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PNG 2254- Mental Health Nursing Exam
Study Guide with Complete Solutions
Formal patient - Ans:✔✔-a patient detained by 2 admission certificates or 2 renewal certificates
Informal patient - Ans:✔✔-pt seeks examination
voluntary admission - Ans:✔✔-Inpatient care sought by a patient
Involuntary admission - Ans:✔✔--danger to self or others
-need immediate treatment
-is gravely disabled
Mental illness/disorder - Ans:✔✔-disturbance in cognition, emotional regulation, or behaviour that
decreases mental function
3 criteria required to formally admit and detain a patient - Ans:✔✔-1. have mental disorder
2. harm to self or others
3. unable to be admitted except "certified"
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Review panel - Ans:✔✔-professionals that oversee care and discharge
they are psychiatrists, physicians, general public, lawyer
What are the 8 rights of "certification" - Ans:✔✔-1. information
2. confidentiality
3. communications (not allowed personal phone)
4. visitors
5. legal representative
6. appeal
7. have an advocate
8. refuse treatment
CLPNA code of ethics: responsibilities as a nurse - Ans:✔✔-1. knowledge
2. accountability
3. patient safety
4. continuing competence
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5. collaboration
6. leadership
Ethics - Ans:✔✔-distinguishing right from wrong
Bioethics - Ans:✔✔-putting the ethical decision into play in the workforce etc.
Autonomy - Ans:✔✔-emphasizes the status of persons as autonomous moral agents whose rights to
determine their destinies should always be respected. eg. independent decision making
Beneficence - Ans:✔✔-promoting good for others
Legal right - Ans:✔✔-a right on which the society has agreed and formalized into law
Restraint policy - Ans:✔✔-need doctors order, security outside of room at all times, use the least amount
of restraint as possible, check on them every 15minutes
Moral Behaviour - Ans:✔✔-how you think others should be treated
Values - Ans:✔✔-ideas and beliefs that people hold dear and try to live by
Broken Boundaries - Ans:✔✔-Favoring a client
Keeping secrets with a client
Changing dress style for working with a particular client
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PNG 2254- Mental Health Nursing Exam
Study Guide with Complete Solutions
Formal patient - Ans:✔✔-a patient detained by 2 admission certificates or 2 renewal certificates
Informal patient - Ans:✔✔-pt seeks examination
voluntary admission - Ans:✔✔-Inpatient care sought by a patient
Involuntary admission - Ans:✔✔--danger to self or others
-need immediate treatment
-is gravely disabled
Mental illness/disorder - Ans:✔✔-disturbance in cognition, emotional regulation, or behaviour that
decreases mental function
3 criteria required to formally admit and detain a patient - Ans:✔✔-1. have mental disorder
2. harm to self or others
3. unable to be admitted except "certified"
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Review panel - Ans:✔✔-professionals that oversee care and discharge
they are psychiatrists, physicians, general public, lawyer
What are the 8 rights of "certification" - Ans:✔✔-1. information
2. confidentiality
3. communications (not allowed personal phone)
4. visitors
5. legal representative
6. appeal
7. have an advocate
8. refuse treatment
CLPNA code of ethics: responsibilities as a nurse - Ans:✔✔-1. knowledge
2. accountability
3. patient safety
4. continuing competence
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5. collaboration
6. leadership
Ethics - Ans:✔✔-distinguishing right from wrong
Bioethics - Ans:✔✔-putting the ethical decision into play in the workforce etc.
Autonomy - Ans:✔✔-emphasizes the status of persons as autonomous moral agents whose rights to
determine their destinies should always be respected. eg. independent decision making
Beneficence - Ans:✔✔-promoting good for others
Legal right - Ans:✔✔-a right on which the society has agreed and formalized into law
Restraint policy - Ans:✔✔-need doctors order, security outside of room at all times, use the least amount
of restraint as possible, check on them every 15minutes
Moral Behaviour - Ans:✔✔-how you think others should be treated
Values - Ans:✔✔-ideas and beliefs that people hold dear and try to live by
Broken Boundaries - Ans:✔✔-Favoring a client
Keeping secrets with a client
Changing dress style for working with a particular client
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