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Discussion Topics, Mohr

Chapter 8, Nursing Values, Attitudes, and Self-Awareness

Discussion Topics	Learning Objective
1. It has been found that in a group setting, people may act in a way that is not within their typical character. Read the information in the chapter about Zimbardo’s “Stanford Prison Experiment.” How do you think you would have acted as a prison guard or as a prisoner? Have you ever been influenced by a group to behave in a manner that you normally would not have if you were alone? How do you feel about that behavior now?	2
2. Jessica is a 24-year-old woman who is suffering from depression. Her boyfriend of 2 years recently committed suicide, and she has been trying to figure out why. What is the difference between dispositional and situational factors? Jessica overhears someone say that Jessica has been a “psycho” ever since her boyfriend killed himself. Discuss the implications of labeling and social perception. Discuss Rosenhan’s study and how it relates to labeling.	2, 3
3. Mark is a psychiatric nurse who has been working in a mental health facility for 15 years. At the end of his shift, the nurse to whom he needs to give report walks into the nurse’s station. Mark says, “I can’t wait to get out of here, I can’t deal with these crazy people any more.” A patient overhears his statement and begins to cry. What are the signs of professional burnout in the workplace? What methods could Mark use to manage his stress/burnout?	5, 6
4. You are a nursing student doing your clinical rotation in the local emergency department. You witness a case of horizontal violence between a nurse of 25 years’ experience against a new graduate nurse. Your nursing instructor asks you to discuss in class what you witnessed. What is horizontal violence? From what you witnessed, how do you believe horizontal violence affects the nurse?

Answer 1

You would have acted as a prison guard or as a prisoner

The Stanford Prison Experiment declined rapidly and the dull and barbaric side of human instinct wound up clear rapidly.

The detainees started to endure a wide exhibit of embarrassments and disciplines on account of the watchmen, and many started to hint at mental and enthusiastic misery.

On the second day of the test, the detainees composed a mass revolt and uproar, as a challenge about the conditions. Gatekeepers worked additional hours and conceived a procedure to separate and put down the uproar, utilizing fire-quenchers.

No incite for this activity was given by Zimbardo; the watchmen utilized their very own drive to detail the arrangement.

Standard detainee tallies and move call turned into a preliminary of difficulty and custom embarrassment for the detainees, with constrained exercise and physical disciplines winding up increasingly normal. Beddings were seized from the detainees and they were compelled to mull over cool, hard floors.

You ever been influenced by a group to behave in a manner that you normally

To direct the Stanford Prison Experiment, Zimbardo developed a ridicule remedial office in the storm cellar of Stanford University.

Adverts were set in neighborhood daily papers offering $15 every day for members in this program. Of the 75 reactions, the 24 male subjects made a decision to be most rationally and candidly stable were chosen. For the most part working class and white, they were separated into two gatherings haphazardly, of 12 detainees and 12 monitors.

The gathering chose to be the watchmen were furnished in 'military-style' scaring garbs. They were additionally outfitted with wooden mallet and reflected shades, to forestall eye to eye connection and influence the watchmen to seem less human.

In a commencement meeting, Zimbardo, who went about as the superintendent for the span of the test, educated the gatekeepers that the main decide was that no physical discipline was permitted. Other than that, the watchmen were to run the jail as they saw fit, and would be separated into normal working movements and examples.

If you were alone? How do you feel about that behavior now?

Zimbardo believed that the experiment showed how the individual personalities of people could be swamped when they were given positions of authority. Social and ideological factors additionally decided how the two gatherings acted, with people acting in a way that they thought was required, as opposed to utilizing their very own judgment.

The examination seemed to demonstrate how subjects responded to the particular needs of the circumstance as opposed to alluding to their very own inward ethics or convictions.

The aftereffects of the trial have been utilized in numerous prominent court cases throughout the years, to attempt and demonstrate that a jail must have clear directions and rules from more elevated amount experts, or detainee misuse may happen.

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