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Test Bank Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (3rd Edition by Varcarolis) ALL, Exams of Nursing

Test Bank Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (3rd Edition by Varcarolis) ALL CHAPTERS COVERED 1. Patient centered care: The patient is the full partner in providing care based on patients’ preferences, values, and needs 2.Quality Improvement: 3. Safety 4. Information 5.Teamwork and Collaboration 6.EBP

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Test Bank Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (3rd Edition
by Varcarolis) ALL CHAPTERS COVERED
1. Patient centered care:
The patient is the full partner in providing care based on patients’ preferences, values, and
needs
2.Quality Improvement:
3. Safety
4. Information
5.Teamwork and Collaboration
6.EBP
QSEN
Personal information:
Relationship, Religion, Living,
Appearance:
Grooming, Pupil, Ht, Wt, tattoos/piercing, relationship between appearance and age
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by Varcarolis) ALL CHAPTERS COVERED

  1. Patient centered care: The patient is the full partner in providing care based on patients’ preferences, values, and needs 2.Quality Improvement:
  2. Safety
  3. Information 5.Teamwork and Collaboration 6.EBP QSEN Personal information: Relationship, Religion, Living, Appearance: Grooming, Pupil, Ht, Wt, tattoos/piercing, relationship between appearance and age

Behavior: Body movements, eye contact Speech: Rate, volume, disturbance, cluttering Affect and mood: Ex: flat, bland, animated, angry, withdrawn, appropriate; sad, labile, euphoric Thought: Process and content Perceptual disturbances: Hallucinations, Illusions Cognition: Orientation, LOC, memory, attention, abstraction, Judgement Mental Status Examination

  1. WHat day of the week is it?
  2. What is the year
  3. What state are we in
  1. Does the patient have a spiritual or religious affiliation
  2. what gives the patient strength and hope
  3. Participation in any activities
  4. What role dose the practice play in the patient life
  5. Dose the religion help in stressful situations
  6. Are there any restrictions, diet, medical interventions Spiritual Assessment
  7. Interpreter?
  8. First response to illness
  9. How has the illness been treating
  10. How is the medical condition viewed by the culture
  11. Special cultural practice
  12. What attitudes doe the culture have around this medical condition
  1. Are there cultural beliefs that help cope
  2. What type of cultural foods Cultural Assessment RN DX words and symbols "Content" verbal communication 90% of communication "Process" Body behaviors Facial expressions Eye cast Voice related behaviors

Accepting Giving Recognition Offering self offering general leads giving broad opening placing the events in time making observations encouraging description of perception encouraging compassion restarting reflecting focusing exploring

giving information seeking clarification presenting reality voicing doubt seeking consensual validation verbalizing the implied encouraging evaluation attempting to translate into feelings suggesting collaboration summarizing encouraging formualtion of a plan of action Techniques that Enhance Communication Giving premature advice

Asian Indian men may greet a woman with palms together German, Swedish, and BG shake hand at the beginning and end of a meeting Japan - handshakes are appropriate but a pat on the back is not Chinese Americans do not like any contact from stranger Native Americans reach out and slightly touch each others hands Importance of touch in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent) Affections, respect, gratification of dependency needs, Hostility, jealousy, competitiveness, love Concrete ex of transference phenomena can include special favors Transference Tendency of the nurse to displace feelings related to people in his or her past onto a patient Countertransference Values - abstract standards and represent an ideal either pos or neg (modeling/role model)

Beliefs - affected by our culture and subculture Being aware of our own beliefs and values allows for us to understand what is right for us is not always right for another Values Beliefs and Self Awareness (Peplau) Orientation phase

  • an atmosphere to promote rapport
  • defined roles
  • confidentiality
  • pt problems are articulated and goals are established Working phase
  • maintain relationship and gather data
  • promotion and behavioral changes
  • evaluate problems and goals
  • promote alternative adaptation Termination phase
  • summarizing goals and objectives
  • discuss coping strategies
  • review time spent together

nurse may respond and then refocus back to the pt and remind the pt that this time is for them and their concerns pt ask a personal question uncomfortable clear lines and expected behavior, restating the appropriate roles pt make a sexual advance uncomfortable, anxious, responsible stay with the pt, its ok to cry, offer tissue silence pt cries rejected, anxious, abandoned pause the interview, let the pt settle their anxiety pt leaves before a session is over rejected or ineffectual

short timed visits at planned times Pt does not want to talk uncomfortable, examine the meaning politely refuse expensive gifts pt gives the nurse a present conflicted to engage between both patients the importance of staying with one pt demonstrates that dedicated time is set and that it for both pts one pt interrupts another pt genuineness: (self awareness) can be sensed and key to building trust empathy: multidimensional; cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components positive regard: respect, attitudes, actions, attending, suspending value judgement, helping pts develop resources Factors that enhance growth

Behavioral cues -

  • giving away prized possessions
  • writing farewell notes
  • making a will
  • putting emotional affairs in order
  • having global insomnia
  • sudden improvement in mood
  • neglecting personal hygiene Risk assessment Short term
  • will have fam/friend stay overnight
  • f/u counselor
  • list of self help/friends/resources Long term
  • environment to minimize self destructive acts
  • explore alternative and problem solving skills
  • increased coping skills
  • feeling less isolated or lonely
  • engaged in treatment for co-occurring issue Outcome
  1. follow protocol 2.keep records of behavior, verbal and physical
  2. suicide prevention (1:1 arms length away) 15 min visual check
  3. no suicide contract
  4. encourage pt to talk about their feelings Crisis interventions childhood aggression violence in childhood abuse of ETOH and drugs Male 15- 24 victims of violence poor populations environmental and demographic correlation of violence
  5. S/S angry, hyperactive, anxiety, verbal abuse, loud voice, intense eye contact
  6. recent acts of violent

Benzo first choice; safe but may have paradoxical reactions zispiradone (2nd gen) RX acute aggression Sedative - Hypnotic Anxiolytic

  • relieve anxiety MOA: hypothalamic, thalamic, and limbic systems (GABA receptors inhibiting over stimulation) does Indication: sedation, skeletal muscle relaxation, anxiety/depression, acute seizure disorder, ETOH withdrawal, short term insomnia tx Contra: narrow angle glaucoma, pregnancy AE/SE: Fall risk, the greater the dose the greater the AE, not w/ ETOH, MUST TAPPPER to avoid rebound insomnia Antidote: Flumazelin S/S tox somnolence, confusion, diminished reflex, coma (O2, ariway management, H2O)

RX - RX: Azole antifungals, ditiazem, pretease inhibitor, macrolide antibiotics, grapefruit juice, CNS depressants, opiods, olanzapine, rifampin kava and valerian supplements Benzodiazepines (Class IV) RX - anticonvulsants RX chronic aggression MOA:

  • reduce nerves ability to be stimulated
  • suppress transmission of impulses from one nerve to the next
  • decrease speed of nerve impulse conduction within a neuron Indication: Prevention or control of chronic seizure, acute tx of convulsions and status epilepticus AE/SE: Black Box warning as of 2008 d/t suicidal thoughts and behavior NI: therapeutic drug monitoring anticonvulsants "carbazapine" PARKINSONISM tremors; masklike face;