Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

NSG 221 HESI Final Exam - Questions and Answers Countertransference Countertransference occurs when the therapist displaces onto the client attitudes or feelings from his or her past. For example, a female nurse who has teenage children and who is experiencing extreme frustration with an adolescent client may respond by adopting a parental or chastising tone. The nurse is countertransfering her own attitudes and feelings toward her children onto the client. Nurses can deal with countertransfer...

NSG 221 Exam 4 - Questions and Answers Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of preoccupation with perfectionism, mental and interpersonal control, and orderliness at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency. Clients are preoccupied with orderliness and try to maintain it in all areas of life. They strive for perfection as though it were attainable and are preoccupied with details, rules, lists, a...

NSG 221 Exam 3 - Questions and Answers Kindling Definition A process by which seizure activity in the brain is initially stimulated by the cumulative effects of stress, low amounts of electrical impulses, or chemicals that sensitize the neuronal pathways Clients taking MAOIs and who eat foods containing tyramine risk experiencing a BLANK, which is potentially fatal BLANK: hypertensive crisis An individual experiencing mania can exhibit rapidly changing emotions, also known as: Liable What is t...

NSG 221 Exam 2 - Questions and Answers Mourning Rituals Mourning is the outward expression of grief. Rituals of mourning include having a wake, sitting shiva, holding religious ceremonies, and arranging funerals. Physiologic Loss Examples include amputation of a limb, a mastectomy or hysterectomy, or loss of mobility. Safety Loss Loss of a safe environment is evident in domestic violence, child abuse, or public violence. A person's home should be a safe haven with trust that family members ...

NSG 221 Exam 1 - Questions and Answers Psychotherapy Groups The goal of a psychotherapy group is for members to learn about their behavior and to make positive changes in their behavior by interacting and communicating with others as a member of a group. Groups may be organized around a specific medical diagnosis, such as depression, or a particular issue Mental Health Definition Mental health: a state of emotional, psychological, and social wellness evidenced by satisfying interpersonal relat...

ANALYTIC EPIDEMIOLOGY - METHOD THAT INVESTIGATES THE CAUSES OF DISEASE BY DETERMINING WHY A DISEASE RATE IS LOWER IN ONE POPULATION GROUP THAN IN ANOTHER DESCRIPTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY - A FORM OF EPIDEMIOLOGY THAT DESCRIBES A DISEASE ACCORDING TO ITS PERSON, PLACE OR TIME WEB OF CAUSATION - A MODEL THAT CAN BE USED TO ILLUSTRATE COMPLEX INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF FACTORS INTERACTING WITH EACH OTHER TO INFLUENCE THE RISK FO, OR DISTRIBUTION OF, HEALTH OUTCOMES SCREENING PROGRAMS - A SECONDARY PREVEN...

What is community-based nursing? - Nursing care directed toward a specific group or population within the community and may be provided for individuals and groups. setting-specific emphasis on acute and chronic care What is primary prevention? - preventing a problem before it occurs by altering susceptibility or reducing exposure for susceptible individuals What is general health promotion in primary prevention? - enhances resiliency and protective factors and target essentially well popu...

Analytic Epidemiology - method that investigates the causes of disease by determining why a disease rate is lower in one population group than in another Descriptive Epidemiology - a form of epidemiology that describes a disease according to its person, place, or time Web of Causation - a model that can be used to illustrate complex interrelationships of factors interacting with each other to influence the risk for, or distribution of, health outcomes Screening Programs - a secondary preve...