NURSING 1210 EXAM 1
Mental health tools - answer me, meds, environment
Psychiatric treatments - answer1. use of words
2. drugs
3. environment
4. somatic therapies
5. behavioral conditioning
environmental elements to consider psychotherapy - answer safety, structure, norms,
limit setting, balance
when a mental health problem is suspected, it must be - answer confirmed
why may a person be admitted to an mental institution? - answer-danger to self and
others
-gravely disabled
-acutely psychotic
-suicidal/homicidal
role of nurses in a psychiatric setting - answer assess individual's current level of
functioning and direct or escort individual to appropriate resources
types of hospital-based care - answerlocked units. open/unlocked units, psychiatric
ICUs, specialty units (adult, geriatric, child and adolescent, substance abuse)
types of long term care - answernursing homes, group homes, halfway homes,
apartment living, foster care, jails
person providing counseling - answerpsychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, psych
nurse practitioner, nurse, etc
why do many psych pts seek help from PCP - answerstigma, lack of knowledge, and
reduced access
Discharge planning begins - answeradmission
types of community based care - answer-residential services
-outpatient services
-self-help resources
what are the eras of psychiatric nursing - answer-preenlightenment
, -enlightenment (1790s)
-scientific study (1870s)
-psychotropic drugs (1950s)
-community mental health (1960s)
-brain (1990s)
preenlightnement - answer-mentally ill treated no better than animals
-thought to be immune to normal biological stressors
-restricted, chained, made to perform
enlightenment - answerpinel and tuke
-human dignity upheld
-asylum movement developed
scientific study - answer-freud (early life experiences)
-kraepelin (studied the brain)
-mental illness could be studied
-study of mind and treatment approaches to psych conditions flourished
psychotropic drugs - answer-1949: lithium // 1950: thorazine // 1952 MAOIS // 1958:
TCAs ?? 1960 Benzodiazepines
-mental disorders caused by a chemical imbalance and that can be restored
-destigmatization
community mental health era - answer-community mental health centers act
- people have right to be treated in own community
-advantage: economical, accessible
-disadvantage: deinstitutionalization led to homelessness
the community mental health era began as a result of - answer-hostility toward state
hospitals
-psychotropic drugs from previous era
-civil rights
-financial incentives
decade of the brain - answer-congressional mandate
-understand brain leads to helping many people
-increase brain research funding
asylums sought - answerto provide environment free from stressors
Linda Richards - answerAmerica's first trained nurse
-opened 30 asylum-based schools
first psych nursing textbook - answer"Nursing Mental Diseases"
HARRIET BAILEY -author
Mental health tools - answer me, meds, environment
Psychiatric treatments - answer1. use of words
2. drugs
3. environment
4. somatic therapies
5. behavioral conditioning
environmental elements to consider psychotherapy - answer safety, structure, norms,
limit setting, balance
when a mental health problem is suspected, it must be - answer confirmed
why may a person be admitted to an mental institution? - answer-danger to self and
others
-gravely disabled
-acutely psychotic
-suicidal/homicidal
role of nurses in a psychiatric setting - answer assess individual's current level of
functioning and direct or escort individual to appropriate resources
types of hospital-based care - answerlocked units. open/unlocked units, psychiatric
ICUs, specialty units (adult, geriatric, child and adolescent, substance abuse)
types of long term care - answernursing homes, group homes, halfway homes,
apartment living, foster care, jails
person providing counseling - answerpsychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, psych
nurse practitioner, nurse, etc
why do many psych pts seek help from PCP - answerstigma, lack of knowledge, and
reduced access
Discharge planning begins - answeradmission
types of community based care - answer-residential services
-outpatient services
-self-help resources
what are the eras of psychiatric nursing - answer-preenlightenment
, -enlightenment (1790s)
-scientific study (1870s)
-psychotropic drugs (1950s)
-community mental health (1960s)
-brain (1990s)
preenlightnement - answer-mentally ill treated no better than animals
-thought to be immune to normal biological stressors
-restricted, chained, made to perform
enlightenment - answerpinel and tuke
-human dignity upheld
-asylum movement developed
scientific study - answer-freud (early life experiences)
-kraepelin (studied the brain)
-mental illness could be studied
-study of mind and treatment approaches to psych conditions flourished
psychotropic drugs - answer-1949: lithium // 1950: thorazine // 1952 MAOIS // 1958:
TCAs ?? 1960 Benzodiazepines
-mental disorders caused by a chemical imbalance and that can be restored
-destigmatization
community mental health era - answer-community mental health centers act
- people have right to be treated in own community
-advantage: economical, accessible
-disadvantage: deinstitutionalization led to homelessness
the community mental health era began as a result of - answer-hostility toward state
hospitals
-psychotropic drugs from previous era
-civil rights
-financial incentives
decade of the brain - answer-congressional mandate
-understand brain leads to helping many people
-increase brain research funding
asylums sought - answerto provide environment free from stressors
Linda Richards - answerAmerica's first trained nurse
-opened 30 asylum-based schools
first psych nursing textbook - answer"Nursing Mental Diseases"
HARRIET BAILEY -author
