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Depressed Patients with Suicidal Thoughts

• Depressed patients in stressful situations exhibiting suicidal thoughts require hospital treatment

Define Mental Health

• Mental health involves developing a comprehensive understanding of reality and values, leading to individual and social ideals, according to Kazimierz Dąbrowski

Rules in Psychiatric Wards

• In psychiatric wards for insane offenders, treatment and safeguarding receive equal consideration

Key Environmental Factor for Child Development

• Family is the most important environmental factor influencing a child's psychological development

Court Action after Unconsented Psychiatric Admission

• The court must proceed in any case of a patient's admission to a psychiatric hospital without consent

ICD-10 Classification Codes

• The ICD-10 classifies codes F60-69 as adult personality and behavioural disorders

National Mental Health Programme

• The National Programme for the Protection of Mental Health was implemented from 2017-2022

Cause of Serotonergic Syndrome

• Serotonergic syndrome results from a sharp increase in serotonin levels

Goals of Community Psychiatry

• Community psychiatry aims to treat patients in the least repressive conditions possible

Community-Based Mental Healthcare

• This implemention is a prerequisite for developing psychiatric healthcare in Poland, including accessible care close to home

Risk Factors for Self-Harm

• Alcohol is a major psychoactive substance increasing the risk of suicide attempts and self-harm

Communication in Mental Health

• Actions that do not include paraphrasing are therapeutic behaviors that begin contact and communication in relationships with a patient with mental disorder

Disorders of Consciousness

• Semi-sleeping is not a qualitative disorder of consciousness

Techniques for Anxiety Disorders

• Recommended techniques for communicating with patients that have anxiety disorders include offering support, and actively listening

Infectious Diseases and Mental Retardation

• Rubella, toxoplasmosis and chickenpox are infectious diseases that can harm the foetus and cause mental retardation

Common Cause of Dementia

• Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia

Characteristics of Paranoid Personality

• Paranoid personalities show excessive sensitivity to failure, are unable to forgive insults and tend to distort experiences

Atypical Antipsychotics

• Perphenazine (Trilafon) are not included in atypical antipsychotics

Treatment for Addicts

• Opiates are treated with methadone substitution treatment

Authenticity with Mentally ill Patients

• Authenticity is vital because mentally ill patients are sensitive to inauthentic behaviour

Communicating with Mentally Ill Patients

• Focus on their needs, ensuring a willingness to talk, while communicating with the mentally ill patient

Sentences to Avoid

• Comforting sentences should be avoided, as they irritate the patient

Goals of Therapeutic Communication

• Improving stress management, social skills, and self-efficacy happen with therapeutic communication when a patient is addicted

What is Paraphrasing

• Repeating the essential elements of the patient speech is paraphrasing

Tolerance with Mentally Ill Patients

• Tolerance is vital in creating acceptance of the patient with mental illness

Composition of Treatment Teams

• The treatment team includes qualified individuals with relevant experience collaboratively achieving therapeutic goals

Communicating with Anxious Patients

• Collect psychological information about the anxiety when communicating with a patient

Goals in Caring for Autistic Children

• Focus on improving speech, self-care, and social competence

Actions to avoid when caring for a patient with Mania

• Lack of assistance in organizing time until the morning when the patient can not sleep

Electroconvulsive Therapy Requirements

• Double consent is always required for electroconvulsive treatment of the mentally ill

Childhood Schizophrenia indicators

• Heraldic symptoms in adolescence and weirdness in children is associated with the onset of schizophrenia later in life

Conceptual Model of Nursing

• Betty Neuman's model views the patient as an open system affected by environmental stressors

Psychological Aspects of Occupational Therapy

• Occupational therapy improves self-esteem, understanding of patient needs, and increases self esteem

Admission Staff Responsibilities

• Recognizing problems and making diagnoses are the staff's responsibilities during admission

Reducing Suicide Risk

• Showing patients calmness, implementing decisiveness, and showing activity achieves risk reduction of suicide in a depressed patient

Elderly Anxiety Symptoms

• Immaturity, alcohol dependence, dependence on sedative medication, and lack of support are symptoms shown in elderly people with anxiety

Limits on Physical Restraint

• The use of physical restraint cannot exceed 16 hours

Reasons for Lack of Cooperation

• Psychotic sensations are the main reason a mania patient does not want to cooperate with the treatment team

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

• Neurosurgical treatment (deep brain stimulation) is used when a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder is treated with therapy and medication for years with no improvement

Assessing Nutritional Status

• Measuring weight and arm circumference and assessing skin folds is needed in a patient whom sufferers from an eating disorder

Statements Not Indicating Suicide Risk

• Depressed Patients do have thoughts of suicide but if they state the family will suffer

Rehab unit activities

• Addicts are directed in nursing activities towards abstinence, knowledge, and health improvement

Handling Escalating Aggression

• Ensuring staff numbers, staff competence, and following protocols counters escalating aggression

Theory of Self-Care Deficits

• Dorothea Orem developed the theory of self-care deficits

Recognizing Delusions

• "I am being followed" are statements indicating delusions

Caring for Elderly Patients

• The aim when feeling symptoms of hopelessness, depression and loneliness is to protect from loneliness and giving the patient hope

Therapeutic Interventions for Schizophrenia

• Show acceptance, empathy, respect and being authentic with the patient in therapeutic intervention if social contract is withdrawn by patient

Nurse's Responsibilities

• A nurse caring for a patient should not not consider if the patient has proper insight into their own health situation if they are not on psychotropic medication

Neuroleptic Side Effects

• Compulsion to walk is akathisia and tazkinesia

Caring for Patients in a Depressive Catatonic Stupor

• Act on behalf of the patient to assist with feeding

Building Trust and Care for a patient with a mental disorder

• Show authenticity to inspire trust

Phototherapy indications

• Seasonal depression is the main indication

Sleep Disorders in Depressed Patients

• Characterized by lack of sleep or short sleep

Preventing Drug Hoarding

• Check that the patient has not stored medication in the cupboard

Patient Symptoms Indicate

• The patient being lethargic, sleep deprived indicates they have an affective disorder

Intellectual Capacity of 15-year-old with Mental Retardation

• A fifteen year old with mental retardation is important to bear in mind the mental age of the person as they are between 9-12 years of age

Caring for Elderly of Depression

• To arouse and strengthen the patient's sense of self-worth

Situations in ECW Care

• Experiencing anxiety and general anaesthesia

Admission of Tongue and Mandible

• These symptoms are indicative of late dyskinesias.

Patients at Risk Actions That Are Not Taken

• Periodically staying with the patient and avoiding talking about feelings related to suicide

Direct Coercion Powers

• Prolonging physical restraint for up to 4 hours in a social welfare unit is available for the nurse to action if cannot get obtain an order

Risk Factors for Aggression

• Anti-social personality is particularly associated with predisposition to aggressive behavior

Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms

• Excessive sleepiness is not a symptom of nicotine withdrawl

Consequence of Stigmatization

• Stigmatization leads to less societal status, exclusion, and discrimination.

Psychopathological Consequences of Drinking

• Lowered mood, irritability, and personality changes are common

Bleuer's Symptoms of Schizophrenia

• Ambivalence, autism, association, and affect are symptoms.

Hallucinations, Delusions

• Positive symptoms of schizophrenia

Current Disease Classifications

• ICD-11 (Europe) and DSM-V (USA)