NR110 (Latest 2023 / 2024 ) Anxiety
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1. What is mild anxiety?:
This occurs in everyday living, natural. Slight discomfort, irritability, restlessness, and mild tension
2. What moderate anxiety?:
Perceptual filed narrows. The ability to think clearly is hampered. Focus more on things. Problem-solving can take place but with decreased ability
3. What is severe anxiety?:
Focused on one detail. Trembling, pounding heart, hyperventilation, sense of doom. Aimed at reliving anxiety
4. What is panic anxiety?:
Most extreme. Disturbed behavior cannot process events or what's happening.Shouting, screaming, confusion, lack of coordination, withdrawal, and lack of implusiveness
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- What interventions should you do when a patient is eliciting mild/moder-
ate/severe levels of anxiety?:
Ask Open-ended questions, exploring and seeking clarification, remaining calm, recognizing distress, being willing to listen, evaluating past coping mechanisms, restricting topics, and introducing irrelevant topics make the nurse feel better
6. What is the main priority for the severe level?:
Safety is the main priority for the patient and others
7. What is intermediate defense?:
Repression, displacement, reaction forma- tion, somatization, undoing, and rationalization
8. What is healthy defense?:
Altruism, sublimation, humor, and suppression
9. What is altruism?:
Constructive service to others that brings pleasure and personal satisfaction
10. What is sublimation?:
Transformation of unhelpful emotions of instincts into healthy actions, behaviors, or emotions (playing sports, advocacy)
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