Unit 2 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing – Complete Study Guide, Practice Questions & Exam Review

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Unit 2 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
Nurses 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




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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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