This document defines and describes several key concepts related to nursing: acute confusion and delirium involves abnormalities in thought, perception, and awareness; spiritual distress is a disturbance in one's belief system that disrupts their life principle; powerlessness is feeling a lack of control over aspects that impact well-being; self-concept encompasses one's self-perception and identity; and coping mechanisms are conscious efforts to solve problems and manage stress.
This document defines and describes several key concepts related to nursing: acute confusion and delirium involves abnormalities in thought, perception, and awareness; spiritual distress is a disturbance in one's belief system that disrupts their life principle; powerlessness is feeling a lack of control over aspects that impact well-being; self-concept encompasses one's self-perception and identity; and coping mechanisms are conscious efforts to solve problems and manage stress.
This document defines and describes several key concepts related to nursing: acute confusion and delirium involves abnormalities in thought, perception, and awareness; spiritual distress is a disturbance in one's belief system that disrupts their life principle; powerlessness is feeling a lack of control over aspects that impact well-being; self-concept encompasses one's self-perception and identity; and coping mechanisms are conscious efforts to solve problems and manage stress.
This document defines and describes several key concepts related to nursing: acute confusion and delirium involves abnormalities in thought, perception, and awareness; spiritual distress is a disturbance in one's belief system that disrupts their life principle; powerlessness is feeling a lack of control over aspects that impact well-being; self-concept encompasses one's self-perception and identity; and coping mechanisms are conscious efforts to solve problems and manage stress.
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Lipa, Fritz Anne O.
July 09, 2015
BSN4
ACUTE CONFUSION AND DELIRUM
- Is a clinical syndrome which is difficult to define exactly but involves abnormalities of though, perception and level of awareness. SPIRITUAL DISTRESS - Is a disturbance in a persons belief system. A disruption in the life principle that pervades a persons entire being and that integrates and transcends ones biological and psychological nature. POWERLESSNESS - A state of mind wherein people feel they have no control over or effect on aspects or occurrence which impact their wellbeing, personal lives, or the culture wherein they live. SELF- CONCEPT - It encompasses all that you know about yourself. One s self- perception, also called as self- construction, self- identity, self- perspective or self- structure. COPING MECHANISM - Coping strategies or the coping skills. This is expanding conscious effort to solve personal and interpersonal problem and seeking to master, minimize or to tolerate stress and conflicts.