Exam 6 Psychiatric Mental Health NP Flashcards
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What nursing skill did the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) initiative seek to improve?
Computer and information literacy
The Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) initiative developed
a 10-year plan for nursing’s path toward computer and information literacy. It involved more than 1,100 nursing content experts, and it took three years to complete. This initiative successfully defined the basic technology competencies and required curriculum for nurse practitioner education.
The TIGER initiative declared that it is a nurse practitioner’s responsibility to
understand and shape the landscape of health care technology in order to improve access, quality, and the patient experience.
Core symptoms of major depressive disorders in children are
irritability, somatic complaints, and social withdrawal.
Less common symptoms of major depressive disorders in children include
psychosis, motor retardation, hypersomnia, and increased appetite
To assess a patient’s potential to harm others in addition to themselves, nurse practitioners should ask the following questions:
Are there others who you think may be responsible for what you are experiencing?
Are you having thoughts of harming others? Who?
Are there other people you want to die with you?
Are there others who you think would be unable to go on without you?
For patients who present with thoughts about wanting to harm themselves, nurse practitioners could consider asking:
How close have you come to acting on those thoughts?
How likely do you think it is that you will act on them in the future?
What do you envision happening if you actually killed yourself?
Have you made a specific plan to harm yourself?
Are guns or other weapons available to you?
Have you made particular preparations for your death?
When clients are involuntarily admitted to an inpatient psychiatric facility,
they are admitted against their will, they are unable to come and go as they please, and the amount of time they can be kept against their wishes varies by state. These are examples of civil liberties that are withdrawn during the involuntary admission process.
If a client is voluntarily admitted to an inpatient psychiatric facility, they desire and agree to treatment and confinement within the structure of a hospital setting. The client maintains
all civil liberties, and they are able to leave as they please as long as they are not a danger to themselves or others or gravely disabled.
Clients are able to make phone calls, have visitors, and refuse medication. These civil liberties are maintained
even when admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit involuntarily.
Prozac (fluoxetine) is an SSRI antidepressant and can produce a false positive for
methamphetamine.
Zoloft (sertraline) can produce a false positive for
benzodiazepines
Motrin can produce a false positive for
cocaine
Poppy seeds can produce a false positive
for heroin or morphine
Pharmacokinetics refers to
what the body does to a drug when it’s ingested.
Pharmacodynamics is the term that describes
what a drug does to the body when ingested and paired with the individual’s pharmacodynamic gene profile.
Norepinephrine:
alertness, focused attention, learning, and memory
Dopamine
_thinking, fine muscle action, and reward-seeking behavior
GABA_
reduces arousal, aggression, and anxiety
Serotonin
regulates sleep, pain, mood states, and temperature
Nurse practitioner core competencies include the following:
Scientific foundations Leadership Quality Practice inquiry Technology and information literacy Policy Health delivery systems Ethics Independent practice
What court case determined that the presence of a mental illness alone cannot justify involuntary hospitalization?
O’Connor vs. Donaldson
The 1976 case O’Connor vs. Donaldson ruled that
harmless mentally ill patients cannot be confined against their will if they can survive outside. This case determined that the presence of a mental illness alone cannot justify involuntary hospitalization.
In 1979, Rennie vs. Klein determined that
patients have the right to refuse any treatment and use an appeal process.