Please use your textbook and Saunder’s book p. 920
– 990 to help answer following to prepare for your
upcoming Mental Health exam in addition to the
required reading in your textbook.
Review Patients right’s
1. Right to refuse treatment – Patients have the
right to withhold consent or withdraw
consent at any time, even if they are
involuntarily committed. Verbal or written
retractions. Psychotropic drug treatment if
the patient is imminent harmful to self or
other institutions can medicate without
consent of court hearing.
2. Right to privacy- legal duty to maintain
confidentiality
3. Right to HIPAA- legally protects the
psychiatric patient’s right to receive
treatment and to have medical records kept
confidential.
4. Right to informed consent- Informed about
disorder, tx options, tv benefits and tx risks.
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, While registered nurses may provide
education about treatment, typically, it is the
prescriber who is legally responsible for
securing informed consent.
5. Advance directives
a.Documentation required
• Designation of preferred physician
and therapists
• Appointment of someone to make
mental health treatment decisions
• Preferences regarding medications
to take or not take
• Consent or lack of consent for
electroconvulsive therapy
• Consent or lack of consent for
admission to a psychiatric facility
• Preferred facilities and unacceptable
facilities
• Individuals who should not visit
b.When the healthcare has to the right to
override patients’ rights
Peplau’s interpersonal relationship
Peplau’s therapeutic Nurse -Patient relationship
1. Pre-interaction
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