Mood and Anxiety Disorders
A disorder characterized by at least 2 weeks of low mood, anhedonia, weight and sleep changes, low energy, worthlessness or guilt, and other symptoms that interfere with daily life.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
Symptoms that constitute a diagnosis of Schizophrenia include 2 of the following: Hallucinations, Disorganized Speech, Grossly Disorganized or Catatonic Behavior, Negative Symptoms, and what else?
What are Delusions?
Paranoid, Schizoid and Schizotypal Personality Disorders fall under this Cluster.
What is Cluster A?
A patient presenting in mania with acute agitation and threatens to harm staff has this highest priority nursing diagnosis.
What is Risk for Other-Directed Violence?
This type of therapy focuses on identifying negative thinking and behavior patterns, reframing thoughts, and learning new coping strategies.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
The presence of one episode of mania constitutes criteria for this mood disorder.
What is Bipolar l Disorder?
Delusions and/or hallucinations that developed within one month of substance intoxication or withdrawal are known as this.
What is Substance-Induced Psychotic Disorder?
This disorder is marked by chronic instability, intense fear of abandonment, impulsivity, extreme fluctuations in mood, and at times, self-harm.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This nursing diagnosis would be used for a patient presenting with disorganized thinking related to Schizophrenia.
What is Disturbed Thought Process?
A standardized assessment tool that the nurse could utilize to assess the level of dyskinesias in a patient taking an antipsychotic medication is called this.
What is the AIMS (Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale)?
This group of disorders often presents with somatic or physical complaints and has high comorbidity for a mood disorder.
What are Anxiety Disorders?
This disorder is characterized by major mood symptoms during most of the same period of illness, but psychotic symptoms persist in the absence of any mood symptoms.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
This type of therapy is not indicated for Paranoid Personality Disorder.
What is Group Therapy?
A patient neglecting their ADLs related to a psychotic episode may have this nursing diagnosis associated with them.
What is Self-Neglect?
A patient presenting with thoughts of hanging themselves needs this type of assessment to aid in the proper identification of risk level and subsequent monitoring.
What is a Suicide Risk Assessment?
This disorder is marked by periods of hypomania and major depressive episodes without ever having a full manic episode.
What is Bipolar II Disorder?
Diminished emotional expression, avolition, alogia, apathy, and anosognosia are known as these types of symptoms in Schizophrenia.
What are Negative Symptoms?
This disorder is only diagnosed in those aged 18 or older and is marked by disregard for the rights of others and lack of remorse for their harmful behavior.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
A patient complains of loud auditory hallucinations described as voices that are demeaning and distracting. This nursing diagnosis corresponds to the auditory hallucinations.
What is Disturbed Sensory Perception?
The nurse understands the importance of assessing a patient’s understanding and awareness of their illness and need for treatment.
What is Insight?
This anxiety disorder is most commonly associated with suicidal ideation.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Symptoms that sometimes present before a first psychotic break, which can include poor concentration, mood changes, low motivation, and impairment at school/home/work, are known as this.
What are Prodromal Symptoms?
This disorder is marked by magical thinking, ideas of reference, eccentric behavior, and has a 20-40% conversion rate to Schizophrenia.
What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?
A patient with Borderline Personality Disorder presents for self-inflicted cuts to their inner thighs and thoughts to impulsively do it again to relieve emotional pain. This is the priority nursing diagnosis based on safety.
What is Risk for Self-Directed Violence or Self-Mutilation?
The nurse recognizes the need to assess both the patient and family for readiness to learn, information about the disorder, symptom management, and treatment.
What is Psychoeducation?