Glossary Terms

Communicating both verbally and nonverbally that we are interested in what the other person is saying while also actively verifying our understanding with them.

Grief that begins immediately after the death of a loved one and includes the separation response and response to stress.

Coping strategies including problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping.

Associated with compulsive or uncontrolled use of one or more substances.

A mnemonic for the components of the nursing process: Assessment, Diagnosis, Outcomes Identification, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.

Mimic the effects of the body’s natural SNS stimulation.

Block SNS receptors.

Care that offers people with dementia and other chronic illnesses the opportunity to be social and to participate in activities in a safe environment, while also giving their caregivers the opportunity to work, run errands, or take a much-needed break.

Adults who have a physical or mental condition that impairs their ability to care for their own needs.

Legal documents that direct care when the patient can no longer speak from themselves, including the living will and the health care power of attorney.

Traumatic experiences during childhood such as neglect; abuse; or witnessing violence, substance abuse, mental illness, divorce, or imprisonment of a family member.

Traumatic circumstances experienced during childhood such as abuse, neglect, or growing up in a household with violence, mental illness, substance use, incarceration, or divorce.

A client’s expression of emotion.

Prejudice or discrimination against people based on their age. Ageism has a negative impact on physical and menatl health.

Intense fear of two or more of the situations such as use of public transportation, being in open spaces, being in enclosed spaces, standing in line, being in a crows, or being outside their home.

Extremely low white blood cell count.

Motor restlessness.

The inability to describe emotions with how one is feeling.

Reduction or poverty in speech.

An irreversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and eventually the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. It is the most common cause of dementia.

Lack of energy.

The inability to experience or even imagine any pleasant emotion.

A condition where people avoid food, severely restrict food, or eat very small quantities of only certain foods.

The inability to recognize that one is ill.

Drugs that block the effects of PNS receptors.

Grief before a loss, associated with diagnosis of an acute, chronic, and/or terminal illness experienced by the client, family, or caregivers.

A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others since age 15.

A universal human experience that includes feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty, or dread resulting from a real or perceived threat.

A lack of feelings, emotions, interests or concerns.

Lack of interest in events that one previously found pleasurable.

A language disorder that affects a person's ability to express and understand written and spoken language

Decreased desire for social interaction.

Intentionally putting another person in reasonable apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive contact.

The process of adopting or conforming to the practices, habits, and norms of a cultural group.

The capacity to determine one’s own actions through independent choice, including demonstration of competence.

A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation.

A condition where individuals limit the amount or type of food eaten.

Reduced motivation or goal-directed behavior.

Intentional causation of harmful or offensive contact with another person without that person’s consent.

Interventions are implemented to encourage individuals to change habits or behaviors by using health promotion strategies.

The bioethical principle of benefiting others by preventing harm, removing harmful conditions, or affirmatively acting to benefit another or others, often going beyond what is required by law.

A behavioral intervention that uses books to help children express feelings in a supportive environment, gain insight into feelings and behavior, and learn new ways to cope with difficult situations.

Defined as a pattern of alcohol consumption that brings the blood alcohol concentration level to 0.08% or more.

Eating large amounts of food in a short period of time with a feeling of a loss of control.

A condition where people lose control over their eating and have recurring episodes of eating unusually large amounts of food.

Any form of treatment for mental disorders that attempts to alter physiological functioning, including drug therapies, electroconvulsive therapy, and psychosurgery.

The most severe bipolar disorder with at least one manic episode; most individuals experience additional hypomanic and depressive episodes.

A pattern of depressive episodes and hypomanic episodes, but individuals have never experienced a full-blown manic episodes typical of Bipolar I Disorder.

A significant warning from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that alerts the public and health care providers to serious side effects, such as injury or death.

An FDA warning for prescription drugs that highlights potential life-threatening effects and is used to alert healthcare professionals and the public to risks.

Diminished range and intensity.

A state specific licensing and regulatory body that sets standards for nursing care and issues nursing licenses to qualified candidates.

A perception that one's own body is significantly different from its actual configuration.

A person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters.

A pervasive pattern of instability of personal relationships, self-image, and affect with significant impulsivity.

