2018 Volume 18 Issue 4 Pages 268-271
We verified whether psychological vital sign (PVS) was valuable to appraise the mental health of nursing students.
Three subjects who participated in the studies entitled “A trial of standardization of PVS in nursing school” and “Stress management characteristics of nurses as rapport for patients and the development of the coping technique to adopt to the stress” and who left their job in B medical center were enrolled in this study.
The first subject represented high point in human relationship, confidence and steady self-esteem and diagnosed as psychological stabilization.
The second subject was diagnosed as psychological insufficiency and was presumed the possibility of psychological treatment, because there was no difference in the level of tension-anxiety, depression-dejection and anger-hostility before and after clinical practice.
The third subject represented low self-esteem, emotional disturbance, and lack of physical and psychological resilience. She was considered to receive an urgent medical intervention.
The possibility that the PVS was a useful diagnostic tool to conclude a personal psychological character and stress coping power was suggested. Our future subject of research is to develop a self-monitoring system of PVS.
