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Nursing Fundamentals · 2nd edition (2e)
Nursing Skills · 2nd edition (2e)
Nursing Pharmacology · 2nd edition (2e)
Nursing Mental Health and Community Concepts · 2nd edition (2e)
Nursing Management and Professional Concepts · 2nd edition (2e)
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Health Alterations · 1st edition
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Traumatic circumstances experienced during childhood such as abuse, neglect, or growing up in a household with violence, mental illness, substance use, incarceration, or divorce.
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Limits that we set as individuals that define our levels of comfort when interacting with others. Personal boundaries include limits in physical, sexual, intellectual, emotional, sexual, and financial areas of our lives.
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A complex context of knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors that provide structure to specific ethnic, racial, religious, geographic, or social groups. Cultural humility: A lifelong process of self-reflection and self-critique whereby individuals actively engage in learning about different cultural perspectives while acknowledging the limitations of their own knowledge.
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Behavior that violates social norms or cultural expectations because one’s culture determines what is “normal.”
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Psychological and/or physical pain.
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Disturbances in a person’s thinking, emotional regulation, or behavior that reflects significant dysfunction in psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning.
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Identification of physical environment features that could be used to attempt suicide in clients identified as at a high risk for suicide.
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A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
— Source: Open RN Nursing Mental Health and Community Concepts 2e · CC BY 4.0