NUR 2459 Mental and Behavioral Health Nursing
Mental Health Exam 1 Review
Ethical principle:
Fidelity
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this Ethical principle emphasizes the health care worker’s loyalty and faithfulness to the client.
Ethical principle:
Autonomy
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this ethical principle emphasizes the client's right to make his or her own decision.Children, comatose individuals, and those with severe mental illness are incapable of making informed choices. A representative is asked to intervene & consent
Ethical principle:
Beneficence
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this ethical principle refers to one's duty to benefit or promote the good of others. The nurse is always the client's advocate. 1 / 4
Ethical principle:
Non-maleficence
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this ethical principle emphasizes that the health care provider is required to not harm the client (intentional or unintentional)
Ethical principle:
Justice
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this ethical principle emphasizes that clients are to be treated equally regardless of race, sex, marital status, medical diagnosis, social and economic standing or religious belief.
Ethical principle:
Veracity
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this ethical principle refers to one's duty to always be honest
Transference
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Occurs when the client unconsciously displaces or transfers to the nurse feelings formed toward another person from his or her past.
Countertransference
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refers to the nurse's behavioral and emotional responses to the patient in which the nurse transfers feelings (often unconscious) about past experiences or people onto the patient.
Defense mechanism:
Undoing
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performing an act to make up for previous behavior
Defense mechanism:
Splitting
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demonstrating an inability to bring together negative and positive attributes of self or other
Defense mechanism:
Sublimation
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rechanneling drives on impulses that are unacceptable into constructive activities
Defense mechanism:
Suppression
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the voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and thoughts 3 / 4
Defense mechanism:
Regression
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unconsciously retreating to an earlier level of development. (a toddler going back to a bottle for comfort, even though he's been on a sippy cup since 6mos)
Defense mechanism:
Reaction formation
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demonstrating the opposite behavior of what is felt
Defense mechanism:
Rationalization
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attempting to make excuses for unacceptable behavior/feelings
Defense mechanism:
Projection
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attributing feelings or impulses unacceptable to oneself to another person
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