NUR 2459 Mental Health
- "Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship
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Summarizing the goals and objectives achieved, discussing ways to incorporate new coping strategies, reviewing situations that occurred and exchanging memories
- "Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship
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Maintaining the relation- ship, gathering data, promoting problem solving skills and self- esteem, facilitate discharge, overcome resistance, evaluate problems and goals
- Cognitive BehavioralTherapy (CBT)
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Theory behind this therapy
Everyone has schemata-unique assumptions about self, others, and the world around them
- What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy?
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A health environment, combined with a healthy social structure within a inpatient or outpatient setting supporting and treating those with mental illness
- Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship- 1 / 3
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Focus on the patient's problems and concerns encouraging them to find their own situations, not "being a friend" or meeting the needs of the nurse
- Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques
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Reassuring, giving advice, giving approval, disapproving, changing the subject
- What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique?
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"Tell me more about that"
"Would you describe it more fully?"
- What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques?
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Paraphrasing, summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
- What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication technique?
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"Don't worry everything will be alright", "You'll be fine". "There's nothing to worry about"
- What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique- 2 / 3
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Patient
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"I wish I were dead. "Nurse
'I know what you mean."
- What is affect?
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Client's emotional display of mood being experienced
- What are levels of consciousness?
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Alert, Lethargic, Stuporous
- What is "flight of ideas"?
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Rapid changes from one thought to another related thought
- What is perseveration?
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Repeating the same words in response to different questions
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