01-25-2007, 08:51 PM
Hi there. Haven't been on the boards much lately as I had a family crisis. But, I'm back now. Just picked up 8 credits for Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. Yippee!!!
Here's some of what you need to know:
Nursing theories and people who originated them.
Role of the therapist in individual, family, group and community settings.
Dynamics of the small group, including facilitator and member roles.
Actions and side effects of commonly presribed drugs and what they're prescibed for.
Common nursing terms; diaphoresis, orthostatic, hypertensive etc.
Therapeutic milieu-originator and purpose.
Anxiety, depression, bi-polar, schizophrenic, anorexic, buliemic, delirium, dementia (alzheimers) ; how to recognize and treat.
Primary, Secondary, tertiary and the nursing role.
Defense mechanisms, ego protective devices.
Cognitive and Behavorial strategies.
Psychological theories: Interpersonal, Psychoanalytic, Social, Existential, Medical.
How the medical role is different from the Psychiatric Nurse role.
Nothing on legal-ethics, committment, and legal decisions like guilty by reason of mental illness.
Review ECT and non-conventional therapies.
Prepared by reading Excelsior's 840 page book and doing the exercises at the end of each chapter. Also used the associated web site and disc that came with the book.
Everything was situational based on a particular nursing theory.
Here's some of what you need to know:
Nursing theories and people who originated them.
Role of the therapist in individual, family, group and community settings.
Dynamics of the small group, including facilitator and member roles.
Actions and side effects of commonly presribed drugs and what they're prescibed for.
Common nursing terms; diaphoresis, orthostatic, hypertensive etc.
Therapeutic milieu-originator and purpose.
Anxiety, depression, bi-polar, schizophrenic, anorexic, buliemic, delirium, dementia (alzheimers) ; how to recognize and treat.
Primary, Secondary, tertiary and the nursing role.
Defense mechanisms, ego protective devices.
Cognitive and Behavorial strategies.
Psychological theories: Interpersonal, Psychoanalytic, Social, Existential, Medical.
How the medical role is different from the Psychiatric Nurse role.
Nothing on legal-ethics, committment, and legal decisions like guilty by reason of mental illness.
Review ECT and non-conventional therapies.
Prepared by reading Excelsior's 840 page book and doing the exercises at the end of each chapter. Also used the associated web site and disc that came with the book.
Everything was situational based on a particular nursing theory.
Crystal King
BS Liberal Studies 3.87
Preparing for GRE
Goal Master Library Science 2009
Ambition is the Path to success,
Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
BS Liberal Studies 3.87
Preparing for GRE
Goal Master Library Science 2009
Ambition is the Path to success,
Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
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