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✔✔Mania - ✔✔abnormal and persistent elevated mood, expansive mood, and/or
irritable mood
✔✔mood lability - ✔✔rapid shifts in mood with little to no change in external events
✔✔Special Considerations - ✔✔Dx can be hampered because Sx may be mistaken for
something else, often missed in elderly and medically ill because of manifestations like
memory loss and confusion
✔✔Caring Theory - ✔✔value the individual, understanding, nurturing, support, caring
presence of nurse
✔✔Self-care deficit theory - ✔✔Orem: assist client in meeting self care needs while
allowing them to do all that they can themselves; as client becomes more capable,
nurse has more supportive/educative role
✔✔Behavior management - ✔✔set achievable goals that don't frustrate client,
remember to reward successes, limit setting and choose battles wisely, redirect instead
of setting limits, use cognitive skills to gain client's assistance
, ✔✔Well toolbox - ✔✔relapse prevention; coping strategies, awareness of potential
problem areas, early warning signs, plan, medication understanding and collaboration
on plan for use
✔✔Types of Anorexia - ✔✔restricting, binge eating/purging
✔✔Bulimia - ✔✔binge eating, compensatory behavior to prevent weight gain, self-
esteem related to body weight, body weight is WNL, type is based on number of
episodes per week
✔✔Binge Eating - ✔✔no purging, no excessive exercise, compulsive overeating
✔✔Pica - ✔✔Persistent eating of non-nutritive substances (clay, paint, plaster)
✔✔Pharmacologic management - ✔✔fluoxetine (prozac)
✔✔0-18 months - ✔✔trust v mistrust
✔✔18 months - 3 yrs - ✔✔autonomy v shame/doubt (self-control/independence)
✔✔3 - 6 yrs - ✔✔initiative v guilt (initiate and direct own activities like choosing a game)
✔✔6 - 12 yrs - ✔✔industry v inferiority (self confidence thru successful performance and
recognition)
✔✔12 - 20 yrs - ✔✔identity v role confusion
✔✔ACE Pyramid - ✔✔ACE -> Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Impairment -> Adoption
of Health-risk Behaviors -> disease, disability, and social problems - > early death
✔✔Resilience - ✔✔the ability to reduce the impact of psychological trauma and
enhance the ability to recover from stressful situations
✔✔How do you get Resiliency? - ✔✔healthy relationships, take care of body and mind,
find purpose, engage in healthy thinking
✔✔Emotional Intelligence - ✔✔the ability to identify emotions in yourself and others in
order to guide thinking and behavior
✔✔Parts of emotional intelligence - ✔✔social skills, self awareness, self regulation,
motivation, empathy