FINALS Flashcards
Internal coping strategies include:
action-oriented, cognitive reappraisal and interpersonal behaviors.
It is the ongoing disparity resulting from a loss characterized by pervasiveness and permanence. Symptoms of grief recur periodically, and these symptoms are potentially progressive.
Chronic sorrow
It occurs as a result of disparity between the “ideal” and real situations or experiences. For example, there is a “perfect child” and a child with a chronic condition who differs from that idea.
Loss
These are situations, circumstances, and conditions that highlight the disparity or the recurrent loss and initiate or exacerbate feelings of grief.
Trigger events
These are means by which individuals deal with chronic sorrow. These may be internal (personal coping strategies) or external (health care practitioner or other persons’ interventions).
Management methods
These results from strategies that increase the individual’s discomfort or heighten the feelings of chronic sorrow.
Ineffective management
These results from strategies that lead to increased comfort of the affected individual.
Effective management
“not trying to fight it”
Cognitive Coping
“keeping busy”
Action Coping Mechanism
“having a good cry”
Emotional Strategy
“going to a psychiatrist”
Interpersonal Coping
Diagnosing chronic sorrow and providing interventions are within the scope of nursing practice.
Nursing
Individuals respond to their assessment of themselves in relation to social norms.
Environment
Humans have an idealized perception of life processes and health.
People
There is a normality of functioning.
Health
It helps nurses care for patients in the mental health field by recognizing and working with the inevitability of change in a patient’s life and environment.
Tidal Model of Mental Health Nursing
allow people to use their own language
Respect the Language
show interest in the person’s story
Develop genuine curiosity
the person’s story is paramount
value the voice
learn from the person you are helping
became the apprentice
both the person and the helper. Professionals are in a privileged position and should model confidence, by at all times being transparent and helping to ensure the person understand exactly what is being done.
Be transparent
people are experts in their own story
Reveal personal wisdom
the person’s story contains valuable information as to what works and what doesn’t
Use the available toolkit
the helper and the person work together to construct an appreciation of what needs to be done “now”
Craft the step beyond
this is a common experience for all people
know that change is constant
time is the midwife of change. The question that should be asked is, “How do we use this time?”
give the gift of time
These are needs for comfort arising from stressful health care situations that cannot be met by recipients’ traditional support systems.
HEALTH CARE NEEDS
It is the state experienced by recipients of comfort interventions.
COMFORT
Institutional integrity is based on a value system oriented to the recipients of care.
True or False
True