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What is self concept?
all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?"
What is the nursing process?
Assessment (consist of self-esteem inventory) Diagnosis (chronic
low-self esteem, situational low self-esteem, risk for chronic low esteem, risk for situational low self esteem.
Stages in development of self? What affects self-concept?
Self-awareness (infancy), self-rocnition (18 months), self-definition (3 years), and self-concept (6-7 years)
Body image, self-esteem, role performance, and personal identity
What is fatigue?
Fatigue is when a person experiences an overwhelming, sustained sense of exhaustion and decreased capacity for physical and mental work that is not relieved by rest. →can be related to depression NOT RELIEVED BY REST
Consequences of unhealthy lifestyles that reflect a disturbance in one's life? -
Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Crime and Violence, Depression and Suicide, Eating disorder, Ineffective Interpersonal Relationships, Teenage Pregancy.
What are the four dimensions?
Self knowledge, self expectation, social evaluation, social self
What is the term onset?
Result of self interaction
Maslow’s Subsets of Esteem Needs:
Self-esteem: Strength, achievement, mastery and competence, confidence in the face of
NANDA definition:
An overwhelming sustained sense of exhaustion and decreased capacity for physical and mental work at the usual level
Factors Affecting self-concept?
Development considerations, culture, internal and external resources, history of success and failure, crisis or life stressors, aging, illness and trauma
What is self knowledge?
Appearance, values, beliefs that influence behavior.
What is self expectation? What is social self?
self expectation- what is one self expectation for themselves
social self- how others look at them, and how society looks at them. Plays a huge role in the growth and development of a person.
Types of physical and psychological boundaries:
Physical closeness, touching, sexual behavior, eye contact, privacy and pollution (ex.touching someones who doesn’t want to be touches)
Psychological- Beliefs, feeling, choices, needs, time alone, interest, confidences, individual differences, spirituality
How should we access the patient with fatigue (ADPIE)?
Onset, patterns (monitoring, evening, transient, continuous), effects (mood, leisure, concentration, motivation).
What constitutes a healthy self-concept?
Love yourself, love and accept yourself, be honest, and take responsibility
What are Erikson's Stages or development?
Trust vs mistrust (birth to 18 months)= self-confidence
Autonomy vs shame and doubt (18 months -3 years) = self-confidence
Initiative vs guilt (3 to 6 years)= sense of purpose
Industry vs inferiority (6 to 12 years)= self-confidence
Identity vs role confusion (12 to 20 Years)– developing independence
Intimacy vs Isolation (20-30 years) – commitment to person/cause
Generativity vs role stagnation (30 to 65 years) – gratification from achievements
Ego Integrity vs despair (65 years to death) - accepting some of life’s goals are
achieved and some are not
What behavior reflects low self-esteem?
Avoiding eye contact, stooped posture, poorly groomed, hesitant in speech, overly critical of self.
What is self-esteem? What is healthy self-esteem? What are self-esteem stressors?
self esteem -how someone feels overall about there worth
Healthy self-esteem: being phrased, being listened too, being spoken to respectfully, getting attention, and hugs, experiencing success in sports and school, having trustworthy friends
Self esteem stressors-lack of positive feedback from significant others, repeated failure, unrealistics expectations, abusive relationships,loss of financial security
What is the implementation for a part with fatigue? When do they have the most energy
help the patient identify activities important to self esteem, teach prioritizing and pacing, rest before important tasks, teach energy conversion, promote socialization, discuss effects of stress on energy
Boundaries?
Consists of the personal space, both physical and psychological that individuals identify as their own
What are types of physiological boundaries?
Beliefs, feelings, choices, needs, time alone, interests, confidence, individual differences, spirituality, and being critizied for doing something different from others
Factors Affecting self-concept?
Development considerations, culture, internal and external resources, history of success and failure, crisis or life stressors, aging, illness and trauma
What is anxiety? What are the types of anxiety?
Anxiety-A diffuse apprehension that is vague in nature and is associated with feelings of uncertainty and helplessness
Mild (normal anxiety in response to events of day to day living), moderate (begins to focus on self and need to relieve discomfort), severe (person can only focus on one particular detail) and panic(person becomes unreasonable and irrational)
Applying the nursing process during an assessment example?
The self-esteem inventory, personal identity, body image, role performance, self esteem
Example of Image Disturbance?
change in body disturbance; amputations, mastectomy, facial disfigurement, burns, colostomy, paralysis, impotence