what is mental health nursing
a specialized area of nursing practice committed to promoting mental health throughout the assessment, diagnosis, and
... [Show More] treatment of human resources to mental health problems and psychiatric disorders
who created a holistic approach to nursing
Florence nightingale
who recommended therapeutic communication and stated that reducing anxiety about an illness is a way to encourage independence and self care?
Florence nightingale
The first trained nurse in the US
Linda richards
they opened Boston city hospital training school for nurses in 1882 at McLean Hospital (a psychiatric facility) and provided physical care for psychiatric patients who developed medical illnesses
Linda Richards
who integrated psychiatric nursing content into the curriculum at John Hopkins phipps clinic.
Effie Taylor
what two people encourages RNs to avoid the dichotomy of mind and body
Nightingale and Taylor
who wrote the first psychology textbook
Harriet Bailey
who was the first published nursing theorist after Florence nightingale
Hildegard Peplau
who wrote interpersonal relations in nursing and introduced psychiatric mental health nursing practice to the concepts of interpersonal relations and the therapeutic relationship
Hildegard peplau
who conceptualized nursing practice as independent of physicians
Peplau
who established first graduate level program for the preparation of clinical specialists in psychiatric nursing
Peplau
who established the following:
1. therapeutic use of self
2. nursing practice independent of physicians
peplau
in 1952, peplau was apart of was requirement
accredited schools require and offer a psychiatric nursing experience
in 1967, peplau was about of what
division of psych and mental health nursing first statement on psychiatric nursing practice.
making it the 1st official sanction of holistic approach of psychiatric mental health nursing.
what was known as moral treatment
the use of kindness, compassion, and a pleasant environment (best for safety and comfort)
what was insanity views as
an illness
what was considered barbaric behavior
existing primitive treatments such as blood letting and ice baths
what was considered the safe haven
asylums
what was the drawback with the moral treatment method
not always receiving treatment and often treated inhumanely
the moral treatment era was when
1790 - 1900
what was going on in the 1700's
colonial era in which "lunatics" were thought to be possessed by the devil and treated by removing and/or locking away, bleeding, purgatives, ice baths, trauma to the head, whippings [Show Less]