Limits that we set as individuals that define our identity and promote a sense of autonomy and feeling in control of what we want and don’t want.

Impaired ability to sense where one’s influence ends and another person’s begins.

Slowed movement.

Quick therapeutic techniques used to initiate change in individuals with unhealthy behaviors.

A condition where people have recurrent and frequent episodes of binge eating.

A functional determination that an individual is or is not capable of making a medical decision within a given situation.

A person who has taken responsibility for all or part of an individual's care.

A state of unresponsiveness due to a person’s mental state.

Substances that include epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine and are responsible for the body's “fight-or-flight” response.

The patient’s primary reasons for seeking care.

Drugs that stimulate nicotinic and muscarinic receptors.

Speaking with many unnecessary or tedious details without getting to the point of the conversation.

Rights, responsibilities, and legal relationships between private citizens and involves compensation to the injured party.

Stringing words together that rhyme without logical association and do not convey rational meaning.

Interventions are delivered one-on-one to individuals in a direct care setting.

A state of reduced awareness to stimuli.

The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.

A type of psychotherapy that helps a person recognize distorted/negative thinking with the goal of changing thought and behaviors to respond to changes in a more positive manner.

A term used to describe impairment in mental processes that drive how an individual understands and acts in the world, affecting the acquisition of information and knowledge.

Refers to problems in attention, concentration, and memory.

A state of unarousable unresponsiveness, where vigorous noxious stimuli may not elicit reflex motor responses.

A term commonly used in the acute care setting to describe the shift in care that occurs when the patients and medical team’s goals shift from curative intervention to symptom control, pain relief, and quality of life. However, there is no formal admission to hospice or palliative care that can impact insurance coverage.

An auditory hallucination that instructs a patient to act in specific ways from innocuous to life-threatening

A summary statement resulting from analysis of the data collected from a community health needs assessment.

Systematic process to identify and analyze community health needs and assets in order to prioritize these needs, plan, and act upon significant unmet community health needs.

A state of chronic and continuous self-sacrifice and/or prolonged exposure to difficult situations that affect a health care professional’s physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being

A legal term related to the degree of cognitive ability an individual has to make decisions or carry out specific acts.

When interference in the grieving process occurs, leading to a prolonged, more intense grieving. There is often preoccupation with the circumstances of the loss, which may manifest as feelings of guilt regarding the situation around the loss.

Repetitive behaviors that a person with OCD feels the urge to do in response to an obsessive thought.

Ongoing pattern of aggression toward others with serious violations of rules and social norms at home, school, and with peers.

The right of an individual to have personal, identifiable medical information, referred to as protected health information, kept private.

Consistency of verbal and nonverbal communication.

Substances regulated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

Recovery-oriented treatment programs for people with first-episode psychosis, an early stage of schizophrenia.

Cognitive and behavioral efforts made to master, tolerate, or reduce external and internal demands and conflicts.

An action, series of actions, or a thought process used in meeting a stressful or unpleasant situation or in modifying one’s reaction to such a situation.

A tendency for the examiner to displace (transfer) their own feelings onto the client and then these feelings may influence the client.

Powerful urges to use a substance due to many factors including the substance's association with pleasurable feelings and environmental stimuli that activate the dopamine system.

A system of laws that punishes individuals who commit crimes.

The inability to cope or adapt to a stressor.

The quality of different cultures or traditions in a region.

A humble and respectful attitude toward individuals of other cultures that pushes one to challenge their own cultural biases, realize they cannot know everything about other cultures, and approach learning about other cultures as a life-long goal and process.

A set of beliefs, attitudes, and practices shared by a group of people or community that is accepted, followed, and passed down to other members of the group.

A disorder defined by periods of hypomanic symptoms and periods of depressive symptoms lasting for at least two years (1 year in children and adolescents).

When an individual makes negative, malicious, and false remarks about another person to damage their reputation.

The parties named in the lawsuit.

Reaction patterns used by individuals to protect themselves from anxiety that arises from stress and conflict.

An onset of an abnormal mental state, often with fluctuating levels of consciousness, disorientation, irritability, and hallucinations.

A rapid-onset, fluctuating disturbance of attention and cognition that is sometimes associated with hallucinations.

Fixed, false belief not held by cultural peers and persisting in the face of objective contradictory evidence.

