Mental Health NUR2459 Module 4 EXAM 1 review guide 2021 updated

• Role of the psychiatric Nurse o Work closely with treatment teams to develop individualized patient plans, aiming to maximize care and help patients live productive lives. They also provide individual counseling to patients and families to help them understand the illness. o Stranger ▪ Accepting the patient as he is ▪ Treating the patient as an emotionally able stranger and relating to him on this basis until evidence shows him to be otherwise. o Resource person ▪ In the role of resource person, the nurse explains, in language that the patient can understand, information related to the patient’s health care. o Teacher ▪ the nurse identifies learning needs and provides information required by the patient or family to improve the health situation. o Leader ▪ Autocratic leadership promotes overvaluation of the nurse and patients’ substitution of the nurse’s goals for their own. Laissez-faire leaders convey a lack of personal interest in the patient. o Surrogate ▪ Outside of their awareness, patients often perceive nurses as symbols of other individuals. They may view the nurse as a mother figure, a sibling, a former teacher, or another nurse who has provided care in the past. This perception occurs when a patient is placed in a situation that generates feelings similar to ones he or she has experienced previously. o Technical expert ▪ The nurse understands various professional devices and possesses the clinical skills necessary to perform interventions that are in the best interest of the patient. o Counselor ▪ The nurse uses “interpersonal techniques” to assist patients in adapting to difficulties or changes in life experiences. ▪ Counseling in nursing has to do with helping the patient to remember and to understand fully what is happening to him in the present situation, so that the experience can be integrated with, rather than dissociated from, other experiences in life. • Therapeutic use of self o strategic, useful tool for mental health professionals to improve empathy and identification with patients. o the ability to use one’s personality consciously and in full awareness in an attempt to establish relatedness and to structure nursing intervention.” o Use of the self in a therapeutic manner requires that the nurse possess self- awareness and self-understanding, which are achieved by developing a philosophical belief about life, death, and the overall human condition .......................................................................................CONTINUED