Mental Health Flashcards
(63 cards)
What is section 8 of the Mental Health Act?
Application for assessment.
What is section 10 of the Mental Health Act?
Assessment by a psychiatrist.
What is section 11 of the Mental Health Act?
Involves further assessment and treatment for 5 days. Is either at patient’s place of residence or detained at the hospital.
What is section 13 of the Mental Health Act?
Further assessment and treatment for 14 days.
What is section 29 of the Mental Health Act?
Compulsory treatment in the community.
What is section 14 of the Mental Health Act?
Application for compulsory treatment order.
What is section 30 of the Mental Health Act?
Requires the patient to be detained in a specific hospital and accept treatment.
What is section 111 of the Mental Health Act?
Describes the power of the nurse where urgent assessment is required.
Can be applied to any person admitted to hospital that isn’t already under the act, and the nurse believes may be mentally disordered.
What is Schizophrenia?
A mental disorder characterised by abnormal social behaviour and failure to understand what is real.
What is anorexia?
A refusal to maintain a healthy body weight and intense fear of gaining weight, a disordered body image.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Manic-depressive illness - causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs and lows.
What are some symptoms of depression?
Persistent low mood, low self esteem, fatigue, feeling worthless, recurrent thoughts of suicide, insomnia, hypersomnia
Mental State Examination
Appearance, Attitude, Behaviour, Mood and Affect, Speech, Thought Process
Parkinsonism has several characteristic symptoms. When assessing a client with this disease, the nurse may observe:
A) Normal Speech
B) Facial Tremor
C) Shuffling Gait
D) Fast Body Movement
C) Shuffling Gait
Senile dementia alzheimers type is?
A) Primarily a disease of the brain itself
B) Primarily a disease of the blood vessels supplying the brain
C) Has focal neurological symptoms like hemiparesis and dysphagia
D) Has a rapid progression and death within weeks of onset
A) Primarily a disease of the brain itself.
Power of attorney means the person can?
A) Alter a clients will
B) Delegate the clients legal matters to someone else
C) Act on the clients behalf
D) Be liable for the clients debts
C) Act on the clients behalf.
A persons brain who had died of alzheimers would look like?
A) Swelling of the brain and sunken ventricles
B) Diffuse cerebral atrophy with enlargement of the ventricles and sulci
C) Extra ventricles
B) Diffuse cerebral atrophy with enlargement of the ventricles and sulci.
What does the term ‘self medication’ refer to?
Improving psychological distress through substance abuse (drugs or alcohol).
The progression of delirium can be described as:
A) A slow reduction in mental and physical functioning
B) Poor short term memory and confabulation with ongoing deterioration
C) The acute onset of symptoms with rapid improvement on treatment
D) The acute onset of symptoms with gradual improvement over a long period of time
C) The acute onset of symptoms with gradual improvement on treatment.
When an individual with multiple cognitive disabilities has extraordinary proficiency in one isolated skill, this is known as which of the below?
A) Rainman Syndrome
B) Asperger Ability
C) Intellectual Isolation
D) Savant Syndrome
D) Savant Syndrome
What is the COWS scale?
Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (rates substance withdrawal symptoms)
Commonly used drug to stabilise mood?
Lithium - mainly used for Bipolar Disorder.
What are benzodiazepines used for?
Anxiety relief, sedation, muscle relaxation, suppression of convulsions (seizures), alcohol withdrawal.
Harm minimisation strategy (substance and alcohol)
Supply control - restriction of availability
Demand reduction - decrease desire to use drugs
Problem limitation - reduce harm
