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NURS 460 Exam 1 Mental Health |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




questions with answers |\ |\




OVERVIEW AND CONCEPTS OF MENTAL HEALTH |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




Factors Impacting Mental Health and Mental Illness -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Environment |\ |\




-Social and Economical circumstances
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-Individual Attributes |\




Mental Health Continuum - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A
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conceptual line used to represent levels of mental health
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and mental illness that vary from person to person and
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vary for a particular person over time.
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"Mental Disorder" Characteristics: - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔•Distress
•Disability
•Risk


Mental Health History - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔•Nurses
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begin to educate nurses.
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,•Psychiatric theory includes interpersonal and emotional
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dimensions.
•National Mental Health Act of 1946
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•Elimination of single-focus psychiatric nursing schools
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*•Hildegard Peplau (Interpersonal Relations Theory)*
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•Nursing Theory (Modeling & Role-Modeling and others)
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•Mental Health Parity Act (1996) - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔•Parity = Equivalence |\ |\




•Required insurance companies to provide equal
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treatment coverage for psychiatric disorders
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•Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) -
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2008 (Wellstone & Domenici) - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔•Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act
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(MHPAEA) - 2008 (Wellstone & Domenici)
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•Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔•Coverage for most uninsured Americans
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through expanded Medicaid eligibility (for very poor)
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•Created health insurance exchanges to offer more
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choices
•"Insurance mandate" for coverage |\ |\ |\

,Stigma - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔•Advocacy and
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reduction of negative connotation |\ |\ |\




Psychiatric-mental health nursing is - CORRECT ANSWERS |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



✔✔"a specialized area of nursing practice committed to
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promoting mental health through the assessment,
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diagnosis, and treatment of human responses to mental
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health problems and psychiatric disorders" (ANA, 2007, p.
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14)"
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Greatest impact on psychiatric nursing today... - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔= advancements in science and technology
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Psychiatric Nursing Today... - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A
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specialty within nursing with its own standards of care
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Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Standards of Practice - |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ADOP |\ |\




1.Assessment
2.Diagnosis (nursing) |\




3.Outcomes Identification |\




4.Planning
(5. Implementation)
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(6. Evaluation)
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, 5.Implementation Components - CORRECT ANSWERS |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



✔✔A.Coordination of Care |\ |\




B.Health Teaching and Health Promotion
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C.Milieu Therapy|\




D.Phamacological, Biological, and Integrative Therapies |\ |\ |\ |\




*E.Prescriptive Authority and Treatment (APRN only) |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




F.Psychotherapy (APRN only) |\ |\




G.Consultation (APRN only)* |\ |\




Basic-level PMHNs are... - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔•registered nurses who have graduated from an |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



accredited nursing education program and are licensed to
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practice in their state
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Advanced practice PMHNs are... - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔educated at the master's or doctorate level of
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education in the specialty and have achieved certification
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in this specialty by the American Nurses Credentialing
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Center (ANCC)
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Therapeutic Milieu - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔•Set limits
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•Teach basic psychosocial skills
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•Simulate the "real world"|\ |\ |\

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