Category: Psychiatric NursingRegression is reverting to an earlier, more primitive and childlike pattern of behavior that may or may not have been previously exhibited. Example: A 4-year-old boy with a new baby brother starts sucking his thumb.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Psychiatric Nursing
Category: Psychiatric NursingRegression is reverting to an earlier, more primitive and childlike pattern of behavior that may or may not have been previously exhibited. Example: A 4-year-old boy with a new baby brother starts sucking his thumb.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Psychiatric Nursing
Category: Psychiatric NursingReaction formation is when unacceptable feelings or behaviors are controlled and kept out of awareness by developing the opposite behavior or emotion. Example: A recovering alcoholic constantly preaches about the evils of drinking.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Psychiatric Nursing
Category: Psychiatric NursingRationalization consists of justifying illogical or unreasonable ideas, actions or feelings by developing acceptable explanations that satisfy the teller. Example: An employee says, “I didn't get the raise because the boss doesn't like me.”
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Psychiatric Nursing
Category: Psychiatric NursingProjection refers to the unconscious rejection of emotionally unacceptable features and attributing them to other people, objects or situations. Example: A man who is unconsciously attracted to other women teases his wife about flirting.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Psychiatric Nursing
Category: Psychiatric NursingIntrojection is the process by which the outside world is incorporated or absorbed into a person's view of the self. Example: After his wife's death, a man has transient complaints of chest pains - symptoms his wife had before she died.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Psychiatric Nursing
Category: Psychiatric NursingIntellectualization is a process in which events are analyzed based on remote, cold facts and without passion, rather than incorporating feeling and emotion. Example: A man responds to the death of his wife by focusing on financials.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Psychiatric Nursing
Category: Psychiatric NursingIdentification is attributing to oneself the characteristics of another person or group. This may be done consciously or unconsciously. Example: A young boy thinks a neighborhood pimp with money and drugs is someone to look up to.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Psychiatric Nursing
Category: Psychiatric NursingDissociation is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment. It may result in a separation between feeling and thought. Example: Ignoring noise and focusing on work.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Psychiatric Nursing
Category: Psychiatric NursingDisplacement is the transference of emotions associated with a particular person, object, or situation to another nonthreatening person, object, or situation. Example: A patient criticizes a nurse after his family fails to visit.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Psychiatric Nursing
Category: Psychiatric NursingDenial involves escaping unpleasant, anxiety-causing thoughts, feelings or needs by ignoring their existence. Example: A woman whose husband died 3 years ago still keeps his clothes and talks about him in the present tense.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Psychiatric Nursing
Category: Psychiatric NursingConversion is the unconscious transformation of anxiety into a physical symptom with no organic cause. Often the symptom functions to gain attention or as an excuse. Example: A man becomes blind after seeing his wife flirt with men.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Psychiatric Nursing
Category: Psychiatric NursingCompensation is used to make up for perceived deficiencies and to cover up shortcomings related to these deficiencies to protect the conscious mind from recognizing them. Example: A short man is assertively verbal & excels at work.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Psychiatric Nursing
Category: Psychiatric Nursing Defense mechanisms are automatic coping styles that protect people from anxiety and maintain self-image by blocking feelings, conflicts and memories. Although used, defense mechanisms are not always apparent to the individual.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Psychiatric Nursing
Category: Psychiatric Nursing A person with severe anxiety may focus on one particular detail or many scattered details and have difficulty noticing what is going on in the environment. Learning and problem solving are not possible at this level.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Laboratory Studies
Category: Laboratory StudiesEnoxaparin (Lovenox) is the prototype low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) and is obtained by enzymatically cleaving large unfractionated heparin molecules into small fragments. It is available only in injectable form.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Laboratory Studies
Category: Laboratory StudiesINR (international normalized ratio) reflects doses of warfarin taken 36 to 72 hours prior to testing. Advantages of INR testing include the fact that there is more consistency among laboratories and a more consistent warfarin dosage.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Nursing Nerds: CriticalCareNurse Journal & AbViser Medical
This topic stumbled into my life as I was reading the newly released CriticalCareNurse Journal (February 2012, Volume 32, No.1) this morning while eating breakfast. This journal featured the topic of intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome. As I continued to read, I found this great image regarding this disease process. I wanted you all to have the opportunity to have the image for school or work. I messaged the creators, AbViser Medical and they sent me this terrific image. It's an amazing educational tool and will help anyone in nursing. Like me, this company will be at the National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition in Orlando, Florida this May. I hope you all enjoy the image and learn something, I sure did.
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CriticalCareNurse Journal | http://ccn.aacnjournals.org
AbViser Medical | http://abviser.com
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Laboratory Studies
Category: Laboratory StudiesWhen warfarin is prescribed, therapy is often initiated while the patient is still on heparin. This overlapping is done purposefully so that when the heparin is D/C, the blood levels of warfarin have been allowed to achieve therapeutic levels.
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