Mental Health: Understanding Symptoms and Risks

This content provides an overview of mental health, including symptoms and risks. It discusses the appearance, behavior, mood, affect, speech, thought form, thought content, perception, cognition, insight, and judgment of individuals with mental health issues. It also explores the risks of self-harm, harm to reputation, non-compliance with medication, and further deterioration of mental state. The content includes a nursing plan, potential nursing diagnoses, interventions, and patient education. References to relevant books and journals are provided.

Mental health

Contents
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Activity 1.........................................................................................................................................3
Activity 2.........................................................................................................................................4
Activity 3.........................................................................................................................................5
Activity 4.........................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

MAIN BODY
Activity 1
• Appearance
As per the video, the patients are considered to be age of 45 years having the healthy structure.
As per the consideration of the physicals characterise, she has the wearing spec or glasses. She
has the body built which is large. She has the hair tie up on knot on her head. She was wearing a
whit shirt which was not button well with brown straight office skirt. She was well groomed but
nit in mannered way Townsend, M. C., & Morgan, K. I. (2017).
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• Behaviour
As per the behaviour is concerned, she was seated have major avoiding of contacts of eyes. She
was more level of restlessness and agitation in her behaviour as she was little confused and
scratching her head.
• Mood
The client was little confusing as the emotional stage is considered to be high level of anxious
regarding her new long Christmas dress to wear in white snow England festival nights.
• Affect
As in the interview, the patients are randomly changing the behaviours as some question she
was totals blank as the term who she was. In continuous to that her behaviour totals change when
she was to go magistrates to ask her to giver money to buy new Christmas ever dressy.
• Speech
There was high level of variation in her tone and speech as at some moments to time it is totals
dim, blunted. On other she considers to be liable and flats I totals level of discussion.
• Thought form
The types of thought she was producing is considered to be totally illogical as she has over
concern to be fit in the clothes and the want of new clothes to attend the new Christmas eve.
• Thought content
As per the content, she was not stable, she wants to talk to the governor general to have the
wants of money in order to have new dress for the Christmas eve Slade, M., Oades, L., & Jarden,
A. (Eds.). (2017). Next to that she doesn’t have the idea for the cheese suddenly ansible in super
market. Then she have conserved herself as the upcoming authority of the thrones and want to
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tall prince Charles for further responsibility. She have the clear obsessional ideas which don have
the i=any idea to reality and father perception and development.
• Perception
She has the different kinds of hallucination which is in term of the visuals and olfactory term.
She considered herself as the belonging of royal’s family and looks similar like the queen. she
have considered herself as the one who should be accepted my royal family.
• Cognition:
memory (short-term and long-term),
the memory was clear as it working in the library where she used to work before medication. On
the other hand, she has the clear resemblances where she capsules have the live along with parent
living in Queensland,
concentration
she has the clear level of concentration regrading where date time and address in effective way.
this have inclusion of reals life and parent address. The working in library.
orientation to time, place & person.
On the other hand, she has the clear resemblances where she capsules have the live along with
parent living in Queensland.
• Insight
The patents have the clear suffering as she is able to have the understanding regarding the
various concept which is considered to be necessary to have the better treatment.
• Judgement
She is not able to have the ability to make sensible decision making regarding to have the proper
understanding in relation to behaviour Agic, B., 2016. As the judgement are socially appropriate
as she can even go to the royal family with a appointments in order to have the Christmas
evening dress in perfect manner.
Activity 2
• Risk of harm to self
This is the situation which is been the risk witnessed by the marine as she can have the par of
mental issues which are more likely to harm themselves which can be considered as highly self-
critical along with being poor problems solvers. This can have major conditioner over having
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more life issues as they were neglected are more level of sexually or emotionally abused have the
experiences traumatic events.
• Risk of harm to reputation
