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Discussion Topics, Mohr-Chapter 1, Introduction to Psychiatric–Mental Health Nursing
1. After learning about mental illnesses in class, a classmate expresses her fear of developing a
mental illness. She says to you, “I see a little bit of myself in every mental illness diagnosis
we talk about. I am so afraid I may develop one of these diseases one day.”
a. What are the elements of mental health? In what way do you meet these
elements? The elements of mental health:
➢ Self-governance- by acting independently, dependent, interdependently when needed
without losing autonomy.
➢ Progress toward growth or self-realization: being prepared to move forward to maximize
your capabilities.
➢ Tolerance of the unknown- facing the unpredictability of life and death with faith and
hope.
➢ Self-esteem- knowing and being accepting of personal abilities and limitations through
lifelong self-reflection and feedback from others.
➢ Reality orientation distinguishing fact from fantasy and behaving accordingly.
➢ Mastery of environment- competency, effectively, and creatively with and influencing
environmental context.
➢ Stress management- experiencing congruent emotions in delay life and tolerating stress.
➢ These elements can be meet by feeling good about ourselves, being respectful or others.
and showing compassion to others. Maintaining a positive outlook on life also helps,
and to show value and respect in diversity.
What are the influences on mental health? Which mental health influences can be
controlled, and which ones cannot?
➢ The influence of mental health are biologic, psychological, sociocultural factors.
➢ The mental health influences that can be controlled are nutrition, emotional development,
economic, valves’ and beliefs. The influences which can’t be controlled are neonatal
events family stability, ethnicity.
2. Jane, a 43-year-old mother of two, was admitted to a mental health facility after a suicide
attempt and was diagnosed with severe depression. After several weeks of antidepressant
therapy, Jane’s mood greatly improved. Jane’s friend, who was unaware of her suicide
attempt and diagnosis, noticed the difference in Jane. When asked about what caused the
difference in
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her mood, Jane said she was just feeling a little down, but she was feeling better now. Jane was
ashamed to tell her friend about her suicide attempt and her mental health diagnosis.
a. What are the similarities and differences associated with the stigma of a physical illness
and that of mental illness?
➢ The stigma is between mental illness and physical illness is greatly influenced by the
misconception of patients that suffer from mental illness and physical illness has lead to
discrimination intolerance of mental illness. More money is spent for physical illness
than it is spent for mental illness.
b. What stigmas about those with mental health conditions exist in society?
➢ The stigma’s about mental health conditions in society are discrimination and isolation
towards clients that suffer from mental health disorders which cause the clients to have
interpersonal, financial and employment social barriers.
2. Sarah has been working the past 5 years on a telemetry unit. After several experiences
with patients suffering from mental health conditions, Sarah becomes interested in
mental health nursing and is considering looking for a job as a psychiatric nurse.
a. Describe the levels of practice for the psychiatric–mental health nurse.
➢ There are two levels of practice for psychiatric mental health nurse. There is a basic
and advanced level at the basic level the nurse completes nursing school and passes the
nursing boards at the advance level the nurse receives their masters’ degree and can
practice at a higher level as a clinical nurse or a nurse practitioner.
Basic psychiatric mental health nurse:
➢ Promotes and encourages maintenance of health and prevention.
➢ Serve as case mangers.
➢ Educate clients on self -care, medication and symptom management.
➢ Educate clients families on treatment.
Advanced-psychiatric- mental health:
➢ Deliver comprehensive primary mental health services.
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➢ Provide teaching and screening to clients and perform preventive interventions.
➢ Evaluate and mange care.
➢ Formulate diagnoses ordering and interpreting laboratory test.
➢ Prescribing and managing medications.
b. Discuss the guiding principles or beliefs on which psychiatric–mental health nursing is built.
➢ Every person is worthy of dignity and respect.
➢ Every person has potential to change and grow.
➢ All people share basic human needs.
➢ All behaviors are meaningful and can be understood from the person’s perspectives
➢ People have the right to participate in decisions affecting their health and treatment
➢ Through the therapeutic use of self; via therapeutic relationships and communication nurses
help people adapt, change and grow.
4. Your instructor mentions Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General in class. You are
curious and decide to read the report at: http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/NNBBHS.pdf The
instructor asks you to share your findings with the class.
a. How does stigma affect individuals with mental illness? How can nurses seek to
combat stigma in mental health care?
➢ Stigma’s reduces clients access resources and opportunities, such as employment finding
housing and opportunities, such as employment finding housing and socializing. A nurse
can help combat stigma’s through advocacy teaching and education on mental health
care.
b. What are the risk factors in children, adults, and older adults that increase the development of
a mental illness?
