Student Nurse: General Survey

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The concept of the week was General survey and interviewing and social determinants that impacts on patient’s health. It helped the student nurse understand the patients experience and feelings about their condition and staying in a hospital setting. Survey provides information about patient’s general appearance and behaviour, development status, and characteristics of patient’s illness (Crisp, Taylor, Douglas, & Rebeiro, 2013). While a form of communication where questions are being asked and it will be answered are called interview (Crisp et al., 2013).

In nursing, obtaining and identifying patient’s health history, health needs, risk factors, changes in their level of wellness and pattern of living is the main purpose of interviewing (Crisp et al., 2013). Interview also provides the nurse to observe the patient. The
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in the other hand, driving, walking in the beach, listening to music, playing the guitar, and having a conversation with family and company are example of stress relieve or example of calming the patient down. This shows a that the patient had been comfortable with the student nurse that he honestly and openly opened up to the student nurse. And this results to a positive nurse and patient relationship.

Mesocortical, mesolimbic, and nigrostriatal are types of dopamine pathways in the brain that are responsible in the production of the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Positive signs of schizophrenia are produce by mesolimbic pathway that has an overactive dopamine system (Craft & Gordon, 2015). While mesocortical pathway through an underactive dopamine system is responsible in the production of the negative symptoms of the schizophrenia (Craft & Gordon,

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