Role of a Psychiatric Nurse Flashcards
A nurse is at first a stranger to the client. The client is also a stranger to the nurse.
The Stranger
Peplau (1991) States:
Respect and positive interest accorded a stranger is at first nonpersonal and includes the same ordinary courtesies that are accorded to a new guest who has been brought into any situation. This principle implies:
- accepting the patient as he is;
- treating the patient as an emotionally able stranger and relating to him on this basis until evidence shows him to be otherwise.
According to Peplau, “a ________ ________ provides specific answers to questions usually formulated with relation to a larger problem”
resource person
The nurse explains, in language that the client can understand, information related to the client’s health care.
The Resource Person
In this role, the nurse identifies learning needs and provides information required by the client or family to improve the health situation.
The Teacher
According to Peplau, “democratic leadership in nursing situations implies that the client will be permitted to be an active participant in designing nursing plans for him”
The Leader
Clients may view the nurse as a mother figure, a sibling, a former teacher, or another nurse who has provided care in the past.
The Surrogate
Peplau states: “Counseling in nursing has to do with helping the patient to remember and to understand fully what is happening to him in the present situation, so thet the feeling will be integrated with, rather that dissociated from, other experiences in life”
The Counselor
______________described the instrument for delivery of the process of interpersonal nursing as the therapeutic use of self, which she defined as “the ability to use one’s personality consciously and in full awareness in an attempt to establish relatedness and to structure nursing interventions.”
Travelbee (1971)
True or False
One of the requirements in the therapeutic use of self is the nurse must have a great deal of self-awareness and self-understanding; that he or she has arrived at a philosophical belief about life, death, and the overall human condition.
True
True or False
One of the requirements in the therapeutic use of self is the nurse must understand that the ability and extent to which one can effectively help others in time of need is strongly influenced by this external value system - a combination of intellect and emotions.
False
The nurse must understand that the ability and extent to which one can effectively help others in time of need is strongly influenced by this internal value system-a combination of intellect and emotions.
is a representation of the self and a tool that can be used to increase self-awareness.
The Johari Window
Known to others: Known to self;
The open or public self
Known to others: Unknown to self;
The unknowing self
Unknown to others: Known to self;
The private self