➢ Stressful life situations, such as financial problems, a loved one's death or a divorce.
➢ Having a blood relative, such as a parent or sibling, with a mental illness.
➢ Having few friends or few healthy relationships.
➢ Use of alcohol and other recreational drugs.
➢ Being abused or neglected as a child.
➢ Ongoing chronic medical condition.
➢ Traumatic brain injury.
➢ A previous mental illness.
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c. What issues associated with confidentiality does the report reveal? What do you believe
could be done about these issues?
➢ Health care increasingly is delivered and paid for by for-profit corporations with business in
many states. This shift has several relevant consequences. First, individual health care
information may be held and disseminated far beyond the office of the practitioner providing
care. Second, cost containment concerns have resulted in the emergence of a variety of
techniques that depend on third-party review of a practitioner’ s judgment that an individual
should receive care, reviews that have resulted in increased demands for patient-specific
information before care is approved.
➢ In addition. private health care information may be distributed for marketing commercial
products, such as pharmaceuticals, a growing business that many believe constitutes an improper
use of such information.
➢ Finally, private health information is used to create much larger databases, for various purposes
including treatment and research, thereby increasing the number of people with access to such
information.
➢ They should not be able to buy are medical information for their profit at all, that is against
everything the healthcare department tells patient that their medical information is private. But
really, it’s not. It has all come to money for this country.
Discussion Topics, Mohr-Chapter 2, Neuroscience: Biology and Behavior
1. Mary is a 40-year-old woman who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Mary’s 20-
year-old daughter, Maria, expresses concern that her mother’s mental health disorder
is genetic.
a. What is the relationship between genetics and environment in the development of psychiatric
disorders?
➢ Certain genes may increase your risk of developing a mental illness, and your life
situation may trigger it. Environmental exposures before birth. Exposure to
environmental stressors, inflammatory conditions, toxins, alcohol or drugs while in the
womb can sometimes be linked to mental illness. psychiatric disorders like all disorders
depends on a complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors, which also
effect brain development and subsequent function. There are “second hit” factors found
in the environment that can be related to psychiatric disorders such as toxins physical
abuse neglect and infections, and prenatal exposure to alcohol.
Discussion Topics, Mohr-Chapter 1, Introduction to Psychiatric–Mental Health Nursing
1. After learning about mental illnesses in class, a classmate expresses her fear of developing a
mental illness. She says to you, “I see a little bit of myself in every mental illness diagnosis
we talk about. I am so afraid I may develop one of these diseases one day.”
a. What are the elements of mental health? In what way do you meet these
elements? The elements of mental health:
➢ Self-governance- by acting independently, dependent, interdependently when needed
without losing autonomy.
➢ Progress toward growth or self-realization: being prepared to move forward to maximize
your capabilities.
➢ Tolerance of the unknown- facing the unpredictability of life and death with faith and
hope.
➢ Self-esteem- knowing and being accepting of personal abilities and limitations through
lifelong self-reflection and feedback from others.
➢ Reality orientation distinguishing fact from fantasy and behaving accordingly.
➢ Mastery of environment- competency, effectively, and creatively with and influencing
environmental context.
➢ Stress management- experiencing congruent emotions in delay life and tolerating stress.
➢ These elements can be meet by feeling good about ourselves, being respectful or others.
and showing compassion to others. Maintaining a positive outlook on life also helps,
and to show value and respect in diversity.
What are the influences on mental health? Which mental health influences can be
controlled, and which ones cannot?
➢ The influence of mental health are biologic, psychological, sociocultural factors.
➢ The mental health influences that can be controlled are nutrition, emotional development,
economic, valves’ and beliefs. The influences which can’t be controlled are neonatal
events family stability, ethnicity.
2. Jane, a 43-year-old mother of two, was admitted to a mental health facility after a suicide
attempt and was diagnosed with severe depression. After several weeks of antidepressant
therapy, Jane’s mood greatly improved. Jane’s friend, who was unaware of her suicide
attempt and diagnosis, noticed the difference in Jane. When asked about what caused the
difference in
,Discussion Topics mental health22.
her mood, Jane said she was just feeling a little down, but she was feeling better now. Jane was
ashamed to tell her friend about her suicide attempt and her mental health diagnosis.
a. What are the similarities and differences associated with the stigma of a physical illness
and that of mental illness?
➢ The stigma is between mental illness and physical illness is greatly influenced by the
misconception of patients that suffer from mental illness and physical illness has lead to
discrimination intolerance of mental illness. More money is spent for physical illness
than it is spent for mental illness.
b. What stigmas about those with mental health conditions exist in society?
