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Unit 2 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing.
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Unit 2 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing.
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Unit 2 Psychiatric Mental Health NursingNurses need... - ANS-Self-awareness
Introspection
Nurses need... Self-awareness - ANS-ability to look at oneself; examine one's own
attitudes, beliefs, behaviors
Nurses need...Introspection - ANS-expands nurse's ability to understand the feelings
and behaviors of client's with a variety of clinical symptoms
Mental Health - ANS-positive state, person is responsible, displays self-awareness, is
self-directed, can cope with daily tension and crises, can function well in society, fulfills
one's capacity for love and work, can become independent, interdependent, or
dependent, functions within one's own cultural or ehnic group
Factors Affecting Mental Health - ANS-inherited characteristics
nurturing during childhood
life circumstances
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ANS-Physiologic - food, water
Security&Safety - shelter
Love - must be expressed
Self-Esteem - self acceptance, how you and others think you are seen
Self-Actualization - how you learn, growth
Psychological Adaptation to Stress - Peplau - ANS-Anxiety
1. alarm, resistance, exhaustion
2. mild, moderate, severe, panic
3. use of defense mechanisms to adapt to stress
NURSES NEED TO RECOGNIZE SYMPTOMS TO PLAN INTERVENTION.
Mild Anxiety - ANS-Everyday life
Moderate Anxiety - ANS-Being pulled over by a state trooper
Severe Anxiety - ANS-Physical Symptoms start to show
, Panic Anxiety - ANS-Most intense. Unable to focus on even one specific detail. Pt can
have delusions, wild behavior, withdrawal, hallucinations, illness, feel like their going
crazy.
Physiological Disorders - ANS-Moderate and Severe Anxiety can lead to...
Psychoneurotic patterns of behaving - ANS-Extended Periods of moderate and severe
anxiety can cause...
Psychotic Behavior - ANS-Extended periods of panic anxiety can lead too...
What are psychoses? - ANS-Serious psychiatric disorders causing delusions,
hallucinations, impairment of functions, relationship problems
Defense Mechanisms - ANS-Compensation
Denial
Displacement
Identification
Intellectualization
Introjection
Isolation
Projection
Rationalization
Reaction Formation
Regression
Repression
Sublimation
Suppression
Undoing
Denial - ANS-Refusing to acknowledge the existence of a real situation or the feelings
associated with it.
Reaction Formation - ANS-Preventing unacceptable or undesirable thoughts or
behaviors from being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of
behaviors
Regression - ANS-Responding to stress by retreating to an earlier level of se elopement
my the comfort measures associated with that level of functioning
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