A group of symptoms that lead to a decline in mental function severe enough to disrupt daily life caused by a group of conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, frontal-temporal dementia, and Lewy body disease.

When a person suddenly stops using a drug, their body goes through withdrawal, a group of physical and mental symptoms that can range from mild to life-threatening.

A pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submission and clinging behavior and fears of separation.

An episode where the person experiences a depressed mood (feeling sad, irritable, empty) or a loss of pleasure or interest in activities, for most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks.

Physical, social, and cognitive changes that occur continuously throughout one’s life.

A group of conditions with physical, learning, language, or behavioral impairments.

Observing for signs of developmental delays.

Formal questionnaires or checklists based on research that ask questions about a child’s development including language, movement, thinking, behavior, and emotions.

Behavior that violates social norms or cultural expectations because one's culture determines what is "normal."

A type of cognitive behavioral therapy that provides clients with new skills to manage painful emotions and decrease conflict in relationships.

Grief over any loss that is not validated or recognized. Those affected by this type of grief do not feel the freedom to openly acknowledge their grief.

Hair, clothes, or hygiene appears untidy, disordered, unkempt, or messy.

A break in how a person’s mind handles information, causing disconnection from their thoughts, feelings, memories, and surroundings.

The experience of detachment or feeling as if one is outside one's body with loss of memory.

Referring to the client’s attention being easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli.

Psychological and/or physical pain.

A medical order that instructs health care professionals not to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

A medical order that instructs healthcare personnel not to perform CPR

When medication is redirected from its intended destination for personal use, sale, or distribution to others.

Difficulty with math.

Disturbances in a person’s thinking, emotional regulation, or behavior that reflects significant dysfunction in psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning.

Difficulty with writing.

Uncontrolled, involuntary movement.

Difficulty with reading.

A state of unease or dissatisfaction.

Exhibiting depression.

Involuntary contractions of muscles of the extremities, face, neck, abdomen, pelvis, or larynx in either sustained or intermittent patterns that lead to abnormal movements or postures.

Pathological repetition of another person’s words.

Mimicking movements of another person.

A medical treatment reserved for patients with severe major depression who have not responded to medications, psychotherapy, or other treatments. It involves a brief electrical stimulation of the brain while the patient is under anesthesia.

Extreme thinness.

Individuals are admitted to psychiatric facilities when they are deemed likely to harm themselves or others.

Adaptive coping strategies such as mindfulness, meditation, and yoga; using humor and jokes; seeking spiritual or religious pursuits; engaging in physical activity or breathing exercises; and seeking social support.

Harm to a child’s psychological or intellectual functioning, which is exhibited by severe anxiety, depression, withdrawal, or aggression.

Unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment.

Interventions are implemented for the entire community when laws, policies, physical environments, or community structures influence a community’s health.

Identification of physical environment features that could be used to attempt suicide in clients identifed as at a high risk for suicide.

A pathologically elevated sense of well-being.

Normal affect and mood with a wide range of emotion appropriate for the situation.

Spending time in the very situation that triggers compulsions (for example, touching dirty objects) but then being prevented from undertaking the usual resulting compulsion (handwashing).

Confronting the fears underlying an anxiety disorder to help people engage in activities they have been avoiding.

Difficulty communicating thoughts using language due to not knowing the words to use, not knowing how to put words together, or not being able to express the words.

Refers to akathisia (agitation, distress, and restlessness), rigidity, bradykinesia (slowed movement), tremor, and dystonia (involuntary contractions of muscles of the extremities, face, neck, abdomen, pelvis, or larynx in either sustained or intermittent patterns that lead to abnormal movements or postures).

Refer to akathisia (agitation, distress, and restlessness), rigidity, bradykinesia (slowed movement), tremor, and dystonia (involuntary contractions of muscles of the extremities, face, neck, abdomen, pelvis, or larynx in either sustained or intermittent patterns that lead to abnormal movements or postures).

Involuntary or uncontrollable movements. tremors, and muscle contractions.

An act of restraining another person and causing that person to be confined in a bounded area.

Refers to the patterns of interactions among relatives, their roles and relationships, and the various factors that shape their interactions.

