Introduction to Psychiatric Nursing Flashcards
Is a specialized field of nursing practice that involves the care of individuals with a mental health disorder to help them recover and improve their quality of life
Psychiatric Nursing
In what year did Linda Richards received her nursing degree?
1873
In what year did the psychiatric nursing was integrated into the BSN curriculum
1955
Also known as the first American Psychiatric Nurse
Linda Richards
It is a state of emotional, psychological, and social wellness as evidenced by satisfying interpersonal relationships, effective behavior and coping, positive self- concept, and emotional stability (Videbeck, 2018).
Mental Health
The 3 evidences of mental health
- Emotional
- Psychological
- Social
is the successful adaptation to stressors from internal and external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are age- appropriate and congruent with local and cultural norms (Townsend, 2012).
Mental Health
Refers to the maladaptive responses to stressors from the internal or external environment … that interfere with the individual’s social, occupational, and/or physical functioning (Townsend, 2012).
Mental Illness
are a health condition characterized by significant dysfunction in an individual’s cognition, emotion, or behaviors that reflects a disturbance in the psychological, biological or developmental processes underlying mental functioning (American Psychiatric Association, 2012)
Mental Illnesses
The cultural considerations
- Aling Marites is the best when it comes to mental illness
- Relatives attempt to “normalize” a maladaptive behavior
- People with mental illness often seek professional help too late
- The poor usually display the highest amount of mental illness symptoms
- The rich don’t die…of psych illness ”
- Type of knowledge > Amount of knowledge
- Jewish are more likely to seek psychiatric assistance
- Women have more health-seeking behavior than men
- Cultural diveristy = Negativity
Describes the changes that occur during a disease process
Pathophysiology
The scientific study of mental disorders, including their theoretical underpinnings, etiology, progression, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment
Psychopathology
The study of mental disorders or psychosocial distresses which interact with the pathophysiological or behavioral pathways
Psycho-pathophysiology
Most mental illnesses are IDIOPATHIC
Etiology
Presents theoretical concepts and explanations of the potential etiology of mental illness
Theoretical Underpinnings
Psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral, social, and biologic theories are commonly used to explain the development and are used as basis for psychotherapeutic interventions
Theoretical Underpinnings
Attempts to explain how the disease develops
“Nature vs Nurture”
Nature has something to do with
Genetics
Nurture has something to do with
Environment
indicate symptoms that must be present (and for how long) as well as a list of other symptoms, disorders, and conditions that must first be ruled out to qualify for a particular diagnosis
Diagnostic Criteria
Meaning of (DSM-V-TR)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision
A taxonomy published by the American Psychiatric Association
DSM-V-TR
Outlines the diagnostic criteria for each mental disorders
DSM-V-TR
Unknown in Psych is the
Exact Cause
