Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Overviews of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS). ECT includes the indications, contraindications, medications used during the procedure, side effects, nursing care and patient teaching. For VNS, we cover the indications, side effects, and patient teaching.

Overviews of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS).

Introduction to therapies for mental health disorders. Relaxation techniques, including progressive relaxation, biofeedback, guided imagery, and meditation. The concept of milieu therapy, along with the purpose and phases of group therapy. A variety of behavioral therapies, including operant conditioning, modeling, aversion therapy, systematic desensitization, and flooding.

Learn all about the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of mental health disorders in the community.

Content warning: Sexual assault and suicide. This video covers key nursing knowledge about sexual assault victims and suicidal patients. The labs, treatment, and nursing care for victims of sexual assault. The 3 phases of rape-trauma syndrome: acute, outward adjustment, and resolution. The risk factors and protective factors associated with suicide, along with the signs of impending suicide. Finally, treatment options and nursing care of suicidal patients.

In this video, we continue our coverage of abuse: signs of physical, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect. Important nursing care interventions for abuse situations.

Learn about violence and aggression: predictors of violence, deescalation techniques, and interventions for violent behavior. Overview of abuse: abuse types (physical, emotional, sexual, neglect, and economic abuse), followed by the cycle of abuse/violence and perpetrator and victim risk factors

Defense mechanisms, including: avoidance, compensation, conversion, denial, displacement, dissociation, identification, intellectualization, projection, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression, splitting, sublimation, suppression, and undoing. Includes a video quiz!

The types of crises (maturational, situational, adventitious) and nursing care of patients during a crisis. The difference between an actual loss vs. a perceived loss. The stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) and types of grief (complicated, anticipatory, and disenfranchised grief). Includes a video quiz!

The stages of General Adaptation Syndrome: alarm reaction stage, resistance stage, and exhaustion stage. The characteristics and symptoms of mild, moderate, severe, and panic-level anxiety. The nursing care of patients with anxiety. Includes a video quiz!

The key components of a mental status examination: Appearance, Behavior, Motor Activity, Speech, Mood/Affect, Thought Process/Content, Perception, Cognition, Insight, and Judgement. Includes a video quiz!

Phases of the Nurse/Client Relationship (pre-orientation, orientation, working, termination), the concepts of transference and countertransference. Therapeutic communication techniques and non-therapeutic communication techniques.

Intentional torts, including: assault, battery, false imprisonment, invasion of privacy, and defamation of character. Unintentional torts, including negligence and malpractice. Restraints and seclusion, include indications for restraints, types of restraints, nursing care related to restraints, order requirements, and documentation requirements related to restraints.

Learn about Informed Consent, including the provider's and nurse's responsibilities with Informed Consent. Who IS and ISN'T competent to provide informed consent. A review of nursing ethical principles, including: autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, fidelity, advocacy, and veracity.

An introduction to our Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing video series. Learn PMH principles, starting with types of admissions/commitments (voluntary admission, involuntary commitment, emergency commitment) and patient rights (patient confidentiality, right to refuse treatment, right to least restrictive environment).