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Basic Concept In Psychiatric Nursing Flashcards

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What are the characteristics of mentally healthy person ?

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  • Attitude towards individual self
  • Growth, development and self actualization
  • integrative capacity
  • autonomous behavior
  • perception of reality
  • environmental mastery
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A state of well being in which a person is able to cope with the normal stresses of daily life and his ability to realize his potential.

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Mental Health

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A state of imbalance characterized by a disturbance in a persons thought, feelings, and behavior

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Mental ill health

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Major factor that increase mental illness at home

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Abuse and poverty

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Interpersonal process whereby the professional nurse practitioner through the therapeutic use of self, assist an individual family group of community to promote mental health

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Psychiatric nursing

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What is the core of psychiatric nursing?

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Human to human relationship

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Who are the clients of the nurse in psychiatric setting?

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Individual family and community

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It is the science that deals with measures to promote mental health, prevent mental illness, and suffering and facilitate rehabilitation.

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Mental hygiene

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What is the main tool of a nurse ?

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Therapeutic use of self

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What is the core concept of the therapeutic use of self?

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Self -awareness

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Understanding of ones personality, emotions and sensitivity, motivation, ethics, philosophy of life, physical ans social image and capacity.

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Self-awareness

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What is the basis of the therapeutic use of self?

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Joharis window

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Joharis window quadrants.?

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Quadrant 1 social/public self
Quadrant 2 semi public self (blind quadrant)
Quadrant 3 private self (hidden quadrant)
Quadrant 4 area of the unknown (inner self)

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One can increase knowledge by

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Listening to one self

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What are the levels of intervention on psychiatric nursing?

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Primary
Secondary
Tertiary

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Interventions aimed at the promotion of mental health and lowering the rate of cases by altering the stressors

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Primary

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Intervention that limits the severity of a disorder

What are the two components ?

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Secondary

  • case finding
  • prompt treatment
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Interventions aimed at reducing the disability after a disorder

What are the two components ?

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Tertiary

  • prevention of complication
  • active program of rehabilitation
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What are the characteristic of psychiatric nursing ?

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Empathy
Genuineness/congruence
Unconditional positive regard

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What are the roles of the nurse in the psychiatric settings?

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Ward manager 
Counselor
Parent surrogate
Patient advocate
Teacher
Technician 
Therapist 
Reality base
Heathy role model
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General assessment

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Facial expression 
Grooming 
Body language 
Behavior 
Communication
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Therapeutic communication basic elements

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Sender
Message
Receiver
Feedback

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Nonverbal aspect of therapeutic communication

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Kinetics 
Proxemics
Touch
Silence
Paralanguage
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An overt response to stimuli of a suggestive nature where a body posture is imposed by another because of fear or hallucinations

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Waxy flexibility

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The introjection of a high level of anxiety and other emotions perceived in response to a threatening situation

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Pathological limb rigidity

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Ritualistic displacement of anxiety through repetitive actions carried out against the pt’s conscious wishes which have symbolic relationship to underlying conflict.

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Compulsion

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A compulsive displacement of anxiety of automatic duplication of the immediately observed movements and gesture by another individual in the patients presence.

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Echopraxia

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Sudden, unpredictable outburst of activity without first thinking about the rationality and affects of the behavior

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Impulsiveness

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Involuntary jerking and twitching of some part of the body, usually localized in the neck face and head,

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Tics and spasm

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Repeating the speech of another, like resounding echo, as if experiencing a compulsion to respond

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Echolalia

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The injection of witty or clever remarks into a conversation, or the humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest a different meaning,

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Punning

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Phrases or whole sentences with similarly ending lines as in a lyrical poetic manner during conversation or writing

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Rhyming

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A linkage of words with similar sounds

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Clang association

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Coinging pf new words that have symbolic meaning

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Neologism

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Sudden stop of speech Which occurs when the trend of thought has been lost

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Blocking

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Verbal responses which are not pertinent to or related to the immediate communication content, giving the impression of distractibility or a defect in comprehension and thought process

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Irrelevance

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The inclusion in conversation by a highly anxious individual of many unnecessary details, scattered thought and explanations,

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Circumstantiality

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With one slight relevance to the subject matter being discussed

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Tangentiality

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A continuous stream of conversation with rapid shifts in topics owing to pressure of thoughts, topic jumping

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Flight of ideas

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A disconnected flaw of communication made up of a mixture of words, phrases and sentences which sounds meaning less

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Word salad

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The state of silent or voiceless

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Mutism

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Repetition of words or phrases

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Verbigeration

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An abnormal exaggerated feeling of well being which is out of proportion to the environmental and interpersonal stimuli

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Euphoria

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An effective reaction extending beyond a state of euphoria.

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Elation

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A reduction or dulling of emotional response to stimuli so that one reacts with less interest, attention, and feeling than normally.

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Apathy

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A flattening of the effect or loss of the capacity to experience and express emotion at normal intensity.

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Blunting

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A belief that one is under the stronger influence of another person or force

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Alien control

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Expressing the delusion that one has the abilities which may be linked to the powers of a supreme being.

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Comic identification

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Ones perception of the world being unreal

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Depersonalization

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The pt believes he is some one and acts like that person

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Transfer of personality

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Memory defect vary in degree and type and may be organic

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Memory impairments

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A reduction in mental alertness and awareness which may vary in degree and depth from drowsiness to comatose

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Stupor

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Falsification of facts or distortion of memory is bit deliberate but the result if mental deterioration which produces gaps in memory that motivate defensive compensatory actions (memory gaps)

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Confabulation

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False logic of a fabtastic nature that is motivated be low self esteem and weak superego

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Pseudologica fantastica

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The coexistence of twi opposing drives desires feeling or emotions

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Ambivalence

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Feeling emotionally out of harmony with a situation

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Irritability

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Characterized as emotional instability, a quick shift in his emotional response.

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Lability

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Lack of trust in others

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Suspicion

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Being able ti recognize and accept the fact that one is ill even though the dynamics of the illness are not understood

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Insight

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Being unaware of the correct date, time, place etc,

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Disorientation

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Having an ability to understand communication as well as what is taking place in ones environment

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Comprehension

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The interference of anxiety and environmental stimuli with ones ability to focus attention upon communication and occurrences

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Distractibility

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An inability to adequately comprehend a situation or recognize the logic of explanation owing to intellectual impairments caused by organic changes or psychic conflict

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Impairment of judgement

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Being able to focus ones special senses and intellectual response upon communication and environmental situation for a period of time,

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Attention

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Being readily responsive to stimuli of a suggestive nature

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Suggestibility

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Persistent introspection and inward reflection, thus internalizing instead of externalizing intellectual activity and affect

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Preoccupational

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Impairment of the special senses by which the pt perceive in the response to his own inner stimulation

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Hallucination

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A misinterpretation of an external stimulus by an of the special senses

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Illusion

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A false belief to which the pt. Clings that is motivated by the affective aspect of the personality

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Delusions

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A belief that is held by the pt that something in the environment has a meaning intended for him

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Ideas of reference

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A nurse client interaction is directed toward enhancing the clients well being

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Therapeutic relationship

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Elements of therapeutic relationship

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  • contract
  • boundaries
  • confidentiality
  • therapeutic nurse behavior
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Unconcious specific intrapsychic adaptive effort which are employed by the person ti resolve emotional conflict and to cope with anxiety

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Defense mechanism

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