Vocabulary

Question 0

Disability

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Impairment in one or more important areas of functioning

Question 1

Depression

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State wherein an individual experiences a profound sadness

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Hallucination

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Sensory experiences not perceptible to other nonpsychotic individuals

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Mania

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Mood disorder characterized by an elevated, expansive, or irritable mood

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Distress

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Negative response to stimuli that are perceived as threatening

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Mental illness

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State in which an individual shows deficits in functioning, cannot view self clearly or has a distorted image of self, is unable to maintain personal relationships, and cannot adapt to the environment

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Mental disorder

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Behavior or psychological syndrome or pattern associated with distress or disability or increased risk of suffering, death, pain, or loss of freedom

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Mental health

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State in which a person has knowledge of self, meets basic needs, assumes responsibility for behavior and self growth, integrates thoughts and feelings with actions, resolves conflicts, maintains relationships, respects others, communicates directly, and adapts to change in the environment

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Psychosis

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State in which an individual has lost the ability to recognize reality

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Asylum

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Large public hospital of the eighteenth century that provided for treatment of the insane

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Brown Report

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A 1948 report authored by Esther Lucille Brown on the future of nursing. This report advised that psychiatric hospitals be used as agencies for affiliation in teaching of nursing.

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National Mental Health Act

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Provided federal funds for research and education in all areas of psychiatric care. Act was passed in 1946. Established NIMH.

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Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

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A licensed nurse educationally certified at the masters or doctoral level and nationally certified as a clinical specialist in psychiatric and mental health nursing

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Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse

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A licensed nurse who has passed a certification exam and is thereby certified within a specialty

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Adaptive Potential

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Capacity of the person to respond to stressors - to utilize resources to cope

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Choice Point

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Time in a person’s life when previously successful activities are no longer solving disruptions in one’s life patterns

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Cognator Subsystem

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Higher brain functions that deal with information processing, judgment, emotion, and perception.

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Cognition

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Process by which a person “knows the world” and interacts with it.

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Concept

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Basic building block of theory; abstraction of reality

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Conceptual Framework

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Group of concepts that are linked together to provide a way of organizing or viewing something

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Created environment

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Mobilization of all system variables

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Culture

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Values, beliefs, norms, and lifeways that are learned and shared within a particular group

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Culture Care

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Facets of culture that deal with individual and group health and well-being, including efforts to improve on the human condition or to deal with illness, handicaps, or death.

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Culture Care Accomodation/Negotiation

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Nursing actions and decisions that involve reshaping the way in which care values are enacted so the actions will better support well-being, dealing with handicaps, recovering from illness, or facing death.

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Culture Care Preservation/Maintenance

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Nursing actions and decisions that help people of a cultural group keep or preserve those care values that are applicable to the current situation to maintain well-being, deal with handicaps, recover from illness, or face death.

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Culture Care Repatterning/Restructuring

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Nursing actions and decisions that involve change in culturally based care practices

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Ego

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Conscious mind governed by the reality principle; controls the impulses of the id.

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External Environment

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Forces, factors, and influences that occur outside the boundaries of a system.

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Extrapersonal Stressor

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Stimuli from a great distance outside the system boundary.

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Fixation

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Preoccupation with pleasures associated with a previous developmental stage

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Genetic or Folk Care Activities

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Culturally based acts for responding to apparent or anticipated needs related to living, health, well-being, handicaps, or death.

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Helicy

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The movement of human development toward increasing diversity and complexity.

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Id

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Unconscious mind; the reservoir of psychic energy or libido.

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Integrality

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The energy fields of the human being and of the environment are each part of the other’s.

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Internal Environment

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Forces, factors, and influences that occur completely within the boundaries of a system.

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Interpersonal Stressor

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Stimuli from outside the system boundary but proximal to the system

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Interpersonal Stressor

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Stimuli from within the system boundary

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Modeling

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Assessment with the goal of understanding the client’s world from the client’s perspective

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Nursing Agency

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Characteristic that allows nurses to act for others in meeting therapeutic self-care demands.

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Nursing System

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The design of care based on the type of self-care deficit.

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Orientation

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The phase of the nurse-patient relationship in which they come to know each other and begin to identify the patient’s needs

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Professional Care-Cure Practices

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Acts based on a formal preparation for dealing with health, illness, and wellness, generally within a multidisciplinary setting that is designed to serve consumers.

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Regression

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Revision to pleasures of a previous developmental stage.

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Regulatory Subsystem

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Human processes related to the autonomic nervous system and involving chemical, neural, and endocrine responses.

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Resonancy

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The movement of human energy wave patterns from low and slow to high and fast.

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Role-modeling

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Developing an individualized plan of care based on the client’s world model

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Self-Care

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Activities that humans perform for themselves to maintain life, to function, and to develop.

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Self-Care Agency

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Ability to perform self-care in light of gender, age, socioeconomic status, developmental level, health, family, environment, living patterns, and availability of resources.

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Self-Care Deficit

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State that occur when an individual’s therapeutic self-care demand is greater than the capacity to meet that demand

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Superego

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Conscious mind, governed by conscience and ego ideal

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Termination

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The final phase of the nurse-patient relationship in which the relationship is ended after the patient’s needs have been met

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Theory

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A set of interrelated concepts that provide testable relationships and direction or prediction

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Therapeutic Self-Care Demand

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Activities needed to meet self-care requisites to fulfill self-care agency

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Working phase

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The phase of the nurse-patient relationship in which the nurse and patient work together to meet the patient’s needs.