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Artifact 1: Quote

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-23 06:12:07 UTC

"Listening is one of the most important aspects of therapeutic communication. It is through listening that we validate patients' emotions and begin to build trust"

Virginia Henderson (Nursing Theorist)

Artifact 2: Personal Drawing

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-23 06:12:55 UTC

Artifact 3: Do's and Don'ts Reference Sheet

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-23 06:18:21 UTC

Artifact 1: Quote

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-23 06:38:04 UTC

"addressing the social determinants of health is not just about improving the economy; it's about ensuring that every mother and child has the chance to thrive, no matter their background"

Dr. Linda Jones (Mental Health Advocate"

Artifact 2: infographic

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-23 06:38:54 UTC

Artifact 3: Personal Experience

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-23 06:39:09 UTC

During a clinical shift at PRHC, we had a patient who had not sought any prenatal care until 37 weeks gestation because there was a lack of transportation and care options available for her other 3 children.

Artifact 1: Early Childhood Developmental Milestones Chart

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-23 06:41:49 UTC

Artifact 2: Personal Experience

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-23 06:42:12 UTC

My niece and nephew growing and learning how to do things together and learning how to be independent when they aren't together.

Artifact 3: Quote

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-23 06:42:39 UTC

"there is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding"

Erik Erikson

Artifact 1: Self-Care Checklist for new Moms

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-23 06:43:30 UTC

self-care checklist for new mothers

Artifact 2: Quote

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-23 06:43:51 UTC

"Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had and dealing with fears you didn't know existed"

Linda Wooten

Artifact 3: Postpartum depression infographic

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-23 06:44:09 UTC

Artifact 1: Personal Experience

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-23 06:44:52 UTC

At clinical during our mental health placement, we got put into a situation with an aggravated patient who didn't want to cooperate. Regardless we got to see how the nurses handled that situation and got the patient to finally cooperate.

Artifact 2: De-escalation techniques infographic

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-23 06:45:25 UTC

infographic

Artifact 3: situation card

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-23 06:45:41 UTC

Artifact 1: How does it hold meaning?

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 02:31:40 UTC

This quote holds meaning as it easily explains the importance of active listening to validate the patient's emotions in a mental health situation. It is common in a mental health setting that the patients often feel invalidated and dependent on daily activities where they may feel scared or embarrassed by their emotions. Being able to listen, validate, and build trust with the patients is an essential skill needed for communication with patients and vulnerable populations.

Artifact 2: How does it hold meaning

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 02:37:37 UTC

This picture holds meaning as, within mental health-focused populations, you are rarely aware of what one is thinking. By going in to communicating with patients and already being aware of that fact can help nurses build a deeper connection and level of trust with their patients.

Artifact 3: How does it hold meaning

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 02:48:49 UTC

As a nursing student, it is common and normal to feel not as confident in your skills, especially your communication with patients. Having a quick table such as this one to be able to reference, especially in a clinical setting before you go to talk to a patient can be a helpful tool to make you feel more confident with your abilities, and therefore make you a better nurse.

Artifact 1: How does it hold meaning

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 02:56:20 UTC

As nursing students, we are constantly learning that health is not simply just biology. Health is a combination of multiple different factors such as housing, income, accessibility, and education. We have come to understand that early life conditions can impact long-term health. As the quote states, addressing these social determinants of health we are able to advocate for the changes needed to ensure that every mother and child have a healthy start to their lives.

Artifact 2: How dose it hold meaning

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 03:05:48 UTC

This infographic can be used as an important tool not just for nursing students but as an education tool for mothers. As nurses, an important part of our responsibilities is patient education. At times, with important and difficult topics, it can be difficult to adequately ensure that we are educating to the full extent but having a tool such as this infographic can help in ensuring that the importance of these topics are conveyed.

Artifact 3: How does it hold meaning?

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 03:15:10 UTC

This experience gave us a real-world insight into how it is that social determinants of health can influence the health outcomes of our patients. We can learn and study them all we want but ultimately unless we can recognize and act accordingly in a professional setting it is all theory. Being given the chance to experience this as saddening as it is, makes us better nurses.

Artifact 1: How does it hold meaning?

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 03:17:24 UTC

This table to me, is an education tool that I can use with my future patients to be able to adequately express the kind of milestones and accomplishments they should be expecting of their children in the coming years.

Artifact 2: How does it hold meaning

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 03:20:31 UTC

This is an important experience to me as even though they are not my children (evidently because I am 19), I feel pride and joy when I get the chance to experience these milestones and learning experiences with them. Having this experience makes me feel like I will be able to connect on a deeper level with my patients when we discuss these milestones. I also feel like these experiences will render me a better educator for my patients as I will be educating based on acquired knowledge from research and school as well as my personal experiences.

Artifact 3: How does it hold meaning?

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 03:43:37 UTC

This quote is important to me because it emphasizes the continuous growth of children which is a key concept in pediatric nursing which is a field of interest of mine. It highlights how children are continuously growing and how even the littlest things can influence their development. As a nurse, we are part of these childrens lives in some of potentially the most vulnerable times of their lives, ad the way that we treat and care for them can continue to affect them throughout many years.

Artifact 1: How does it hold meaning?

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 03:56:18 UTC

Similar to other artifacts, I find that this is an important teaching tool that can be potentially used in my future practice to emphasize that postpartum care isn't just about physical health but mental and emotional health as well. This checklist can be used to minimize the potential risk of PPD or negative mental health impacts among new moms.

Artifact 2: How does it hold meaning?