A type of psychotherapy where parents of adolescents with anorexia nervosa assume responsibility for feeding their child.

Psychotherapy that focuses on psychoeducation, communication enhancement training, and problem-solving skills.

Illegal and unauthorized use of money, benefits, and property that belong to an individual for the use of someone other than the individual.

Treat positive symptoms of schizophrenia and have several potential adverse effects due to their tight binding to dopamine receptors.

No emotional expression.

A state where the client frequently shifts from one topic to another with rapid speech, making it seem fragmented.

Systematic method of data collection through small-group discussions led by a facilitator.

An intentional tort that occurs when an individual is deceived for personal gain.

Feelings of unease about their incongruent maleness or femaleness.

How an individual presents one’s gender to the outside world, but it does not necessarily correlate with their gender identity.

An individual's innate sense of being male, female, androgenous, nonbinary, or a preference to reject gender designation.

Social constructs based on masculinity and femininity that embody society's expectations of attitudes, behaviors, and personality traits based on one’s biological sex.

Excessive anxiety and worry, occurring on more days than not for at least six months, about a number of events or activities.

A state of false attribution to the self of great ability, knowledge, importance or worth, identity, prestige, power, accomplishment.

An emotional response to loss including feelings of loneliness, sadness, guilt, regret, anger, and peace that affects survivors physically, psychologically, socially, and spiritually.

A type of psychotherapy that brings people with similar disorders together in a supportive environment to learn how others cope in similar situations.

False sensory perceptions not associated with real external stimuli that can include any of the five senses (auditory, visual, gustatory, olfactory and tactile).

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

A legal document that identifies a trusted individual to serve as a decision maker for health issues when the patient is no longer able to speak for themselves.

Health differences that are linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantages.

Everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

Avoidable differences in health status seen within and between communities.

Federal regulations to ensure the privacy and protection of personal records and information.

Local groups from all parts of the community work together to prevent disease and make healthy living options accessible.

A female consuming 8 or more drinks per week and a male consuming 15 or more standard drinks per week, or either gender binge drinking on 5 or more days in the past 30 days.

A pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking.

Threats or acts of life-threatening harm towards another person.

Patient- and family-centered care that begins after treatment of disease is stopped because the condition is not survivable. The focus is on symptom management and quality of life.

Individuals who are forced to work or provide commercial sex against their will in legal business settings and underground markets.

Acute rise and significantly elevated blood pressure, typically over 180/120 mm Hg, that causes acute end-organ damage such as stroke, myocardial infarction, or acute kidney damage.

Episodes similar to symptoms of a manic episode, but they are less severe and do not cause significant impairment in social or occupational functioning or require hospitalization.

False beliefs that coincidental events relate to oneself.

Misperceptions of real stimuli.

A limited ability to engage in activities of daily living.

The practice of providing equal access to opportunities and resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized, such as those having physical or mental disabilities or belonging to other minority groups.

Lack of alignment between response and actions.

Interventions that target individuals who have a high probability of developing disease.

An event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life-threatening and can have lasting adverse effects on their functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.

The fundamental right of an individual to receive information about the risks, benefits, and alternatives in order to make a healthcare decision.

The client's ability to identify the existence of a problem and to have an understanding of its nature.

Psychotherapy that selects theoretical models or techniques from various therapeutic schools to suit the client’s particular problems.

A diagnostic term that describes intellectual and adaptive functioning deficits identified during the developmental period.

Wrongs that the defendant knew (or should have known) would be caused by their actions.

Psychotherapy that emphasizes the importance of establishing stable daily routines such as sleeping, waking up, working, and eating meals.

The expression of more than one cultural or subcultural identity.

Structured conversations with individuals who have experience, knowledge, or understanding about a particular topic or issue.

Abuse or aggression that occurs in a romantic relationship.

A disturbance in behavior or mental function during or after the consumption of a substance.

An individual admitted to a psychiatric facility who is diagnosed with a mental illness, pose a danger to themselves or others, are gravely disabled (e.g., unable to provide themselves basic necessities like food, clothing, and shelter), or are in need of treatment but their mental illness prevents voluntary help-seeking behaviors.

A moral obligation to act on the basis of equality and equity and a standard linked to fairness for all in society.

