ASSESSMENT
The ability to understand to true nature of one's situation and accept some personal responsibility for that situation.
What is Insight?
The ability to resist illness when under stress.
What is hardiness?
Hygiene and grooming, appropriate dress, posture, eye contact, unusual movements and mannerisms, speech
What is general assessment and motor behaviors?
Examples of this class of medication include sertraline, fluoxetine, escitalopram
What are SSRIs?
To decrease medications gradually.
What is tapering?
The outward expression of the client's emotional state.
What is Affect?
A belief that personal ability and efforts affect the events in our lives.
What is self-efficacy?
What the client is thinking, how the client is thinking, clarity of ideas, self-harm and suicidal urges.
What is thought process and thought content?
Examples of medications from this class medication include haloperidol, risperidone, olanzapine
What are antipsychotic?
New symptoms resulting from the discontinuation of the drug.
What is withdrawal?
A fixed, false belief not based in reality.
What is delusion?
Emotional sustenance that comes from fiends, family members, and even health-care providers who help a person when a problem arises.
What is social support?
Orientation, confusion, memory.
What is sensorium and intellectual processes?
Examples of this class of medications include methylphenidate and amphetamine
What are stimulants?
A temporary return of symptoms
What is rebound?
Displaying a facial expression that is incongruent with mood or situation; often silly or giddy regardless of circumstances.
What is inappropriate affect?
Nursing care that is sensitive to issues related to culture, race, gender, sexual orientation, social class, economic situation, and other factors.
What is cultural competency?
Personal view of self, description of physical self, personal qualities or attributes.
What is self-concept?
Examples from this class of medications include alprazolam, clonazepam, and chlordiazepoxide
What are benzodiazepines?
The time it takes for half of the drugs to be removed from the bloodstream
What is half-life?
The maintenance of posture or position over time even when it is awkward or uncomfortable.
What is wavy flexibility?
A client's beliefs about life, health, illness, death, and one's relationship to the universe; involves the essence of a persons being and his or her beliefs about the meaning of life and the purpose of living.
eating habits, sleep patterns, health problems, compliance with medications, ability to perform ADLs.
What is physiologic and self-care considerations?
Examples of this class of medications include lamotrigine, valproic acid, and carbamazepine
What are mood-stabilizers?
The amount of the drug needed to achieve the maximum effect.
What is potency?