RASMUSSEN MENTAL HEALTH STUDY GUIDED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Erickson's Stages of Development - School age 6-12 yrs old - ✔✔Industry vs.
Inferiority
Task: self confidence thru learning and competition
✔✔Erickson's Stages of Development - Adolescent 12-20 yrs old
REMEMBER - ✔✔Identity vs. Role confusion
Task: differentiation from parents leads to fidelity, integrate all the above for sense of
self
✔✔Erickson's Stages of Development - Young adult 20-30 yrs old
REMEMBER - ✔✔Intimacy vs. isolation
Task: form intense long term relationships
✔✔Erickson's Stages of Development - Adult 30-65 yrs old
REMEMBER - ✔✔Generativity vs. Self-absorption
Task: achieve life goals and obtain concern for future generation
, ✔✔Erickson's Stages of Development - Older adult 65+ - ✔✔Integrity vs. Despair
Task: derive meaning from life and sense of self worth
✔✔Neurotransmitters - ✔✔Chapter 4
✔✔Dopamine - ✔✔Functions:
COGNITION
MOTIVATION
MOVEMENT
High levels are linked to schitzophrenia
✔✔Serotonin - ✔✔Functions:
MOOD
ATTENTION
BODY TEMPERATURE
✔✔Norepinephrine - ✔✔Functions:
MOOD
COGNITION
PERCEPTION
✔✔Gamma-Amnio Butyric Acid (GABA) - ✔✔Functions:
REGULATES:
EXCITEMENT
ANXIETY
✔✔Patient Rights - ✔✔Right to refuse
Right to withdraw/retract consent
Right to withhold consent (written or verbal)
Right to informed consent
✔✔Nurse-client vs. social relationship - ✔✔Understanding that we are here to help the
patient, and discussions should remain focused on the patient.
Nurse is safe, confidential, reliable, and consistent, and that relationship is conducted
within appropriate and clear boundaries.
✔✔Orientation phase - ✔✔Can last for a few meetings or long period of time, the first
time the nurse and patient meet.
This is where your assessment and history is done.
✔✔Working phase - ✔✔Interventions
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Erickson's Stages of Development - School age 6-12 yrs old - ✔✔Industry vs.
Inferiority
Task: self confidence thru learning and competition
✔✔Erickson's Stages of Development - Adolescent 12-20 yrs old
REMEMBER - ✔✔Identity vs. Role confusion
Task: differentiation from parents leads to fidelity, integrate all the above for sense of
self
✔✔Erickson's Stages of Development - Young adult 20-30 yrs old
REMEMBER - ✔✔Intimacy vs. isolation
Task: form intense long term relationships
✔✔Erickson's Stages of Development - Adult 30-65 yrs old
REMEMBER - ✔✔Generativity vs. Self-absorption
Task: achieve life goals and obtain concern for future generation
, ✔✔Erickson's Stages of Development - Older adult 65+ - ✔✔Integrity vs. Despair
Task: derive meaning from life and sense of self worth
✔✔Neurotransmitters - ✔✔Chapter 4
✔✔Dopamine - ✔✔Functions:
COGNITION
MOTIVATION
MOVEMENT
High levels are linked to schitzophrenia
✔✔Serotonin - ✔✔Functions:
MOOD
ATTENTION
BODY TEMPERATURE
✔✔Norepinephrine - ✔✔Functions:
MOOD
COGNITION
PERCEPTION
✔✔Gamma-Amnio Butyric Acid (GABA) - ✔✔Functions:
REGULATES:
EXCITEMENT
ANXIETY
✔✔Patient Rights - ✔✔Right to refuse
Right to withdraw/retract consent
Right to withhold consent (written or verbal)
Right to informed consent
✔✔Nurse-client vs. social relationship - ✔✔Understanding that we are here to help the
patient, and discussions should remain focused on the patient.
Nurse is safe, confidential, reliable, and consistent, and that relationship is conducted
within appropriate and clear boundaries.
✔✔Orientation phase - ✔✔Can last for a few meetings or long period of time, the first
time the nurse and patient meet.
This is where your assessment and history is done.
✔✔Working phase - ✔✔Interventions
