Terms Flashcards
Promoting well-being and doing good
Beneficence
Doing what is fair
Justice
Doing no harm
Nonmaleficence
Being true and loyal
Fidelity
Doing for self
Autonomy
Telling the truth
Veracity
the intentional act of showing consideration for another person’s interests and well-being
Respect
Nature and process of treatment or procedure
Risks or discomforts and benefits of treatment
Risk and benefit of not undergoing treatment
Alternative procedures or treatments
Diagnosis and prognosis
Elements of informed consent
Phases of a therapeutic nurse-client relationship
Introduction (orientation)
Working (identification and exploitation)
Termination (resolution)
Age of typical onset for intellectual disability
Infancy- usually evident at birth
Typical age of onset for adhd
Early childhood (by 12)
Typical age of onset for schizophrenia
Men: 18-25
Women: 25-35
Typical age of onset for major depression
Late adolescence to young adulthood
Typical age of onset for dementia
After age 85
Primary drives/instinct, urges (hunger, sex, aggression), fantasies
Drives are unconscious, sexual, or aggressive in content, infantile in nature
“I want”
ID
Contains concept of external reality
Rational mind
Operates on reality
Responsible for use of defense mechanisms
“I think, I evaluate”
Ego
The ego-ideal
Sense of conscience or right versus wrong
Aspirations, ideals, moral values
Regulated by guilt and shame
Fully develops around age 6
“I should or ought”
Superego
The ego-ideal
Sense of conscience or right versus wrong
Aspirations, ideals, moral values
Regulated by guilt and shame
Fully develops around age 6
“I should or ought”
Superego
Meeting the needs of others in order to discharge drives, conflicts or stressors
Altruism
Unconscious rejection of emotionally unacceptable personal attributes, beliefs, or actions by attributing them to other people, situations, or events
Projection
Return to more comfortable thoughts, behaviors, or feelings used in earlier stages of development in response to current conflict, stress, or threat
Regression
Unconscious exclusion of unwanted, disturbing emotions, thoughts, or impulses from conscious awareness
Repression
Often called overcompensation; unacceptable feelings, thoughts, or behaviors are pushed from conscious awareness and the opposite feeling, thought, or behavior is displayed
Reaction formation
Justification of illogical, unreasonable ideas, feelings, or actions by developing an acceptable explanation that satisfies the person
rationalization
Behaviors that attempt to make up for or undo an acceptable action, feeling, or impulse
Undoing
Attempts to master current stressor or conflict by expansion of knowledge, explanation, or understanding
Intellectualization
Conscious analog repression; conscious denial of a disturbing situation, feeling, or event
Suppression
Unconscious process of substitution of socially acceptable , constructive activity for strong unacceptable impulse
Sublimation
