5.List one example from your experience as a
nurse that exemplifies the use of the following
strategies for developing self-esteem into your
practice.
a.Dispel the myth that it is necessary to
know all there is to know about nursing to
be a good nurse:
b.Realistically evaluate strengths and weak-
nesses:
c. Accentuate the positive:
d.Develop a conscious plan for changing
weaknesses into strengths:
e.Work to develop team self-esteem:
f. Actively demonstrate your commitment to
nursing and concern about the nursing
profession’s public image:
6.Describe how you would record a self-concept
assessment, using your own personal
strengths as an example.
7.Give an example of an interview question
you could use to assess self-concept in the
following areas.
a.Personal identity:
b.Patient strengths:
c. Body image:
d.Self-esteem:
e.Role performance:
8.Write a sample nursing diagnosis and goal for
the following disturbances in self-concept.
a.A 42-year-old woman is anxious about dis-
figurement from her mastectomy.
Diagnosis:
Patient goal:
b.A teen is anxious about being able to cope
with pregnancy.
Diagnosis:
Patient goal:
c. A 76-year-old man stops taking care of his
physical needs because he doesn’t want
to go on with life without his recently
deceased spouse.
Diagnosis:
Patient goal:
d.A parent doesn’t know how to teach a
child who is being ridiculed by his peers
in school how to establish self-esteem.
Diagnosis:
Patient goal:
e.A battered woman feels her situation is
hopeless and believes she deserves to be
abused because she is so weak.
Diagnosis:
Patient goal:
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