PNUR-203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Structural Abuse, Mental Status Examination, Surrogate Decision-Maker
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Week 6 learning outcomes: define mental health, mental illness, and mental status, mental health = includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. Impact of the societal abuse on affected individual: discuss voluntary, informal, and involuntary admissions under mental health act, voluntary, voluntary patient is not defined in the mental health act. Pnur 203: as a voluntary patient, you have chosen to be under the care, observation, and treatment of a psychiatric facility. If you leave without permission, the doctor can have you returned to the hospital by the police. Informal: you are an informal patient if you have been admitted to a psychiatric facility on the consent of another person in order to get treatment, the person who has consented to your admission is your substitute decision-maker.