Interviews conducted with people in key positions in the community and have specific areas of knowledge and experience.

A rapid change in emotional responses, mood, or affect that are inappropriate for the moment or the situation.

Growth of fine hair all over the body.

Delayed response.

Difficulty in one or more areas of learning, even when their overall intelligence or motivation are not affected.

Therapy for seasonal affective disorder (SAD) that involves sitting in front of a light therapy box that emits a very bright light. It usually requires 20 minutes or more per day, typically first thing in the morning, during the winter months.

Elevated lithium levels resulting in diarrhea, vomiting, drowsiness, muscular weakness, and lack of coordination.

A legal document that describes the patient’s wishes if they are no longer able to speak for themselves due to injury, illness, or a persistent vegetative state.

Jumping from one idea to an unrelated idea in the same sentence. For example, the client might state, “I like to dance, my feet are wet.

The absence of a possession/person or future possession with the response of grief.

The idea that one can influence the outcome of specific events by doing something that has no bearing on the circumstances.

Caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working.

Ineffective responses to stressors such as avoidance of the stressful condition, withdrawal from a stressful environment, disengagement from stressful relationships, and misuse of drugs and/or alcohol.

A specific term used for negligence committed by a health professional with a license.

Individuals required by state law to report suspected neglect or abuse of children, adults at risk, and the elderly.

A persistently elevated or irritable mood with abnormally increased energy lasting at least one week.

The treatment of an individual or group as less significant, or peripheral to the mainstream population

Used to prioritize the most urgent patient needs.

A state of well-being in which an individual realizes their own abilities, copes with the normal stresses of life, works productively, and contributes to their community.

A continuum of mental health, ranging from well-being to emotional problems to mental illness.

Serious changes in the way children typically learn, behave, or handle their emotions, causing distress and problems getting through the day.

A health condition involving changes in emotion, thinking, or behavior (or a combination of these) associated with emotional distress and problems functioning in social, work, or family activities.

An assessment of a client’s level of consciousness and orientation, appearance and general behavior, speech, motor activity, affect and mood, thought and perception, attitude and insight, and cognitive abilities.

A cluster of conditions that occur together, increasing the risk of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes.

A person who moves within their home country or outside of it to pursue work.

Nursing interventions used to assist health care consumers to make positive change and promote recovery in a therapeutic milieu.

The predominant emotion expressed by an individual.

A communication skill used to elicit and emphasize a client’s personal motivation for modifying behavior to promote health.

Movements of the body such as blinking, shrugging the shoulders, or jerking an arm.

The outward expression of loss based on cultural norms, customs, and practices.

An evidence-based approach to improve an individual’s physical, psychological, cognitive, behavioral, and social functioning when listening to music, singing, or moving to music.

A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for attention, and lack of empathy.

Refers to loss of motivation, disinterest or lack of enjoyment in daily activities, social withdrawal, difficulty showing emotions, and difficulty functioning normally.

When a parent or caretaker fails, refuses, or is unable, for reasons other than poverty, to provide the necessary care, food, clothing, or medical or dental care, which seriously endangers the physical health of the child.

The failure to exercise the ordinary care a reasonable person would use in similar circumstances.

A newly coined word that has meaning only to the person using it.

Progressive changes in the structure or function of the brain due to misue of alcohol or other substances.

A rare but fatal adverse effect that can occur at any time during treatment with antipsychotics. Signs include increased temperature, severe muscular rigidity, confusion, agitation, hyperreflexia, elevation in white blood cell count, elevate creatinine phosphokinase, elevated liver enzymes, myoglobinuria, and acute renal failure.

Chemical substances released at the end of a neuron by the arrival of an electrical impulse.

Intentional self-inflicted destruction of body tissue without suicidal intention and for purposes not socially sanctioned.

The bioethical principle that specifies a duty to do no harm and balances avoidable harm with benefits of good achieved.

Excessive behaviors related to gambling, viewing pornography, compulsive sexual activity, Internet gaming, overeating, shopping, overexercising, and overusing mobile phone technologies.

A legislative act that establishes regulations for nursing practice within that state and defines the scope of nursing practice.

A relationship that establishes trust and rapport with a specific purpose of facilitating therapeutic communication and engaging the client in decision-making regarding their plan of care.