➢ The stigma’s about mental health conditions in society are discrimination and isolation
towards clients that suffer from mental health disorders which cause the clients to have
interpersonal, financial and employment social barriers.
2. Sarah has been working the past 5 years on a telemetry unit. After several experiences
with patients suffering from mental health conditions, Sarah becomes interested in
mental health nursing and is considering looking for a job as a psychiatric nurse.
a. Describe the levels of practice for the psychiatric–mental health nurse.
➢ There are two levels of practice for psychiatric mental health nurse. There is a basic
and advanced level at the basic level the nurse completes nursing school and passes the
nursing boards at the advance level the nurse receives their masters’ degree and can
practice at a higher level as a clinical nurse or a nurse practitioner.
Basic psychiatric mental health nurse:
➢ Promotes and encourages maintenance of health and prevention.
➢ Serve as case mangers.
➢ Educate clients on self -care, medication and symptom management.
➢ Educate clients families on treatment.
Advanced-psychiatric- mental health:
➢ Deliver comprehensive primary mental health services.
,Discussion Topics mental health22.
➢ Provide teaching and screening to clients and perform preventive interventions.
➢ Evaluate and mange care.
➢ Formulate diagnoses ordering and interpreting laboratory test.
➢ Prescribing and managing medications.
b. Discuss the guiding principles or beliefs on which psychiatric–mental health nursing is built.
➢ Every person is worthy of dignity and respect.
➢ Every person has potential to change and grow.
➢ All people share basic human needs.
➢ All behaviors are meaningful and can be understood from the person’s perspectives
➢ People have the right to participate in decisions affecting their health and treatment
➢ Through the therapeutic use of self; via therapeutic relationships and communication nurses
help people adapt, change and grow.
4. Your instructor mentions Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General in class. You are
curious and decide to read the report at: http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/NNBBHS.pdf The
instructor asks you to share your findings with the class.
a. How does stigma affect individuals with mental illness? How can nurses seek to
combat stigma in mental health care?
➢ Stigma’s reduces clients access resources and opportunities, such as employment finding
housing and opportunities, such as employment finding housing and socializing. A nurse
can help combat stigma’s through advocacy teaching and education on mental health
care.
b. What are the risk factors in children, adults, and older adults that increase the development of
a mental illness?
➢ Stressful life situations, such as financial problems, a loved one's death or a divorce.
➢ Having a blood relative, such as a parent or sibling, with a mental illness.
➢ Having few friends or few healthy relationships.
➢ Use of alcohol and other recreational drugs.
➢ Being abused or neglected as a child.
➢ Ongoing chronic medical condition.
➢ Traumatic brain injury.
➢ A previous mental illness.
, Discussion Topics mental health22.
c. What issues associated with confidentiality does the report reveal? What do you believe
could be done about these issues?
➢ Health care increasingly is delivered and paid for by for-profit corporations with business in
many states. This shift has several relevant consequences. First, individual health care
information may be held and disseminated far beyond the office of the practitioner providing
care. Second, cost containment concerns have resulted in the emergence of a variety of
techniques that depend on third-party review of a practitioner’ s judgment that an individual
should receive care, reviews that have resulted in increased demands for patient-specific
information before care is approved.
➢ In addition. private health care information may be distributed for marketing commercial
products, such as pharmaceuticals, a growing business that many believe constitutes an improper
use of such information.
➢ Finally, private health information is used to create much larger databases, for various purposes
including treatment and research, thereby increasing the number of people with access to such
information.
➢ They should not be able to buy are medical information for their profit at all, that is against
everything the healthcare department tells patient that their medical information is private. But
really, it’s not. It has all come to money for this country.
Discussion Topics, Mohr-Chapter 2, Neuroscience: Biology and Behavior
1. Mary is a 40-year-old woman who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Mary’s 20-
year-old daughter, Maria, expresses concern that her mother’s mental health disorder
is genetic.
a. What is the relationship between genetics and environment in the development of psychiatric
disorders?
➢ Certain genes may increase your risk of developing a mental illness, and your life
situation may trigger it. Environmental exposures before birth. Exposure to
environmental stressors, inflammatory conditions, toxins, alcohol or drugs while in the
womb can sometimes be linked to mental illness. psychiatric disorders like all disorders
depends on a complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors, which also
effect brain development and subsequent function. There are “second hit” factors found
in the environment that can be related to psychiatric disorders such as toxins physical
abuse neglect and infections, and prenatal exposure to alcohol.