As the risk o harm reputation have the proper evaluating of the risk in which patents had the
feeling of major danger in term of damaging the social image in the society. In addition to that
they have fear that’s there private talks that’s they are discussing to be health staff will be liked
outside which will be major issue of concern.
• Risk of non-compliance with meds
This is considered to be high level of risk of non-compliances where patients have existences
who don’t have the full understanding regarding how medications will be helpful improving their
heath . they have the opposed who are familiar with the mechanism of action of the drug and can
visualize the long-term effects of compliance Zeanah, C. H. (Ed.). (2018). It is essential that
patients understand how a treatment regimen will impact their disease
• Risk of further deterioration of mental state
There rea various caused which have the cause of detorsions of mental health which have the
clear consideration of the Bad wiring of the human mind usually leads an individual to harbour
misconceived notions, prejudices, half-truths, false interpretations & negative beliefs
Activity 3
Plan
Assessments
 Assess for hallucinations, mental status, dementia, bipolar disorder (initially and
throughout therapy).
• Obtain complete health history, especially psychological, neurologic and blood diseases:
including blood studies: CBC, WBC with differential, electrolytes, BUN, creatinine, liver
enzymes.
Potential nursing diagnosis
Anxiety, related to disease process
• Risk for Injury, related to effects of drug
• Noncompliance, related to side effects of drug
• Disturbed Sleep Pattern, related to drug effect
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Interventions and (Rationales)
*Monitor RBC and WBC counts. If WBC levels drop < 3500, medication will need to be stopped
immediately. (Patient may be developing agranulocytosis, which could be life-threatening.)
*Monitor for hematologic side effects. (Neutropenia, leukopenia, agranulocytosis,
thrombocytopenia may occur, secondary to possible bone marrow suppression caused by
clozapine.)
Observe for side effects such as drowsiness, sedation, dizziness, depression, anxiety, tachycardia,
hypotension, nausea/vomiting, excessive salivation, urinary frequency or urgency, incontinence,
weight gain, muscle pain or weakness, rash, fever.
Patient Education and Discharge Planning
Advise the patients of having the importance weekly lab studies.
Instruction patients to have report immediately with the throat, signs of infections, fatigues with
apparent cause.
Instruct patient to report side effects to the health care provider.
Activity 4
As the positive impacts of the nurse and patient interaction the positive aspect as –
This have the clear implication which will be helpful in there
Orientations- this will be helpful in seeking help for patients along with nurse to have the proper
assistances for in order to have the identification od issue in respective term Segal, D. L., Qualls,
S. H., & Smyer, M. A. (2018).
Identification- in addition to that there is the patients which have the relation to the nurse form
the level of independences along with interdepend postures along with having the nurse in more
way as they have the proper understanding of the different behaviour and situation.
Exploitation- the patients have the use the name of nurses along with other to have their
acceptance of basic needs.
Resolution the next is about their patient’s old needs along with getting resolved and more
attesting of the mature goal in perfect manner.
Termination his is about the process of evaluations the process of basic interventions towards
having the intended goals which have the proper requirement of times in order to end the level
of relationship.
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On the other hand, the negative impact can be due to bad nurses in which the patients which
have the major assurances regarding the ongoing level of interest of the patient’s needs. There
are proper assessments of the risk
As the patient is feeling the level of uneasiness which have impacted changing the behaviours as
some question, she was totals blank as the term who she was. In continuous to that her behaviour
totals change when she was to go magistrates to ask her to give money to buy new Christmas
ever dressy.
As there is more level of risk assisted which can be such as they have the opposed who are
familiar with the mechanism of action of the drug and can visualize the long-term effects of
compliance. It is essential that patients understand how a treatment regimen will impact their
disease
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Online
Segal, D. L., Qualls, S. H., & Smyer, M. A. (2018). Aging and mental health. John Wiley &
Sons.
Zeanah, C. H. (Ed.). (2018). Handbook of infant mental health. Guilford Publications.
Agic, B., 2016. Mental health of Canada’s immigrants. Powerpoint presentation.
Slade, M., Oades, L., & Jarden, A. (Eds.). (2017). Wellbeing, recovery and mental health.
Cambridge University Press.
Townsend, M.C. and Morgan, K.I., 2017. Psychiatric mental health nursing: Concepts of care in
evidence-based practice. FA Davis.
Townsend, M. C., & Morgan, K. I. (2017). Psychiatric mental health nursing: Concepts of care
in evidence-based practice. FA Davis.
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