NSE 13A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4,6: Nipissing District, Mental Status Examination, Hiv
27 Mar 2017
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Mental health: 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, finding a balance b/w. Developing resilience, flexibility, self-accusation: ability to cope with normal stressors, work productively, contribute to community, 20% canadians, 1/3 expected to experience. Influential factors: emotional problems, social network, self knowledge, self control, common sense. Mental disorder: medical term for mental illness, deals w/ level of impairment distress, depicted as conditions of co-occurring symptoms that may involve alterations in. Emotion (serious enough to cause distress and impair functioning: sometimes lead to self-destruction, suicide, multiple factors. Live events: stigma and associated cycle of alienation/discrimination = major detriment. Affect ability to seek help, obtain support in community: nurse must self monitor for stigmatizing behaviours and beliefs. Mental health assessment: purpose: u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d the pt. "s. Problems and deficits in daily living strengths and resources in relation to mental health.
