Mental Exam 1
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- Healthy boundary
- When there is Neutral Space
- Grandiose
- Saying something your not; Im married to George Bush
- Neologisms
- invented words
- Circumstantial
- excessive detail, pt gives to much detail before finishing what needs to be said
- Empathy
- That one understands the ideas expressed as well as feelings that are present in the other person
- Remote Memory
- Events, info, people from the distant past
- Ideas of reference
- Events refer to self; Pt thinks tv is talking to them
- Transference
- Nurse reminds pt of someone from their past
- Unhealthy boundary
- When there is no Personal or neutral space
- Delusion
- A set of fixed thoughts
- Boundaries
- Defines who we are and who we not are
- Command Hallucinations
- A voice telling the pt to do something
- Tarasoft Act
- If you know someone who has threatend another you must tell on them
- Non-compliance
- Pt is not cooperative with treatment
- The purpose of a Mental Status Exam
- Detect changes or abnormalities in a person
- Termination
- Summarize relationship with pt, say good bye, must terminate relation.
- Flight of ideas
- rapid movement from one topic to another "manic pt"
- Tangential
- going of in tangents
- Non-circumstantial
- Pt never gets to what they are trying to say
- Pre-interaction
- Before meeting pt, examine own feelings, gather data
- Labile
- Pt goes from one state to another ex. Happy than crying
- Recent Memory
- Events, info, people of the past week
- Orientation
- Introduce self and become acquainted to pt
- Blame placing
- Laying the blame on someone else
- Immediate Memory
- Recall info to which a pt was just expossed
- Counter-transference
- Pt reminds nurse of someone from their past
- Obsession
- Repetitive thoughts, Pt's family member dies and cant sleep due to the thought of it
- NANDA - Dillusions
- Disturbed thought process r/t
- NANDA - Hallucinations
- Disturbed sensory perceptions r/t
- Hypochondriasis
- Over concern with bodys functions
- Working
- Plan of care is implemented and evaluated, nurse and pt work together
- Depersonalization
- Feeling something has changed
- Genuineness
- Self awareness of ones own feelings as they arise within a relationship
- illusions
- False presceptions of an actual stimulus
- Loose associations
- no connection b/t thoughts
- Relationship Therapy
- The relationship between a nurse and a patient