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Echopraxia

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involuntary imitation of another’s movements or gestures

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Alogia

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decreased production of speech

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Avolition

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diminished goal directed activity

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Anhedonia

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inability to feel pleasure or joy from life

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Ansognosia

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poor insight

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Flat affect

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restricted range of intensity of emotions

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Agoraphobia

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fear or being in a place or situation where one might not be able to escape

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Ambivalence

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a state of conflicting opposing ideas, attitudes, or emotions

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Autonomy

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capacity to make decisions and act on them

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Battering

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striking someone repeatedly with violent blows

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Boundary crossing

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A transient, brief excursion across a professional boundary. Action may be inadvertent, unconscious, or even purposeful and done to meet a certain therapeutic need

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Boundary violation

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situation resulting when there is confusion between the needs of the nurse and those of the pt. Allows nurse to meet his or her own needs rather than the pts

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Classical conditioning

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learned associative behavioural stimulus-response developed by Pavlov

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Compassion fatigue

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the emotional and physical burn-out that may interfere with caring

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Competence

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The degree to which a pt possesses the cognitive ability to understand and process information

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Compulsion

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Repetitive behaviours or mental acts that a person feels driven to do in response to an obsession

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Confrontation

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a technique used to help the patient take note of a behaviour and then examine it

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Conservation

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the ability to recognize that despite something changing shape, it maintains the characteristics that make it what it is (eg. clay)

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Continuum of care

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integrated system of settings, services, health care clinicians, and care levels spanning illness to wellness states

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Countertransference

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occurs when the hcp develops a positive or negative emotional response to the pt’s transference

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Cultural competence

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a set of congruent behaviours, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enables that system, agency or those professionals to work effectively in multi-cultural situations with diverse social groups

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Cultural congruence

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distance between the cultural competence characteristics of health care organizations and the pts perception of those same competence characteristics as they relate to the pts cultural needs

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DBT

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a form of cognitive behavioural therapy that helps individuals take responsibility for their own behaviours and problems; teaches individuals how to cope with conflict, negative feelings, and impulsivity, thereby enhancing capabilities and improving motivation, leading to decreased negative behaviour

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Enculturation

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process by which a person learns the requirements of a culture by which he or her is surrounded, and acquired values and behaviours that are appropriate or necessary in that culture

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Erotomanic
delusions that another person of higher stature is in love with you
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Justice
ethical principle focusing on fair and equal tx
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Kleptomania
recurrent failure to resist the impulse to steal
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Lobbying
an action undertaken by an individual or group to influence the thinking and decision making of an elected official at any level of government
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Mania
mental disturbances such as elevated mood, grandiosity, difficulty with attention span
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Melancholia
term used by hippocrates to describe sad or dark moods noted in pt's with depression
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Milieu management
the provision and assurance of a therapeutic environment that promotes a healing experience for the pt
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NMS
a syndrome here the pt displays muscle rigidity, high fever, unstable BP, diaphoresis, pallor, delirium, tachycardia, tachypnea, and rapid deterioration of mental status
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Nonmalificence
ethical principal on causing no harm
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Obesity
BMI greater than or equal to 30
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Obsessions
recurrent and persistence thoughts, impulses, or images experienced at some time during the disturbance that are intrusive and inappropriate, causing marked anxiety or stress
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Operant conditioning
addresses consequences and the modification of future behaviour based upon the reinforcement, punishment, or extinction associated with the consequence
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Overweight
BMI greater than or equal to 25
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Paraphilias
sexual disorders involving recurrent, intense sexual urges, fantasies, or behaviours involving unusual objects, activities, or situations
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PICA
persistent eating of one or more nonnutritive substances for a period of at least one month
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Polypharmacy
the use of multiple meds. Often happens with the elderly population.
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Primary prevention
interventions that delay or avoid the onset of illness
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Protective factors
characteristics, variables, or traits that guard against or buffer the effects of risk factors
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Pyromania
fire-setting for pleasure and gratification
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Quality of life
a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not the absence of disease or infirmity
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Rapport
nursing actions that alleviate an ill person's distress; a concern or active interest in others; an accepting, non-judgemental health care approach
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Resilience
the process of adapting well int eh face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or even significant sources of stress
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Risk factors
issues that increase an individuals chance for developing an illness
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secondary prevention
interventions focusing on tx including identifying persons with disorders and standardizing tx for disorders
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self-awareness
the process developing an understanding of ones own values, beliefs, thoughts, feelings, reactions, motivations, biases, strengths, and limitations and recognizing their effects on others
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self-efficacy
the beliefs persons hold about their ability to accomplish something and about what the outcomes will be
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Senile dementia
memory loss as a part of aging
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Serotonin syndrome
a life-threatening situation due to an overactivity or serotonin or disruption I the neurotransmitter's metabolism manifested by fever, sweating, agitation, tachycardia, hypotension, and hyperreflexia
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Splitting
viewing reality in polarized categories
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Tertiary prevention
interventions focusing on maintenance including decreasing relapse or recurrence, and providing rehabilitation
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Transference
a psychodynamic term to describe the pt's emotional response to the health care provider
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Utilitarianism
ethical theory in which decisions should be based on producing the best outcome or the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people
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Malingering
the deliberate creation of fake or overstated symptoms, motivated by incentive (eg.missing work or attaining meds) - can be associated with antisocial personality disorder
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Delirium
acute disruption in consciousness and cognitive function
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Dementia
a group of conditions that involve multiple deficits in memory and cognition

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