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Mental Health Psychiatric Nursing: Theory, Principles, and Trends

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This deck covers essential concepts in mental health psychiatric nursing, including prevention strategies, treatment models, and key terms.

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List the 4 Fundamental Objectives that guide PMH nurses and related disciplines?

Promotion & protection of mental health; Prevention of mental disorders; Treatment of mental disorders; Recovery and rehabilitation
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Definition
List the 4 Fundamental Objectives that guide PMH nurses and related disciplines?
Promotion & protection of mental health; Prevention of mental disorders; Treatment of mental disorders; Recovery and rehabilitation
Universal Agreement
Mental Health is an integral part of total health, inseparable component of overall health, welfare and safety. It affects quality of life, effective ...
Core Mental Health Disciplines:
Marriage and Family Therapy; Psychiatrists; Psychologists; Psychiatric Social Work Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: Bottom to Top
Basic physiologic needs - food, water, shelter, etc; Safety and security - freedom from harm, financial support, etc; Love and Belonging - healthy sup...
What is the most important site to promote and protect mental health? and Why?
Home because mental health starts from an early life experiences.
How do nurses promote and protect mental health?
Give and teach appropriate and factual contents of mental health; Ensuring healthcare access; Provide ongoing education; Reduce stigma
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Mental Health Psychiatric Nursing: Theory, Principles, and Trends
TermDefinition
List the 4 Fundamental Objectives that guide PMH nurses and related disciplines?
Promotion & protection of mental health; Prevention of mental disorders; Treatment of mental disorders; Recovery and rehabilitation
Universal Agreement
Mental Health is an integral part of total health, inseparable component of overall health, welfare and safety. It affects quality of life, effective daily functioning and overall perception of well-being are closely linked to sound mental health.
Core Mental Health Disciplines:
Marriage and Family Therapy; Psychiatrists; Psychologists; Psychiatric Social Work Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: Bottom to Top
Basic physiologic needs - food, water, shelter, etc; Safety and security - freedom from harm, financial support, etc; Love and Belonging - healthy support group, open communication, etc; Self-Esteem - positive self-regard, confidence; Self-Actualization - Maximum potential, express talents, satisfaction, etc.
What is the most important site to promote and protect mental health? and Why?
Home because mental health starts from an early life experiences.
How do nurses promote and protect mental health?
Give and teach appropriate and factual contents of mental health; Ensuring healthcare access; Provide ongoing education; Reduce stigma
Stigma
Disgrace or shame of mental illness; Delays care and gives poor prognosis for the patients because it can cloud their judgment
Primary Prevention
Aims to reduce mental health problems before it even occurs.
Secondary Prevention
Aims to reduce the impact of injury or disease after it occurred.; Deals with short term consequences
Tertiary Prevention
Reduce residual effects of a disorder and promote rehabilitation.; Deals with long term consequences
Treatment is based on:
Patient centered model
What is patient centered model
Patient will make their own decisions in their treatment plan. This allows for better outcome.
Best Practice
A method or technique that is considered to be the best among other treatment choices that it can also be the standard way of doing things.
When can a patient not make their own treatment decisions?
Person is unable to think appropriately due to mental incompetence or psychosis when person is so severely depressed that he or she is intent on committing suicide.
Evidence-based practice
uses research evidence to solve clinical problems.
Integrated Care
• Look at overall patient’s problems, • Mind and body connection. • Integrate different specialties if necessary • Collaborate with others to treat everything about the patient.
Reasons for interest in recovery and rehabilitation phase of mental health
• Allow patients to join society again and allow them to be active in their treatment. • Prevents relapses and recurrences with patients • More funding is given to mental health facilities.
Other Main Issues of Mental Health
•Funding •Safety issues •Quality of care issues •Social stigma •Standardization of APN roles
Therapeutic alliance
• Professional relationship between nurses and patients that is established on trust. • Allows patients to discuss their needs and problems without judgment.
Comprehensive care model for PMHN
• Biologic • Social • Spiritual • Environmental • Culture • Psychological
Risk Factors of Mental Health
• Characteristics that increases a person's chance of developing mental illnesses. • Biological • Psychological • Sociocultural • Environmental
Protective factors of Mental Health
• These guards against person's chance of becoming mentally ill. • Resilience • Good Overall health • High stress tolerance • High motivation and competence • Supportive family/friends • Sufficient income
Neuroplasticity
ability of brain to grow and reorganize synaptic connections
Disease
Distinctive process in the body and with specific causes and characteristic symptoms
Disorder
Irregularity, disturbance or interruption of normal functions
Syndrome
Cluster of symptoms occurring together and characterizing a specific disease
Two classifications of Mental Health that lists mental disorders and diagnosis
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) | International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
Axis I-V:
I: Consisted of mental health and substance disorders II: Personality disorders and mental retardation III: Coding general medical conditions IV: Psychosocial and environmental problems V: Assessment of overall functioning known as Global Assessment Functioning (GAF) scale.
Four benefits of reform:
All patients wit psychiatric or substance abuse disorder will be included in care; Care cannot be refused to patients with mental health problems; Increased funding, more health centers and more access; Parity, equal payments for mental health services like medsurg.