Diagnosis
Characterized by symptoms lasting 2 weeks and most of the day. Symptoms may include depressed mood, difficulty sleeping, indecisiveness, decreased ability to concentrate, indecisiveness, suicidal ideation...
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
A woman that has a fear of the dentist unknowingly forgets to show up for her dentist appointments.
What is Repression?
What is Restating?
A young man states that the president tried to poison his cereal this morning, he thinks people are constantly after him.
What is Paranoid?
Carbamazepine, Valporate, Lamotringine are part of which drug class?
What are Mood-stabilizing anti epileptic drugs?
A patient is experiencing chest pain, palpitations and shortness of breath. After running multiple tests, all test are normal. The patient states she had just gotten into an argument with her boyfriend prior to the symptoms. You would expect the doctor to diagnose her with this.
What is Anxiety/Panic attack?
A father looses his job and becomes angry, when he comes home he kicks the dog.
What is Displacement?
The nurse sits, observes and listens to the patient waiting to provide feedback.
What is active listening?
Does not accept responsibility, lacks empathy, impulsive, disregards others, sense of entitlement.
What is Antisocial?
Dry mouth, blurred vision, photophobia, constipation, tachycardia and urinary retention are all related to what type of side effect?
What are Anticholinergic effects?
Patient spends money without thinking, annoyed with everyone, tells men they are going to be her lover and when talking to the nurse she talks about lunch, birds flying outside, and how she lives near a couple celebrates.
What is Manic Bipolar?
A man has thoughts of cheating, he begins to accuse his wife of cheating on him.
What is Projection?
"May I sit down and talk with you?"
What is offering self?
What is OCD?
Treats positive and negative symptoms of Schizophrenia.
What is Risperidone? (Second-generation/atypical antipsychotics)
Patient states they are the president and that the government is coming to take them away, they were told this through the news on tv, and they are seen pacing the hallway.
What is Schizophrenia?
A 13 year old girl finds out that her parents are getting divorced. She starts to wet the bed again.
What is Regression?
"You said you had a difficult childhood, can you tell me more about your that?"
What is exploring?
A patient attempts to tell the nursing student that if she takes her for a walk outside the locked unit she will have less anxiety. She tells the student she is a queen, but begs the student not to leave her.
What is Borderline?
This medication should not be taken with foods that contain tyramine due to possible hypertensive crisis.
What are MAOIs?
Patient seen by nurse applying her make up, then taking it off, then reapplying it multiple times.
What is OCD?
S.T. gets angry and hits his wife. The next day he buys her flowers and chocolate.
What is Undoing?
Asking the patient personal questions that are irrelevant, giving advice, judging patient, dismissing patient's feelings, approving or disapproving behavior.
What is non-therapeutic communication?
Patient states they know they are better then all the other patients, they deserve more respect and better food. When asked if the patient would like to have a conversation the patient states they would never talk to someone beneath.
What is Narcissistic?
A patient presents to the emergency room stating that he was diagnosed with manic bipolar a few weeks ago and is now having trouble seeing, moments of his arms and legs jerking, diarrhea and nausea. The nurse would expect what?
What is Lithium Carbonate toxicity?