Question

described why you think maintaining self-esteem is important   for those who are aging, and identify the complications for you as a nurse in carrying for someone experiencing the challenge of maintaining self-esteem.

Answer 1

Self-esteem refers to a person's beliefs about their own worth and value. It also has to do with the feelings people experience that follow from their sense of worthiness or unworthiness. Self-esteem is important because it heavily influences people's choices and decisions. In other words, self-esteem serves a motivational function by making it more or less likely that people will take care of themselves and explore their full potential. People with high self-esteem are also people who are motivated to take care of themselves and to persistently strive towards the fulfillment of personal goals and aspirations. People with lower self-esteem don't tend to regard themselves as worthy of happy outcomes or capable of achieving them and so tend to let important things slide and to be less persistent and resilient in terms of overcoming adversity. They may have the same kinds of goals as people with higher self-esteem, but they are generally less motivated to pursue them to their conclusion.

Self-esteem is a somewhat abstract concept; it's hard for someone who doesn't already have it to know what it would be like to have it. One way for people who have lower self-esteem to begin to appreciate what it would be like to have higher self-esteem is to consider how they may feel about things in their lives that they value. For instance, some people really like cars. Because cars are important to them, these people take really good care of their cars. They make good decisions about where to park the car, how often to get it serviced, and how they will drive it. They may decorate the car and then show it off to other people with pride. Self-esteem is like that, except it is yourself that you love, care for and feel proud of. When children believe they are valuable and important, they take good care of themselves. They make good decisions about themselves which enhance their value rather than break it down.

Nurses, due to the nature of their job, are in a close relationship with their patients and can provide proper and standard support to decrease the adverse side effects of ECT.

These nonmedical interventions are mostly easy to deliver and generally they are in the score of nursing duties. According to the results of this study it is recommended that nurses should spend more time with patients to meet their informational, physical and emotional needs. Nursing managers can prepare their staff through training courses in order to provide care and support for particularly patients receiving ECT.

One of the limitations of this study was the possible interactions between nurses in the intervention and control group through conversation. This limitation was partially controlled by training specific nurses in the morning or the night shifts, encouraging their participation through incentives and by collaborating with the management syste

However, in order to minimize the possibility of exchanging information between the intervention and control group further actions should be taken.