Psychiatric Nursing Essay

I chose to research a concept pertaining to psychiatric nursing. As stated in my autobiography presented the first week in our class discussion board, I have a second love for psychiatric nursing. I have found, that while being a registered nurse, many nurses that have never worked in a psych unit, with their only experience in psych was in their clinical rotation while in undergraduate, is most times perceived as a negative and dangerous specialty of nursing . It's true! psychiatric nursing is not for everyone. Some cannot fathom working with patients who seem to have a "mental problem". However, I am a firm believer that, every single human on this earth has had their own psychiatric, mental, emotional ups and downs within our life thus far. It happens and will happen to us all at certain points in our lives, and if not a personal experience with a "mental
Instead, mind, body, emotion, and spirit function as one unit, affecting and controlling the parts in dynamic interaction with one another. This is conscious and unconscious processes are equally important.
Basic needs, which drive behavior. Basic needs are only met when the patients perceives they are met. When a need is met, basic needs no longer exists, but, that is when growth can occur. When personal needs are left unmet, a situation may be perceived as a threat, leading to distress and more ailments and illness. This is very similar to failure to thrive in the neonatal specialty. Humans need the interactions, we need to have our feelings accommodated as much as possible so the mind is fulfilled and the body wants to start or continue to heal and grow.
Affiliated individuation is a concept unique to this theory as well, based on the belief that all people have an instinctual thrive to be accepted and dependent on support systems throughout their lives, while also attempting to maintain a sense of independence and