ATI MENTAL HEALTH FINAL STUDY QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS GUARANTEED PASS | RATED A+
What is assertive community treatment? (ACT) - Answer>>> Nontraditional case management
and treatment by interprofessional team for patients who have severe mental illness and are
noncompliant.
Community mental health centers: - Answer>>> Provide educational groups, medication
dispensing programs, individual counseling programs.
Psychosocial rehabilitation programs" - Answer>>> Residential services, day programs for older
adults
What are the nurse tasks involved in the orientation phase? - Answer>>> Introduce self and state
purpose.
Set contract of relationship.
Discuss confidentiality.
Build trust.
Set goals.
Explore patient's ideas, issues, and needs.
Explore meaning of testing behaviors.
Enforce limits on testing or other inappropriate behaviors.
What are the nurse tasks involved in the working phase? - Answer>>> Maintain relationship
according to contract.
Perform ongoing assessment to plan and evaluate therapeutic measures.
Facilitate client's expression of needs and issues.
Encourage patient to problem self.
Promote patient's self esteem.
Foster positive behavioral change.
Explore and deal with resistance and other defense mechanisms that the patient has developed.
Support adaptive alternatives and use of new coping skills.
Remind about date and time of termination.
What are the nurse tasks involved in the termination phase? - Answer>>> Provide opportunity
for patient to discuss thoughts about feelings of termination and loss.
Discuss patient's previous experiences with separation and loss.
Elicit client's feelings about therapeutic work in the nurse-patient relationship.