A critical thinking model based on a systematic approach to patient-centered care.

Persistent thoughts, ideas, images, or impulses that are experienced as intrusive or inappropriate and result in anxiety, distress, or discomfort.

A common chronic disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and/or behaviors (compulsions) they feel the urge to repeat over and over.

A pervasive pattern or preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency.

A moderate reduction in the client's level of awareness so that mild to moderate stimuli do not awaken the client. When arousal does occur, the patient is slow to respond.

Powerful analgesics (such as morphine and oxycodone) prescribed to treat moderate to severe pain, as well as illicit drugs (such as heroin).

The mu, delta, and kappa receptors.

Act out persistently causing serious problems at home, in school, or with peers.

Measurable behavior demonstrated by the patient who is responsive to nursing interventions.

The biological response of the human body when too much of a substance is ingested.

Patient- and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life, anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering.

The most extreme level of anxiety that results in significantly dysregulated behavior.

Sudden periods of intense fear that come on quickly and reach their peak within minutes.

A condition characterized by delusions of persecution.

A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent.

Nurses who use their skills for church or parish members in paid or volunteer positions.

Depressive disorder that occurs during pregnancy.

A relatively stable pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that evolves over a person’s lifetime and is unique to each individual.

An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates significantly from the expectations of one’s culture.

Characteristics, whether considered good or bad, that make up one’s personality.

Intense fear or aversion to specific objects or situations.

Defined as injury inflicted on a child by other than accidental means.

Type of eating disorder in which an individual repeatedly eats things that are not considered food and have no nutritional value, such as paper, dirt, soap, hair, glue, or chalk.

A person bringing the lawsuit.

Encourages children to express feelings such as anxiety, self-doubt, and fear through their natural play.

Nicotinic and muscarinic receptors that are stimulated by acetylcholine (ACh).

Can develop in some people who have experienced a shocking, frightening, or dangerous event. It is natural to feel afraid during and after a traumatic situation, and the “fight-or-flight” stress response is a physiological reaction intended to protect a person from harm.

Feelings of extreme sadness, anxiety, and exhaustion that may make it difficult for mothers of newborns to complete daily care activities for themselves and/or for their babies.

Severe postpartum depression can cause delusions (thoughts or beliefs that are not true), hallucinations (seeing, hearing, or smelling things that are not there), mania (a high, elated mood that often seems out of touch with reality), paranoia, and confusion.

A conversation in which the client talks without stating anything related to the question or their speech in general is vague and meaningless.

Data collection that occurs through public forums, focus groups, interviews, windshield surveys, surveys, and participant observation.

Interventions aimed at susceptible populations or individuals to prevent disease from occurring.

Risk factor reduction strategies focused on social and environmental conditions that affect vulnerable populations.

Adaptive coping strategies that typically focus on seeking treatment such as counseling or cognitive behavioral therapy.

Individually identifiable health information, including demographic data, that relates to the individual’s past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition; the provision of health care to the individual; and the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to the individual.

Factors that help prevent substance use disorders from developing despite the risk factors that are present.

A legal document that describes a person’s preferences for future mental health treatment or names an individual to make treatment decisions for them if they are in a crisis and unable to make decisions.

A nursing speciality in which registered nurses with a bachelor’s degree, two years of full-time work, and 30 hours of continuing education can receive board certification.

A condition of purposeless, non goal-directed activity.

A condition of extremely slow physical movements, slumped posture, or slow speech patterns.

Conditions where there is a loss of contact with reality.

A component of the nursing assessment process that obtains additional subjective data to detect risks and identify treatment opportunities and resources.

A variety of treatment techniques that help an individual identify and change troubling emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.

All generally accepted and evidence-based methods of brief or long-term therapy, including individual therapy, group therapy, marital or couple therapy, and family therapy.

Include hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders, disorganized speech, and alterations in behaviors.

Medications that affect the mind, emotions, and behavior.

Gatherings where large groups of citizens discuss important issues at well-publicized locations and times.

Nurses who work across various settings in the community such as government agencies, community-based centers, shelters, and vaccine distribution sites.

