Exam 1 Flashcards
Mental health continuum
Shows how functioning may change over time
Diathesis-stress model
Diathesis represents biological predisposition and stress represents environmental stress/trauma
Mental health parity
Equality of funding from insurance companies for mental health
Epidemiology
Helps identify high risk groups and behaviors and causes of some behaviors
Prevalance rates
Identify proportion of population experiencing a specific mental disorder at a given time
DSM-5
Criteria for psychiatric disorders and appropriate interventions
Standardized nursing classification system
Used to form and communicate patient problems
Institute of medicine (IOM) & quality and safety education of medicine (QSEN)
Made mandates to prepare future nurses with knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for quality and safety - includes the 6 competencies of nursing
6 competencies of nursing
Patient centered care
Teamwork and collaboration
Evidence based practice
Quality improvement
Safety
Informatics
Therapeutic use of self
Using personal personality traits to promote healing in others
Values
An ideal, positive or negative, of what is important in life
Ex. Self resilience, honesty, cleanliness, organization, justice, respect, healthy lifestyle
Opinion/conviction
Something you hold to be true, confidence, trust, or faith, religious tenets or creed
Transference
Pt views nurse as being similar to someone they know
Countertramsference
Pt reminds the nurse of someone they know
Paplaus Preorientation phase
Obtain info about pt, examine one’s own feelings
Paplaus Orientation phase
Introduction, establish rapport, specifying a contract, explaining confidentiality
Paplaus working phase
Increased levels of anxiety and recognize dysfunctional responses
Identify and explore areas that are causing problems in pts life and evaluate coping mechanisms
Paplaus termination phase
Summarizes goals and objectives that have been achieved
Exchange memories to validate experience and facilitate closure
Psychotherapy
Group of theoretically based therapies used by ARNPs
Empathy
Understanding the feelings of others
Sympathy
Felling pity for others BAD
Content level of communication
Verbal speech
Process level of communication
Nonverbal behavior
Personal factors that can affect communication
Psychiatric disorder
Environmental factors of communication
Noise
lack of privacy
Relationship factors of communication
Equality
Difference in power
Beliefs
Opinions
Religions
Trust
Faith
Nontherapeutic communication
Excessive questioning
Giving approval/disapproval
Giving advice
Asking why questions
Kinesic communication
Nonverbal communication made by body movements, facial expressions, body posture and gestures
Vocal quality/paralanguage
Volume pitch, rate and fluency
Improves rapport and demonstrates empathy
Proxemics
Significance of physical distance between individuals
Intimate distance
18 in
Who we trust the most/ feel safe
Personal distance
18in-4ft
Friends/colleagues
Social distance
4-12 ft
Strangers/acquaintances
Public spaces/ social gatherings
Public distance
12ft or more
Public speaking
Party may move while speaking
Resilience
Effective on not focusing on negative thoughts
Stigma
Belief that overall person is flawed
Social shunning, disgrace, shame
Comorbidity
Presence of 2 or more disorders
Channel
Method where communication takes place (in person, telephone)
Encode
Develops messages