Unit 12 Mental Illness & Mental Health Nursing Flashcards
What does Milieu Therapy refer to?
A therapeutic environment
By making patients do self-care activities what is the health team ultimately trying to establish?
Establish independence in the patients
What is the role’s nurse in mental health nursing?
- Manage the environment on a 24 hr basis (Milieu Therapy)
- Ensure the client’s physiological and psychological needs are met
- Medication administartion
- Development of a one-to-one relationship
- Setting limits on unacceptable behavior
- Client education
Describe the mental health continuum.
Like a see-saw:
Mental Illness—Degrees of functioning—Mental Health
What is mental health?
Successful adaptation to stressors from the internal or external environment evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are age appropriate and congruent with local cultural and norms.
*basically handling life and everything thrown at you appropriately within your cultural norms**
What is the communication model in order?
- Referent
- Sender
- Message
- Medium
- Receiver
- Feedback (to sender)
What is active listening?
Active listening means to be attentive to what the client is saying verbally and non-verbally
What is SOLER in active listening?
S it comfortably facing the client O bserve an open posture L ean forward toward the client E stablish some eye contact R elax
Explain feedback.
*not evaluating but rather describing *
- Focuses on the behavior rather than the client
- Is specific rather than general
- Directed on behavior that CAN be CHANGED
- Imparts information rather than offers advice
- Is well timed
In what ways to cultures differ? Explain them.
> Communication
-Expressed through language, paralanguage, and gesture
> Space (place where communication occurs)
- Territorial
- Density
- Distance
> Social organization
- groups which individuals are acculturated, acquiring knowledge and internalizing values
- ex: families, religious groups, ethnic groups
> Time
-some cultures place importance on time, others don’t
> Environmental Control
- extent to which individuals perceive they have control over their environment
- cultural beliefs/practices influence how individuals respond during times of wellness or illness
> Biological Variations
-Differences in various racial groups including body structure, skin color, physiological responses to medication, nutritional preferences and deficiencies, susceptibility to disease
What psychiatric diagnosis is common within the native american culture?
Alcohol abuse and dependence
What are cultural based syndromes?
- symptoms associated with specific cultures that may be expressed differently from the american culture
- most are considered to be an “illness” and have local names
Describe spirituality.
Refers to the human quality that gives meaning and sense of purpose to an individuals existence
Exists within each individual regardless of belief system and serves as a force for interconnectedness between self and others, and a higher power
What does having a purpose in life give?
Control and the feeling that life is worth living
What is faith?
-Acceptance of a belief in the absence of physical or empirical evidence
