behaviors
✔✔Resilience works by - ✔✔delaying gratification so ID turns into ego
MATURATION
adjust/develop treatment plans to allow advancement of delay of gratification
SMAL INTERMITTENT GOALS
✔✔Bullying - ✔✔Can be bad or good
if sense of self is not challenged it does not progress
Helps develop coping mechanisms= RESILIENCE
✔✔Duty to warn - ✔✔Must warn a patients potential victim of harm
-if patient fantasizes
-if patient has plan
even if they may not do it is still considered a threat
-if hair stands on back of neck you should warn
THINK ABOUT PROBABILITIES
ex- when I leave here I'm going to shoot up a school
ex- I have a gun Ive been planning to use on my brother
✔✔risk factors of childhood development disorders - ✔✔-resilience
-intelligence
-supportive environment
-temperament
✔✔resilient child - ✔✔-ability to adapt
-ability to form relationships
-ability to distant self from emotional chaos
-social intelligence
-problem solving skills
ability to perceive long term future
✔✔Communicative child disorders - ✔✔deficits in language/ speech/communication
-language disorder
-speech sound disorder
-child onset fluency disorder
-social communication disorder
✔✔language disorder - ✔✔difficulties in attaining/using language due to inability to
comprehend language
RATED A+
✔✔Outpatient characteristics - ✔✔-intermittent supervision
-stable level of functioning
-long term therapeutic relationships
-comprehensive plan
-use creative strategies
-communicate regularly
-teach adequate nutrition /self care
-encourage adherence to medication
✔✔inpatient characteristics - ✔✔-24 hour supervision
-therapeutic milieu
-stabilization of symptoms
-short term therapeutic relationship
-develop comprehensive care plan
-administer medication
-monitor nutrition
-structured socialization activities
-plan for discharge
✔✔least restrictive to most restrictive - ✔✔primary care
specialty care
patient centered medical homes
community mental health centers
Psychiatric home care
assertive community treatment
intensive outpatient programs
patient hospitalization program
Emergency care
crisis stabilization/observation unit
general hospital
State hospital
✔✔speciality treatment settings - ✔✔Pediatric psychiatric care
Geriatric psychiatric care
Veterans administration centers
Forensic psychiatric care
Alcohol and drug abuse treatment
Self-help options
✔✔criteria for involuntary admission - ✔✔-diagnosed with mental illness
-poses danger to self/others
-gravely disabled
-in need of treatment
, ✔✔Cognitive behavioral therapies Tasks - ✔✔Treatment focus- Thoughts/cognitions
Therapist role- Active/directive/challenging
Disorders treated- depression/anxiety, panic disorders/ eating disorders
Length of therapy- Short term
Technique- evaluating thoughts/behaviors, Modifying dysfunctional thoughts/behaviors
✔✔Resilience works by - ✔✔delaying gratification so ID turns into ego
MATURATION
adjust/develop treatment plans to allow advancement of delay of gratification
SMAL INTERMITTENT GOALS
✔✔Bullying - ✔✔Can be bad or good
if sense of self is not challenged it does not progress
Helps develop coping mechanisms= RESILIENCE
✔✔Duty to warn - ✔✔Must warn a patients potential victim of harm
-if patient fantasizes
-if patient has plan
even if they may not do it is still considered a threat
-if hair stands on back of neck you should warn
THINK ABOUT PROBABILITIES
ex- when I leave here I'm going to shoot up a school
ex- I have a gun Ive been planning to use on my brother
✔✔risk factors of childhood development disorders - ✔✔-resilience
-intelligence
-supportive environment
-temperament
✔✔resilient child - ✔✔-ability to adapt
-ability to form relationships
-ability to distant self from emotional chaos
-social intelligence
-problem solving skills
ability to perceive long term future
✔✔Communicative child disorders - ✔✔deficits in language/ speech/communication
-language disorder
-speech sound disorder
-child onset fluency disorder
-social communication disorder
✔✔language disorder - ✔✔difficulties in attaining/using language due to inability to
comprehend language
