Psych Nursing
This term describes successful adaptation to stressors in a way that is age-appropriate and culturally congruent.
What is mental health?
This stage of the sexual response cycle allows the body to recover, with differing patterns between males and females influencing post-orgasmic activity.
What is the resolution stage?
Refers to the loss of objects with sentimental or monetary value.
What is external loss?
This age group needs approximately 12-16 hours of sleep per day.
What are infants?
This type of communication is client-centered, goal-directed, and builds trust.
What is therapeutic communication?
This type of movement disorder, often caused by antipsychotics like Haldol, includes symptoms like tremors and a shuffling gait.
What are extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS)?
Age group that might believe they cannot contract a sexually transmitted infection during the first sexual encounter.
What are young adults?
Refers to the concept of death being defined as the irreversible loss of consciousness and suggests that a person could be declared "dead" even if basic bodily functions like breathing and heartbeat continue, supported by machines.
What is higher brain death?
These natural cycles regulate bodily functions like temperature, hormone release, and sleep-wake cycles.
What are biorhythms?
Difficulty with language or speech, possibly caused by stroke.
Aphasia
This characteristic of a therapeutic nurse-client relationship means the nurse maintains honesty and is real with the patient.
What is genuineness?
This age group might require adaptations to ensure sexual satisfaction.
What are older adults?
A state of deep unconsciousness where a person cannot be awakened, does not respond to stimuli, and lacks sleep-wake cycles.
What is a coma?
This network of neurons in the brainstem plays a central role in maintaining wakefulness and alertness.
What is the Reticular Activating System?
Answers the question “Who am I?”
What is self-concept?
This law protects a psychiatric patient’s right to privacy and restricts sharing of health information without consent.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
Arousal disorder that is thought of as the canary in the coal mine
What is erectile dysfunction?
Decreased appetite, fatigue, social withdrawal, and cognitive changes occur during this stage of death
What is early stage (1-3 months before death)?
This is considered the restful or restorative phase of sleep during which heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and body temperature all decrease.
What is Non-Rapid Eye Movement (NREM)?
Two most common Local Adaptation Syndrome (LAS) responses
What are reflex pain response and inflammatory response?
Disturbances in this neurotransmitter is associated with movement disorders like Parkinson's Disease.
What is dopamine?
Severe PMS that may cause serious depression or emotional distress.
What is Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)?
Begins as normal grief but continues long term, with little resolution of feelings and inability to rejoin normal life.
Chronic grief
Must occur ≥3 nights/week for ≥3 months despite opportunity for sleep.
What is insomnia?
This phase of the alarm stage begins when the cerebral cortex first perceives a stressor and sends out messages to activate the endocrine and sympathetic nervous systems. Epinephrine (adrenaline) and various other hormones prepare the body for fight or flight.
What is the shock phase?