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Mental Health - ✅✅A dynamic process in which a person's: physical, cognitive,
affective, emotional, behavioral, social dimensions interact FUNCTIONALLY with
one another and with the environment
Mental Illness/ Disorder - ✅✅Physical, cognitive, affective, behavioral and
social patterns that interact DYSFUNCTIONALLY with the environment.
(Definable diagnoses related to development, biology and psychological
disturbances)
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - ✅✅Promotes mental health through the
assessment, diagnosis and treatment of human responses to mental health
problems and psychiatric disorders.
[also: employs a purposeful us of self as its art,
and uses wide range of nursing, psychosocial and neurobiological theories and
research evidence as its science.]
Nursing Phenomena of Concern - ✅✅Actual/ potential mental health problems
of patient include....
-Self- care deficits
-alterations in thinking, perceiving, communicating and decision making
-symptom management
-side effects/ toxicities
-emotional problems
-maintenance of optimal mental health
, -prevention of mental illness
-emotional, biological and cognitive deficits
-danger for self/others
-emotional stress, crisis r/t illness, pain disability, loss of self concept,
development and end of life issues
-psych probs r/t physical changes/illnesses
Basic Nurse Functions - ✅✅1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Outcomes
4. Planning
5. Implement
A. coordinate care
B. health teaching/ promotion
C. milieu therapy
D. pharmacological, biological and integrative therapy
E. therapeutic relationship/ counseling
6. Evaluate
Advanced Practice ONLY - ✅✅F. Prescriptive authority and treatment
G. psychotherapy
H. consultation
DSM (multi-axial system) - ✅✅Diagnostic Statistical Manual