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The 11 most important factors for recovery from mental illness:
1. Doing something worthwhile
2. Being involved in things not related to their own problems
3. Having ordinary discussions with others
4. Being included in and connected to communities
5. Being included in ordinary work roles and settings
6. Regaining belief in self
7. Recognising losses of rights, roles, responsibilities, decisions, potential, and support,
then finding out what the person wants and how to achieve it
8. Making meaning out of ones experiences
9. Recognising that ones recovery is not the same as being cured, as it is a process
with no end point
10. Being aware that recovery is an attitude, a way of approaching day-to-day
challenges and being in control
10.
Order of donning PPE
1. Hand hygiene
2. Gown
3. Mask
,4. Face shield/goggles
5. Hand hygiene
6. Gloves
Order of doffing PPE
1. Gloves
2. Hand hygiene
3. Gown
4. Hand hygiene
5. Face shield/Goggles
6. Hand hygiene
7. Mask
8. MORE hand hygiene
Definition of 'Risk of Suicide'
Risk of suicide is when a deliberate action is taken with the INTENT of ending ones life
Definition of 'Risk of Self-harm'
Self harm is the action of causing physical harm to ones self WITHOUT the
intent/motivation to end their life
Definition of 'Risk of Neglect'
Risk of neglect refers to diminished capacity for someone to care for them-self
Stable risk factors associated with suicide risk:
Age
Gender
Marital status
,History
Family hx of suicide
Childhood adversity
Employment difficulties
Dynamic risk factors associated with suicide risk:
Mental state
Isolation
Recent loss
Recent experience of suicide with family/ friend
Adversity or stress
Access to means
Unauthorised leave or failure to return from leave
Protective risk factors associated with suicide risk:
Help seeking behaviours
Strong and dependable social supports
Positive engagement with services
Stable employment and accommodation
Prolonged abstinence from substances
7 areas that need to be considered in relation to clinical scenarios and applying
ethical reasoning:
1. Rights - e.g The right to healthcare, and rights to privacy and confidentiality
2. Autonomy - Promotes the right of the client to make their own decisions and implies
the client will take responsibility of decisions made
, 3. Beneficence and Non-Maleficence: Doing good and the duty to do no harm.
4. Justice: Refers to fairness
5. Fidelity: Means to be faithful to agreements and responsibilities one has undertaken.
6. Veracity: Refers to telling the truth.
7. Trust and Reciprocity: Trust that colleagues will act in ways that are mutually
supportive and do no harm to each other.
Meaning of Section 30 MHA92
In-patient treatment order: Directs patients to reside in the hospital. The patient cannot
leave, this is an involuntary status.
Meaning of Section 8 MHA92
8a: The application for assessment. Can be submitted by anyone over the age of 18
and who has seen the patient in the last 36 hours. Must state their relationship to the
person and grounds for believing they are suffering from a mental disorder.
8b: Issue of medical certificate by a registered health professional
Meaning of Section 16 MHA92
Judges review. At any stage during the first (Section 11) and second (Section 13)
periods of assessment and treatment, an application may be made to the Court by the
patient for a review of the client's status. The judge will consider all reports, clients and
others involved in client care in order to determine if the person subject to the Act must
stay on the Act or can be released from it. A RN (usually case manager) is expected to
write a second opinion report for this hearing and accompany the client.
Meaning of Section 4 MHA92