Nursing 3920A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Psychoactive Drug, Shortness Of Breath, Dsm-5
24 Apr 2018
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Personal meaning: anxiety disorders & post-traumatic stress disorder. Halter, m. j. , varcarolis, e. m. , & shoemaker, n. c. (2014). In c. l. pollard, s. l. ray & m. haase (eds. ), canadian psychiatric mental health nursing: a clinical approach (1st canadian ed. , pp. Anxiety: universal human experience and is the most basic of emotions, a feeling of apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty, or dread resulting from a real or perceived threat, vague sense of dread related to an unspecified or unknown danger. Peplau had a profound role in shaping the specialty of psychiatric mental health nursing: anxiety consists of four levels: mild, moderate, severe, panic. Identifi(cid:272)ation of the patient"s spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) level of an(cid:454)iet(cid:455) is essential (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause interventions are (cid:271)ased on the degree of anxiety. Mild anxiety: occurs in the normal experience of everyday living, allows an individual to perceive reality in sharp focus. Sees, hears, and grasps more information, and problem solving becomes more effective.
