NSE 13A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Simulated Patient, Nursing Assessment, Active Listening
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Setting: nurse at a long term care facility. Client: agnes admitted to a ltc for short term to determine if she is able to return home. Objectives: establishing trust, active listening skills, empathy, assessing client"s status. Capacity to feel, think, express emotions, and behave in ways that enhance personal capacity to manage challenges, adapt successfully to a range of demands and enjoy life. Mental disorder, mental illness: diagnosis based on the dsm-v, alternations in thoughts, experience, emotion causing distress and impaired functioning"s, issues related to stigma. Focus on the health and illness experiences. Can see the different expressions of their feelings. Symbolizes the increases in changes as disorders change. Behaviour: mood and affect (very important, speech, level of consciousness. Cognition and cognitive functioning: consciousness, orientation, memory, attention and concentration, comprehension and abstract reasoning. Thinking: perception, content, process, insight, judgment. Integral subset of the comprehensives mental health assessment.
