MENTAL HEALTH NURSING SCOPE OF PRACTICE|LATEST EXAM 2024-2025|WITH QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS |100% GUARANTEED TO PASS psychiatric mental health nursing - ANSWER--a specialized area of nursing practice committed to promoting holistic brain health through the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of behavioral problems, psychiatric disorders, and comorbid conditions psychiatric nursing - ANSWER--an art and a science that involves employing a purposeful use of self and a wide range of nursing, psychosocial, and neurobiological research evidence to produce effective outcomes types of traumas - ANSWER--natural disasters -kidnapping -school violence -community violence -terrorism/war -homocide -physical abuse -sexual abuse -domestic violence-medical procedures -victim of crime -accidents -suicide of loved one -neglect fight or flight syndrome - ANSWER--what happens to ur body when under stress; frightened or angry -increases heart rate, respiratory rate, dilates pupils, inhibits digestive and urinary tract -shows stress as a biological response effect of repeated stressors - ANSWER--causes body to have physiological and psychological symptoms -examples= numbness, hyperarousal, hypervigalence, nightmares, flashbacks, helplessness, avoidance behaviors) -leads to being traumatized cortisol - ANSWER--primary stress hormone short term effect of cortisol - ANSWER--glucose release from liver and muscles long term effect of cortisol - ANSWER--immune changes -loss of muscle and bone mass -loss of