A major disturbance caused by a stressful event that disrupts homeostasis.
What is a crisis?
Specially trained clinicians that provide care to patients who have been sexually assaulted.
Who are sexual assault nurse examiners?
The infliction of bodily harm such as slapping, punching, or choking.
What is physical abuse?
Psychiatrist who studied the stages of the human response to death and loss.
Who is Elisabeth Kubler-Ross?
Family made up of two parents who are married to each other and their biological or adopted children.
What is a nuclear family?
Arises from events that are usually distressing and often unanticipated.
What is situational crisis?
A legally recognized category of rape dealing with the ability to give consent.
What is statutory rape?
Stages of the cycle of violence.
What is tension-building, acute battering, and honeymoon?
The act of putting someone to death.
Individual in the family that is regarded as the one with "the problem".
What is identified patient?
Phase of a crisis where either anxiety escalates to panic level or resolution occurs.
What is Phase 3?
Refers to the trauma of the examination of a victim of sexual assault.
What is revictimization?
Nurses are legally mandated to report these cases of abuse.
What are child and vulnerable adult abuse?
A personal statement of how and where one wishes to die.
What is a living will?
Places the patient at the center of care, focuses on prevention and wellness.
What is integrative care?
Level of prevention where programs and services provide long-term support for those who have experienced crisis.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
The third most common violent crime in the United States after aggravated assault and robbery.
What is rape?
A plan for rapid escape when abuse occurs.
What is a safety plan?
Care that begins after treatment of the disease or condition is stopped.
What is hospice care?
The three domains of integrative care.
What are natural products, mind and body approaches, and other CAM therapies?
The two initial goals of the registered nurse in crisis intervention.
What are patient safety and anxiety reduction?
Mental health disorder that is most commonly suffered by individuals of sexual assault.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
Consists of measures taken to prevent the occurrence of abuse like stress reduction, increasing social support, and increasing coping skills.
What is primary prevention?
Loss experienced by individuals that is not congruent with a socially recognized relationship.
What is disenfranchised grief?
Marked by the presence of deficits in voluntary motor control.
What is conversion disorder?