Eating large amounts of food in a short time followed by vomiting or using laxatives or diuretics to eliminate what was consumed.

Actions taken to protect individuals from medical interventions that are likely to cause more harm than good and to suggest interventions that are ethically acceptable.

Fast moving and often repetitive thought patterns that can be overwhelming.

At least four mood episodes associated with bipolar disorder occurring in a 12-month period.

Difficulty understanding what others say due to not hearing the words (hearing loss) or not understanding the meaning of the words.

A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.

A syndrome in which individuals exhibit hypophosphatemia, sodium and fluid imbalances; changes in glucose, protein, and fat metabolism; thiamine deficiency; hypokalemia; and hypomagnesaemia.

The return to substance use after a significant period of abstinence.

Individuals with severe substance use disorders can overcome their disorder with effective treatment and regain health and social function.

Uses a magnet to activate the brain.

The ability to rise above circumstances or meet challenges with fortitude.

Supports that lessen the risk for traumatic stress disorders, such as supportive family and friends, support groups, and strong coping skills.

The ability to cope with adversity and recover emotionally from a traumatic event.

Healthy balance of SNS and PNS stimulation.

Care provided at home (by a volunteer or paid service) or in a care setting, such as adult day care or residential facility, that allows the caregiver to take a much-needed break.

Devices used in health care settings to prevent patients from causing harm to themselves or others when alternative interventions are not effective.

Being responsible for providing competent nursing care.

Obsessional thinking involving excessive, repetitive thoughts that interfere with other forms of mental activity.

A set of actions that can help lower the risk of being hurt by an abusive partner.

A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings.

Mental illness characterized by periods of psychosis for at least six months.

A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with and reduced capacity for close relationships, as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior.

Nurses who provide direct care for children with chronic health problems and administer medications prescribed during school hours.

A type of depression causing symptoms during the fall and winter months when there is less sunlight and usually improves with the arrival of spring.

The confinement of a patient in a locked room or an area from which they cannot exit on their own.

Treat both positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.

Analyzing previously collected data to determine community needs.

The early detection of disease and targets healthy-appearing individuals with subclinical forms of disease.

Interventions that target individuals or groups with greater risk factors (and perhaps fewer protective factors) than the broader population.

People fail to speak in specific social situations despite having normal language skills.

Being very afraid when away from parents or caregivers.

Fears about being separated from people to whom they are attached.

Mental illness that causes disabling functional impairment that substantially interferes with one or more major life activities.

A medical emergency that can occur in clients taking medications that affect serotonin levels.

Sexual intercourse or sexual touching of a child; sexual exploitation; sex trafficking of a child; forced viewing of sexual activity; or permitting, allowing, or encouraging a child to engage in prostitution.

Individual's assessment of their sexual orientation.

Individual's pattern of physical, emotional, and romantic arousal (including fantasies, activities, and behaviors) and the gender(s) of persons to whom an individual is physically or sexually attracted.

A mnemonic for anticholinergic side effects.

Alpha-1, Alpha-2, Beta-1, and Beta-2 receptors.

Marked fear or anxiety about one or more social situations in which the individual is exposed to possible scrutiny by others.

Conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age.

Stated and unstated rules of their society.

The characteristics of a person or a community that affect their capacity to anticipate, confront, repair, and recover from the effects of a disaster.

A mnemonic for effective nonverbal communication.

Psychological stress is expressed through physical concerns such as headaches and stomachaches.

A sense of connection to something larger than oneself and typically involves a search for meaning and purpose in life.

A pattern of unstable and intense personal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.

Defined as 14 grams (0.6 ounces) of pure alcohol.

Authoritative statements of the actions and behaviors that all registered nurses, regardless of role, population, specialty, and setting, are expected to perform competently.

12 additional standards that describe a nurse’s professional behavior, including activities related to ethics, advocacy, respectful and equitable practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, scholarly inquiry, quality of practice, professional practice evaluation, resource stewardship, and environmental health.

A cluster of negative attitudes and beliefs that motivates the general public to fear, reject, avoid, and discriminate against people with conditions like mental illness.

The body’s physiological response to a real or perceived stressor.

Any internal or external event, force, or condition that results in physical or emotional stress.

A state of unresponsiveness unless a vigorous stimulus is applied, such as a sternal rub.

