You're Stressing Me Out
Known as the Fight or Flight response, this nervous system has a quick action response
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
The ethical concept that ensures equal care for all people regardless of personal attributes
What is Justice?
The two opposite poles of Bipolar disorders
What are mania and depression?
The best way to simply describe how an SSRI works
What is blocks the reuptake of serotonin on the presynaptic receptors?
True or False: One’s spiritual practices are personal and should not be included in assessment
What is FALSE?
This can occur when an individual has been exposed to a trauma which leaves them feeling helpless or powerless
What is PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)?
This type of admission occurs with a court order when the client is a danger to self or others
What is involuntary admission?
Never having experienced a full manic episode, hypomania is a symptom of this type of Bipolar disorder
What is Bipolar II?
The primary medication used to treat mood dysregulation
What is Lithium?
This over-the-counter medication branded as an antidepressant should not be taken with other antidepressants
What is St John’s Wort?
True or False?
Chronic stress can increase one’s risk for eating disorders, mood disorders, and substance use disorders
What is True?
This protocol when practiced focuses on the patient safety, continuous direct observation and monitoring, and is based on federal, state, and facility guidelines
What are restraint and seclusion protocols?
True or False: Children can not be diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder
What is False? Children may present with an irritable mood.
Clozapine can cause low white blood cells known as this condition that can cause flu-like symptoms
What is Agranulocytosis?
“I’ve been taking my antidepressant for a week now and I don’t think it’s working.”
What is it could take a few weeks for therapeutic response: 2-4 weeks for TCAs and 4-6 weeks for SSRIs
The two words that describe “good stress” and “bad stress”
What are Eustress and Distress?
This duty allows the nurse to 'break confidentiality' and came about after the California Supreme Court case: Tarasoff v Regents of University of California.
What is Duty to Warn?
This type of therapy can be used for those clients who experience seasonal affective disorder because of lack of sunshine
What is Light Therapy?
Syndrome manifested by FEVER (fever/encephalopathy/vital sign instability/elevated creatine kinase/rigidity of muscles)
What is Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome?
My patient is taking Lithium for their bipolar and present to the ED with ‘early’ signs of toxicity. Name the serum level would you expect to see and symptoms
What is 1.5 mEq/L and GI symptoms: n/v/d
DAILY DOUBLE: Known as the “command center” in the brain, it processes information and sends the ‘distress’ call to the hypothalamus
*Double or Nothing- This gland releases adrenocorticotropin hormone
What is the Amygdala?
What is the Pituitary gland?
Civil wrong or wrongful act from which injury occurs. Can include assault, battery, and defamation of character.
What is a Tort?
Since safety is always a priority, the nursing assessment should include questions to address these two thoughts or ideations
What are suicidal and homicidal assessments?
DAILY DOUBLE: The black box warning on antidepressants
*Double or Nothing: Describe the reason this would occur
What is risk for suicide?
Energy returns. For some individuals, especially young people, the drug may alleviate the lethargy of depression first, but not the underlying suicidal ideation.
Patient often forgets to take their antipsychotic medication. This maintenance treatment option will help
What is depot injection?