PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSING UNIT 2 STUDY QUESTIONS WITH

PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSING UNIT 2 STUDY QUESTIONS WITH
Nurses need... - Answer>>> Self-awareness
Introspection
Nurses need... Self-awareness - Answer>>> ability to look at oneself; examine one's own
attitudes, beliefs, behaviors
Nurses need...Introspection - Answer>>> expands nurse's ability to understand the feelings and
behaviors of client's with a variety of clinical symptoms
Mental Health - Answer>>> positive state, person is responsible, displays self-awareness, is selfdirected, can cope with daily tension and crises, can function well in society, fulfills one's
capacity for love and work, can become independent, interdependent, or dependent, functions
within one's own cultural or ehnic group
Factors Affecting Mental Health - Answer>>> inherited characteristics
nurturing during childhood
life circumstances
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Answer>>> Physiologic - food, water
Security&Safety - shelter
Love - must be expressed
Self-Esteem - self acceptance, how you and others think you are seen
Self- ization - how you learn, growth
Psychological Adaptation to Stress - Peplau - Answer>>> Anxiety
1. alarm, resistance, exhaustion
2. mild, moderate, severe, panic