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 04:05:18 UTC

This quote holds meaning to me because it highlights that motherhood brings forth unexpected challenges and fears. Many new mothers doubt themselves and their abilities to care for their newborns. As a nursing student, understanding these emotions and possibilities helps provide compassionate, patient-centred care.

Artifact 3: How does it hold meaning

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 15:09:57 UTC

Similar to other artifacts, this is also an important educational tool. I find it to be useful that it has actual statistics and discusses the risks one has of being diagnosed with PPD. I think it is a topic that is not talked about often and is stigmatized throughout the community. I believe that it is a topic that should be discussed more often within the care setting, and having a useful tool to be able to educate effectively is also important.

Artifact 1: How does it hold meaning?

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 16:38:25 UTC

This experience was meaningful to me because it was the first in-person experience with the de-escalation techniques we were taught. As I have said before, we can learn the topics as much as we want, but until we have that in-person experience, the learning doesn't do much. I find that I learned a lot during that experience, in terms of what order to use the techniques and what to do/react when they don't work.

Artifact 2: How does it hold Meaning?

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 16:52:57 UTC

Again, I think this could be a useful tool for students during clinical to refer back to when talking to a combative patient. I enjoy having something quick to look at just as a refresher because mental health is not the only placement where these techniques can be useful in practice.

Artifact 3: How does it hold meaning?

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 16:53:56 UTC

I find that situation cards are a useful tool to practice your therapeutic communication and what methods work the best when communicating with a patient expressing challenging behaviours. I find that if I practice skills, I'm able to think faster and more effectively on my feet in practice. Therefore, practicing scenario cards helps me understand it better considering the type of learner that I am .

Why I chose this topic

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 17:17:20 UTC

I chose this topic because it is a foundational skill and knowledge that can be applied to all sectors of nursing. I applied it specifically to mental health because it is typical for patients in a mental health setting to be guarded and at times combative with their behaviour. Applying effective therapeutic communication skills is essential for compassionate and patient-centered care.

Why I chose this topic

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 17:17:48 UTC

I chose this topic because I believe that maternal health outcomes are a topic that is typically neglected in larger health conversations. I have found during placement that the social determinants of health aren't addressed as much as they should be, and a lot of education isn't provided to the patients. I find that I want to educate myself more on these topics so that I can be a better care provider.

Why I chose this topic

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 17:18:11 UTC

I chose this topic because I also feel that these topics aren't covered much in a care setting. A lot of the patients I have talked to don't know much about the milestones their child should be reaching and when. Most of the time its more thought of a circumstance that occurs when it does but they don't know at what times it should be something to get checked for developmental challenges. I am a strong believer in the concept that having more knowledge is good and I want to be able to provide my patients with whatever information they seek.

Why I chose this topic

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 17:18:23 UTC

I chose this topic because I feel like postpartum depression is a topic that is highly stigmatized. I feel like a lot of people expect new mothers to be excited about their newborns, but a lot of the time, they feel scared and anxious. I feel as though it is a topic that all healthcare providers should receive training on. By having this as a topic of my discussion I am taking the initiative and educating myself to advocate for my patients effectively.

Why I chose this topic

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 17:18:50 UTC

I chose this topic because although for the sake of this assignment, it is used in the context of mental health, these techniques can be used in every area of nursing. They are important tools that can be used during confrontational situations with patients. By choosing to educate myself on these techniques I will be able to apply these in practice to keep myself, my patients and my colleagues safe.

references for further learning

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-24 23:48:10 UTC

Ted Talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/alexandra_sacks_a_new_way_to_think_about_the_transition_to_motherhood

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Article 1:

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 00:00:11 UTC

Girardi, G., Longo, M., & Bremer, A. A. (2023). Social determinants of health in pregnant individuals from underrepresented, understudied, and underreported populations in the United States. International Journal for Equity in Health, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-01963-x

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emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 00:01:09 UTC

Crear-Perry, J., Correa-De-Araujo, R., Johnson, T. L., McLemore, M. R., Neilson, E., & Wallace, M. (2020). Social and structural determinants of health inequities in maternal health. Journal of Women S Health, 30(2), 230–235. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2020.8882

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emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 00:02:23 UTC

Misirliyan, S. S., Boehning, A. P., & Shah, M. (2023, March 16). Development milestones. StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557518/

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emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 00:03:36 UTC

Jarocha, T. (2024, September 19). Complete guide to developmental milestones. Child Mind Institute. https://childmind.org/guide/parents-guide-to-developmental-milestones/

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emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 00:06:22 UTC

Rabenschlag, F., Cassidy, C., & Steinauer, R. (2019). Nursing perspectives: reflecting history and informal coercion in de-escalation strategies. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00231

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 00:08:02 UTC

Introduction!!!

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 22:07:11 UTC

Therapeutic Communication in Mental Health Nursing

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 22:15:34 UTC

SDOH Effects on Maternal Health Outcomes

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 22:18:40 UTC

Childhood and Developmental Milestones

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 22:21:24 UTC

Postpartum Depression

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 22:24:03 UTC

De-escalation techniques in mental health nursing

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 22:26:47 UTC

Key Learnings

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 22:28:58 UTC

Relational Inquiry

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 22:31:08 UTC

Questions

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 22:32:57 UTC

Reflection/Confusion

emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 22:35:46 UTC

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emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 22:38:31 UTC

Postpartum depression. (n.d.). CAMH. https://www.camh.ca/en/health-info/mental-illness-and-addiction-index/postpartum-depression

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emmalogandevenyi — 2025-03-25 22:39:06 UTC

Tortorice, J. (2022, October 13). Article headline. Name. https://ceufast.com/blog/a-nurses-guide-to-de-escalation-techniques