NURS 265 EXAM-Questions with Correct Answers/ Verified/ latest
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What is Mental Health Continuum? - ✔✔how someone is functioning in a point in time. One
can be adequate to high level of functioning in daily life to at the end point of severe mental
illness. Ranges from low to high
High level Mental Health Continuum? - ✔✔· occasional stress to mild distress, no
impairment, knows that there not okay and can recover with coping mechanisms.
Low level Mental Health Continuum?
(mental illness) - ✔✔· marked distress, moderate to disabling or chronic impairment. EX:
altered thinking, mood, and behavior, common disorders such as depression and anxiety,
and schizophrenia
MIddle level Mental Health Continuum? (emotional problems or concerns) - ✔✔· mild to
moderate distress, and mild or temporary impairment. EX: insomnia, lack of concentration,
loss of appetite.
Individual Attributes (biological and genetics): - ✔✔: Biological such as prenatal exposure to
alcohol & O2 deprivation at birth are biological factor. Genetic factors are huge predictors of
mental health.
Resilience: - ✔✔the ability and capacity for people to secure resources needed for well-
being. Does not mean they are unaffected by stress.
Social and Economic: - ✔✔Family, peer groups, school-promote confidence, coping skills,
inadequacy, instilling anxiety.
Environmental: - ✔✔Culture- different views on mental illness, social and economic policies,
political environment & culture consideration
Diathesis-Stress Model: - ✔✔both diathesis and stress are present for the disorder. (Nature
vs. nurture)
, What represents biological predisposition (genetics) - ✔✔Diathesis
What represents environmental stress or trauma (triggers the disorder)? - ✔✔Stress
Patient rights Legislation - ✔✔Parity = equivalence
Mental health parity: - ✔✔required insurers that provide mental health coverage to offer
annual and lifetime benefits at the same level provided for medical/surgical coverage for
insurers who employ 50 or more employees.
Affordable care act: - ✔✔- improve coverage for most Americans who are uninsured
through a combination of expanded Medicaid and health insurance exchanges.
What are some components of the Affordable care act? - ✔✔$Medical HX cannot result in
denials, or "pre-existing condition"
$ No lifetime or annual dollar limit
Available to many who previously have been uninsured
§ Prescription's coverage
§ Cover preventative care at no cost to the patient
§ Young adults to remain on parents' health care plan until the age of 26
Mental Health Nursing - ✔✔promoting mental health through assessment, diagnosis, and
treatment of human responses to mental health problems and psychiatric disorders. Pain
scale is there depression scale
QSEN (quality and safety education for nurses): - ✔✔improve the safety and quality of
healthcare.
- Provide patient -centered care
- Work in interdisciplinary teams
- Employ evidence-based practice
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