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Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Exam 1
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Terms in this set (79)
A core mental health profession that employs a
purposeful use of self as its art and a wide range of
What is psychiatric mental
nursing, psychosocial, and neurobiological theories
health nursing and its main
and research evidence as its science. (ANA, 2007,
focus?
p.1). Its focus is the treatment of human responses to
mental health problems and psychiatric disorders.
Recovering from a mental Is to empower those with mental illness to find
illness is viewed as a personal meaning and satisfaction in their lives, realize
journey of healing. What is the personal potential, and function at their optimal
goal of recovery? level of independence.
nurse-patient relationship suggests an unequal
Describe the difference
status with the nurse/health care worker as the
between the nurse-patient
person in authority. The nurse-patient partnership is
relationship and the nurse-
more in line with the emphasis on "relationships" in
patient partnership:
the recovery model.
Caring is evidenced by empathic understanding,
actions, and patience on another's behalf. Caring for
In a survey on caring in 1998,
one another by actions, words, and being there
emerged 3 themes. Explain all
leads to happiness and touches the heart. Caring is
3:
giving of self while preserving the importance of
self.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Exam 1
, Someone who speaks up for another's cause, who
helps others by defending and comforting them,
What is a patient advocate?
especially when the other person lacks knowledge,
And what is not?
skills, ability, or status to speak for himself/herself. It
is NOT a legal role but rather an ethical one.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
What is the DSM-5?
Disorders. 5th addition was released in May 2013.
It is medical conditions that affect a person's
thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others,
What is mental illness?
and daily functioning. It includes flawed biological,
psychological, social, and cultural processes.
Euthymia A normal mood state.
A pattern of thinking that is haphazard, illogical, and
confused, and in which connections in thought are
Looseness of association
interrupted; it is seen primarily in schizophrenic
disorders.
Anorexia A medical term that signifies a loss of appetite.
A speech pattern characterized by forceful energy
manifested in frantic, jumbled speech as when a
Pressure of speech
manic individual struggles to keep pace with racing
thoughts.
Mimicry or imitation of the speech of another
Echolalia
person.
Understanding and awareness of the reasons for
Insight
and meaning behind one's motives and behavior.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Exam 1
Profi
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Exam 1
8 studiers in the last day
Terms in this set (79)
A core mental health profession that employs a
purposeful use of self as its art and a wide range of
What is psychiatric mental
nursing, psychosocial, and neurobiological theories
health nursing and its main
and research evidence as its science. (ANA, 2007,
focus?
p.1). Its focus is the treatment of human responses to
mental health problems and psychiatric disorders.
Recovering from a mental Is to empower those with mental illness to find
illness is viewed as a personal meaning and satisfaction in their lives, realize
journey of healing. What is the personal potential, and function at their optimal
goal of recovery? level of independence.
nurse-patient relationship suggests an unequal
Describe the difference
status with the nurse/health care worker as the
between the nurse-patient
person in authority. The nurse-patient partnership is
relationship and the nurse-
more in line with the emphasis on "relationships" in
patient partnership:
the recovery model.
Caring is evidenced by empathic understanding,
actions, and patience on another's behalf. Caring for
In a survey on caring in 1998,
one another by actions, words, and being there
emerged 3 themes. Explain all
leads to happiness and touches the heart. Caring is
3:
giving of self while preserving the importance of
self.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Exam 1
, Someone who speaks up for another's cause, who
helps others by defending and comforting them,
What is a patient advocate?
especially when the other person lacks knowledge,
And what is not?
skills, ability, or status to speak for himself/herself. It
is NOT a legal role but rather an ethical one.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
What is the DSM-5?
Disorders. 5th addition was released in May 2013.
It is medical conditions that affect a person's
thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others,
What is mental illness?
and daily functioning. It includes flawed biological,
psychological, social, and cultural processes.
Euthymia A normal mood state.
A pattern of thinking that is haphazard, illogical, and
confused, and in which connections in thought are
Looseness of association
interrupted; it is seen primarily in schizophrenic
disorders.
Anorexia A medical term that signifies a loss of appetite.
A speech pattern characterized by forceful energy
manifested in frantic, jumbled speech as when a
Pressure of speech
manic individual struggles to keep pace with racing
thoughts.
Mimicry or imitation of the speech of another
Echolalia
person.
Understanding and awareness of the reasons for
Insight
and meaning behind one's motives and behavior.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Exam 1