A psychoactive compound with the potential to cause health and social problems, including substance use disorder.

The use of alcohol or drugs in a manner, situation, amount, or frequency that could cause harm to the user or to those around them.

The use of any of the psychoactive substances.

An illness caused by repeated misuse of substances such as alcohol, caffeine, cannabis, hallucinogens, inhalants, opioids, sedatives, hypnotics, anxiolytics, stimulants (amphetamines, cocaine, and other stimulants), and tobacco.

Recurrent use of alcohol and/or drugs causes clinically significant impairment, including health problems, disability, and failure to meet major responsibilities at work, school, or home.

Thoughts of killing oneself.

Death caused by injuring oneself or ingesting substances with the intent to die

A term used to describe an individual who harms themselves with intent to end their life but does not die as a result of their actions.

An individual who has a plan for suicide, has the means to injury oneself, and has the intent to die.

Identifying the risk of a client committing suicide by assessing suicidal ideation, plan, intent, suicidal or self-harm behaviors, risk factors, and protective factors.

A period of increased confusion, anxiety, agitation, pacing, and disorientation in patients with dementia that often begins at dusk and continues throughout the night. The cause is unknown.

Standardized questions that are relatively easy to analyze.

Part of the autonomic nervous system that activates the 'fight or flight' responses such as increases in heart rate and respiratory rate.

Speech with a wandering train of thought that never returns to the main point of a conversation

A syndrome of movement disorders that persists for at least one month and can last up to several years despite discontinuation of the medications.

A syndrome of movement disorders that can occur in clients taking first-generation antipsychotics.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) that occurs during adolescence.

The use of digital technologies to deliver medical care, health education, and public health services by connecting multiple users in separate locations.

Mental health counseling over the phone or online with videoconferencing tools.

An individual's natural, biologically based behavioral tendencies and emotional reactions, present from birth

Implemented for symptomatic clients to reduce the severity of the disease and potential long-term complications.

A type of professional communication defined as the purposeful, interpersonal, information-transmitting process that leads to client understanding and participation.

A safe, welcoming, supportive, and functional physical treatment environment.

Newer antipsychotic medications that have partial D2 agonism, as opposed to D2 blockade, resulting in less adverse effects such as weight gain.

Sudden twitches, movements, or sounds that people do repeatedly with the inability to stop their body from doing these action.

An age-appropriate removal from an activity for a child or adolescent for a set period of time to promote self-control and self-reflection.

A need for progressively increased amounts of a substance to achieve the desired effect or a diminished effect with continued use of the same amount of a substance.

An act of commission or omission that gives rise to injury or harm to another and amounts to a civil wrong for which courts impose liability.

A noninvasive procedure that uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain to improve symptoms of depression.

When the client projects (i.e., transfers) their feelings to the nurse.

A gender identity or gender expression that differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

An event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful and can have lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.

A strengths-based approach to providing client care that is grounded in an understanding of the impact of trauma. It emphasizes physical, psychological, and emotional safety for both providers and survivors and creates opportunities for survivors to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment referred to as resilience.

Occur when the defendant’s actions or inactions were unreasonably unsafe.

Interventions designed to reach entire groups, such as those in schools, workplaces, or entire communities.

Telling the truth.

Sounds that a person makes with his or her voice such as grunting, humming, clearing the throat, or yelling out a word or phrase.

Individuals over age 16 who present to a psychiatric facility and request hospitalization.

A group of individuals who are at increased risk for health problems and health disparities.

The “healthy” range of the mental health continuum where individuals are experiencing a state of good mental and emotional health

The “healthy” range of the mental health continuum where individuals are experiencing a state of good mental and emotional health.

A generic assessment instrument that provides a standardized method for measuring health and disability across cultures.

Type of direct observation of community needs while driving and literally looking through the windshield.

A group of physical and mental symptoms that can range from mild to life-threatening.

Interventions aimed at managing the physical and emotional symptoms that occur after a person suddenly stops using a psychoactive substance.

Severely disorganized and virtually incomprehensible speech or writing, marked by severe loosening of associations.

The act or threat of violence, ranging from verbal abuse to physical assaults directed toward persons at work or on duty.