Mental Health Nursing Lecture & Clinical (NURS 3125/4510) with correct answers 100%

Mental Health Nursing Lecture & Clinical (NURS 3125/4510) with correct answers 100% Mental Health (WHO Definition) - Correct Answer A state of well-being in which each individual is able to realize his or her own potential, cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively and fruitfully, and make a contribution to society Mental Health (Public Health Agency Definition) - Correct Answer The capacity for each of us to feel, think, and act in ways that enhance our ability to enjoy life and to deal with the challenges we face. It is a positive sense of emotional and spiritual well-being that respects the importance of culture, equity, social justice, interconnections, and personal dignity Why is good mental health so important? - Correct Answer 1. Better physical health outcomes 2. Improved educational attainment 3. Increased economic participation 4. Rich social relationships Mental Illness Definition (Public Health Agency Definition) - Correct Answer Alterations in cognition, mood, or behaviour that are coupled with significant distress and impaired functioning Epp Report and the Two Conceptualizations of Mental Health & Illness - Correct Answer • Published in 1988, called the Mental Health for Canadians: Striking a Balance • Proposed 7 guiding principles for the development of public policies to support mental health • Identified 3 challenges to mental health: 1. Reducing inequities 2. Increasing prevention 3. Enhancing coping • Mental Disorder Continuum Mental Health Commission of Canada (2012) Found similar challenges to mental health as the Epp Report - Correct Answer Created 6 Strategies... 6 Strategies from Mental health Commission of Canada (2012) - Correct Answer 1. Promotion and Prevention 2. Recovery and Rights 3. Access to Service 4. Disparities and Diversity 5. First Nations, Inuit, and Métis 6. Leadership and Collaboration Contributing Factors to Severity and Progression of a Mental Illness: Resilience - Correct Answer • A characteristic of mental health increasingly being promoted as essential to the recovery process • Using resources to that can support well-being • Depends far more on the quality of the social and physical ecologies surrounding people than on individual personality traits • Helps people ton face tragedies, loss, trauma, and severe stress • Instead of falling victim to negative emotions, resilient people recognize such feelings and negotiate complex personal and societal systems in order to deal with their responses and the responses of others Mental Health Recovery - Correct Answer Recovery rests of several key concerns: • Respect for individuals contexts and wishes • Hope for a better future • Dignity and self-determination • Collaboration and reflection • And a focus on strengths and personal responsibility Culture - Correct Answer • Norms dictate was is considered to be normal, so depending on from what cultural lens you look through, some behaviours may be deemed as normal, while others are abnormal • Can categorize different behaviours as mental illnesses Epidemiology - Correct Answer • Quantitative study of the distribution of mental disorders in human populations • From this data, it can be determined who are the high-risk groups and certain risk factors Incidence - Correct Answer Number of new cases of mental disorders in a healthy population within a given period of time Prevalence - Correct Answer Total number of cases, new and existing, in a given population during a specific period of time, regardless of when the subjects became ill Clinical Epidemiology - Correct Answer • Broad field that addresses what happens after people with illness are seen by clinical care providers • Studies are conducted in groups usually defined by the illness/symptoms or by diagnostic procedures or treatments given to address the illness or symptoms • Can include the following: -Studies of the natural history of illness -Studies of diagnostic screening tests -Observational and experimental studies of interventions used to treat people with the illness or symptoms International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) - Correct Answer • Sets the global health information standard for mortality and morbidity statistics • Used to define diseases, study disease patterns, monitor outcomes, and subsequently allocate resources based on the prevalence of the disease ICD-10-CA - Correct Answer • Canadian Institute of Health revised the ICD-10 and it became the ICD-10-CA • Goes beyond defining and classifying diseases to describe conditions and situations that are not diseases, including, for example risk factors to health and psychosocial circumstances • Better represents the SDOH Nursing Diagnosis - Correct Answer • Clinical judgement about individual, family, or community responses to actual or potential health problems and life processes