NUR 403 Terminology Worksheet: EXAM 1 – Topics 1-3
1. General Adaptation Syndrome: What is it and components?
2. Lazarus: Primary Appraisal & Secondary Appraisal: How do they differ?
3. Therapeutic Communication Strategies: Examples and use
4. Empathy: What is it? Why is it important?
5. Mental status exam: What are the components?
6. Biopsychosocial Assessment: Components?
7. Defense mechanisms: What are some common ones and how to apply them.
8. Anxiety: What is its role? How is it involved in defense mechanisms?
9. Homeostasis: What is it?
10. Transference: What is it?
11. Countertransference: What is it?
12. Hildegard Peplau: Theory and impact.
13. Interpersonal Theory: Theory and application.
14. Maslows Hierarchy of Needs: Know the levels and application.
15. Erikson’s Developmental Stages: Be familiar with tasks at each stage and application.
16. Focus of inpatient hospitalization
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17. Stigma: What is the impact?
18. Advocacy: Nurses role.
19. Ethical Principles: Autonomy, Veracity, Beneficence, Non-maleficence, Justice)
20. Right to least restrictive environment: What does this mean?
21. Competence in mental health
22. Tort Law
23. Involuntary Status
24. Aggression & Cycle of Aggression
25. Priority Nursing Interventions: Potential Aggression
26. Self-Awareness Model
27. Debriefing
28. Therapeutic Milieu
29. Neuroanatomy (Limbic System, Hippocampus, Amygdala, Limbic midbrain nuclei, Frontal Lobe)
30. Executive functioning
31. Neuroplasticity: What is it and implications?
32. Neurotransmitters: Know the basic ones involved in mental health and their roles.
33. Synapses: Why relevant in mental health?
34. Receptors: Why relevant in mental health?
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35. Metabolism & excretion considerations in psychopharmacology
36. DSM-V Diagnostic Criteria Schizophrenia
37. Phases of Symptom Development (Schizophrenia)
38. Positive symptoms of Psychosis
39. Negative symptoms of Psychosis
40. Priority Nursing Interventions: Psychosis and related disorders
41. Disordered Water Balance: Why is it relevant?
42. First Generation Antipsychotics: General considerations.
43. Second Generation Antipsychotics: General considerations.
44. Extrapyramidal Symptoms (Dystonic Reaction, Akathisia, Parkinsonism)
45. Tardive Dyskinesia
46. Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
47. Anticholinergic Crisis
48. Agranulocytosis: What is it? Why do you need to know about it?
49. Anticholinergic Medication: Why relevant?
50. Beta Blockers: Why relevant?
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