Mental Health Nursing ( Chapter 1-4) Study Guide

Florence Nightingale - Assisted soldier in the Crimean war by reducing infections and death What did Florence Nightingale advocate? - Beliefs about the environment and cleanliness, lighting, diet, and recreation Dorothea Dix - schoolteacher turned reformer; she was a pioneer for humane treatment of the mentally ill. Linda Richards - America's first trained nurse What did Linda Richards do? - Opened Boston City Hospital Training School for Nurses Harriet Bailey - wrote first textbook on psychiatric nursing Effie Jane Taylor - initiated first psychiatric program of study for nurses Mary Mahoney - Considered to be America's first African American professional nurse Hildehard Peplau - Interpersonal relations in nursing, therapeutic nursing and relationships Hattie Bessent - developed and directed program for advancement of minority nurses into Masters and PhD levels of practice Facilites for trailblazers - Asylums Hospitals Free-standing facilities When was the breakthrough for Psychotrophic medications - Mid- 1950s Deinstitutionalization - Result of psychotrophic medications, reduced the patient population American Nurses Association (ANA) - Professional organization that represents all registered nurses. National League for Nurses(NLN) - organization for nurse educators, offers professional development, teaching resources, research grants, testing services Organizations specific to the licensed practical nurses - NFLPN & NAPNES Communication requires what? - Sender Message Receiver Types of communication? - Verbal, nonverbal, aggressive, assertive, social, therapeutic Therapeutic Communication is also called? - Active or Purposeful Neurolinguistics programming(NLP) - Method of framing statements(therapeutic) Humans connect in 3 ways, what are they? - Auditory-hearing visual-sight tactile-touch Communication challenges - Hearing impaired Visually impaired Language differences Aphasic/dysphasic Blocks to therapeutic communication - "Why?" minimize/belittling false reassurance/social Cliches Advising Closed-ended questions Agreeing/disagreeing Techniques of therapeutic communication - Clarify terms, reflecting, open-ended questions, Silence, Asking what you need, identifying thoughts and feelings Laryngectomy communication - Communication boards Visually impaired communication - Braille- prepared computers Hearing impaired communication - Sign language Dysphasic communication - objects, spelling boards, computers ellipsis Standards of care - Adopted by each level of nursing practice by its governing organizations Nurse Practice Act - law established to regulate nursing practice, each state has its own Most important for nurses when they are documenting is..? - Accuracy +honesty, they need to have both verbal and written communication skills When making an error on documentation, it is important for the nurse to? - Admit the error and report infractions or witness them Definition of culture of nurses - nonphysical traits, values, and traditions passed down over several generations, making professions