SPRING 2024 NURS 1260 MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PROCTORED EXAM #2 – STUDY GUIDE
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SPRING 2024 NURS 1260 MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PROCTORED EXAM #2 – STUDY GUIDE
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SPRING 2024 NURS 1260 MENTAL HEALTH
NURSINGPROCTORED EXAM #2 – STUDY GUIDE
Note: The Mental Health Nursing exams are continually cumulative throughout the semester. Just as we do
with the Pharm exams. The intention of the review sheet is to guide your studying efforts. This list is not all
inclusive or exclusive of the material on the test.
Chapter 1 Mental Health and Mental Illness
➢ Cultural, Ethnic, and Religious Influences
o Cultural Heritage-Beliefs, Norms, and Values
-Culture is a term that describes a common heritage and a set of beliefs, norms, values and behaviors
that are unique to each.
-Cultural identity: binding forces between members of each group.
➢ Factors that Affect Mental Health
o Stress and Anxiety
▪ Coping with Stress and Anxiety
Adaptive: Uses a rational and productive way of resolving a problem to reduce anxiety
Palliative: Temporarily relieves the anxiety but the problem still exists and needs to be dealt
with again later.
Maladaptive: Unsuccessful attempts are made to decrease the anxiety without attempting to
solve the problem.
Dysfunctional: Does not attempt to reduce the anxiety or solve the problem
o Grief and Loss
▪ Grief as a Process
-Grief is experienced in response to the anticipation of or result of a loss.
▪ Stages of Grief
-Denial
-Anger
-Bargaining
-Depression
-Acceptance
▪ Dysfunctional Grief
-Failure to complete the grieving process and cope successfully with a loss
▪ Coping with Grief and Loss
-Patients with prolonged bereavement need to receive clinical attention and treatment.
-Interventions that assist individuals with the grieving process should encourage openness and
honesty about their feelings.
Chapter 2 The Delivery of Mental Health Care
➢ Historical Advancement of Mental Health Care
o The Beginning of Change
-Benjamin Rush advocated for change in conditions for individuals with mental illness
➢ Access to Care: Cultural Disparities
o Barriers to Seeking Care
-Lower socioeconomic status
-Lower educational levels
-Limited income
-Racial and Cultural Bias
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-Minority groups
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Cultural Unpreparedness Within the System
-Cultural incompetence among mental health providers and professionals is perhaps the single most
pivotal barrier to equality in the delivery of mental health care.
o Cost of Care
-Mental health parity and addiction equity act of 2008
-Patient protection and affordable care act
➢ Legal and Ethical Considerations in Mental Health Care
o Client Rights
▪ Informed Consent
-Patient grants permission to undergo a specific treatment or procedure after being informed
about the procedure, risk, and benefits.
▪ Confidentiality
-Refers to the clients right to prevent written or verbal communications from being disclosed to
outside parties without authorization.
o Use of Seclusion and Restraints
▪ Seclusion and Restraint
-Seclusion: Placement of a patient in a controlled environment to treat a clinical emergency in
which the patient poses an immediate threat to themselves or others.
-Physical Restraints: Use of mechanical devices to provide limited movement by the patient.
Used to prevent harm to self and others and require careful monitoring.
-Chemical Restraints: Medications used to calm a patient and prevent the need for physical
restraints. Chemical restraints are less restrictive and is generally the initial choice unless the
situation warrants otherwise.
➢ Practice Settings for Mental Health Care
o Inpatient Psychiatric Settings
-Voluntary Commitment: Patient is admitted based on their willingness to comply with the treatment
program.
-Involuntary Commitment: Patient is admitted to a psychiatric unit against his or her will.
o Outpatient Mental Health Settings
-Individual Therapy
-Marriage and Family Therapy
-Child and Adolescent Therapy
-Divorce Therapy
-Group Therapy
-Psychological Evaluation
-Stress Reduction
-Assessment for mental disorder
-Grief and Loss Support
-Addictive behaviors and codependency therapy
-Parenting therapy
➢ Box 2.1
Chapter 3 Theories of Personality Development
➢ Personality
o Individual Needs and Behavior
-Basic physiological needs
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