NUR 374 Study Guide - Final Guide: Echolalia, Agoraphobia, Dysautonomia
26 Apr 2017
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Remember the steps of the nursing process, always assess your patient first. Be able to prioritize patients (when you are assigning patients to a float nurse, give them the least sick patient). Legal ethical: review the varcarolis textbook chapter and associated questions, and psychiatric success questions for legal ethical issues. *hint: silvestri nclex book has legal ethical questions. Identification: attributing to oneself the characteristics of another person or group; conscious or unconscious. Justice: duty to distribute care equally (equally care) Suicide communication and precautions (chapter 25: one-to-one nursing observation 24 hours/day, primary prevention is educating. Avoid imposing your own feelings on the client. Avoid extremes in your own mood with the client (especially exaggerated cheerfulness). Use silence: focus directly on the client"s self-destructive ideas. Acknowledge suicidal threats with calmness and without reproach-do not minimize the threat. Find out the details about the suicide plan and reduce environmental hazards. Help the client verbalize aggressive, hostile, and hopeless feelings.
