Nursing Diagnoses
Name a nursing diagnosis consistent with a patient experiencing symptoms of auditory hallucinations, agitation, impulsivity, and poor judgment with the goal of reducing or eliminating the symptoms.
What is Risk for Injury?
A state of agitation, distress, and restlessness that is an occasional side-effect of antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs.
What is akathisia?
Enables the process of developing and fine-tuning connections, allowing the brain to adapt to its environment.
What is plasticity?
A mood stabilizer with a very narrow therapeutic level required regular monitoring and can be utilized to treat manic episodes, severe aggression, severe depression, suicidal ideation, and behavior concerns after a TBI.
What is lithium carbonate?
This therapy aims to remove the fear response of a phobia and substitute a relaxation response to the conditional stimulus gradually using counter-conditioning.
What is systematic desensitization?
A nursing diagnosis with the goal to refrain from harming others, controlling impulses, and respecting others' space.
What is Risk for Violence?
Characterized by involuntary contractions of muscles of the extremities, face, neck, abdomen, pelvis, or larynx in either sustained or intermittent patterns that lead to abnormal movements or postures.
What is dystonia?
A cholinergic neurotransmitter that is the primary neurotransmitter of the parasympathetic nervous system is involved in higher intellectual functioning and memory.
What is acetylcholine (ACh)?
This medication has a black box warning regarding teratogenicity & congenital malformations for the development of cardiac and neurological defects with a higher risk on higher doses.
What is Valproic acid (or Divalproex sodium - Depakote)?
A technique in behavior therapy in which the individual is exposed directly to a maximum-intensity anxiety-producing situation or stimulus, either described or real, without any attempt made to lessen or avoid anxiety or fear during the exposure.
What is flooding?
A nursing diagnosis for a patient experiencing deficits in verbal communication, working memory, executive functioning, reasoning, and problem-solving.
What is Impaired Cognition?
Potentially life-threatening syndrome with symptoms consisting of a combination of mental status changes, neuromuscular hyperactivity, and autonomic hyperactivity.
What is serotonin syndrome?
This catecholamine neurotransmitter is considered the "pleasure neurotransmitter" involved in the reward system and associated with adventuresome and exploratory behaviors.
What is dopamine?
These type of medications is utilized for their sedating and mood-stabilizing properties, but there is a need for increased metabolic screening in this population as there is an increased risk for diabetes.
What are second-generation antipsychotics?
The process of suppressing, or pushing away, unwanted thoughts.
What is thought-stopping?
A nursing diagnosis for a patient experiencing minimal caloric intake, poor hygiene, and unclean clothing.
What is Self-Care Deficit?
Life-threatening neurologic emergency characterized by a distinctive clinical syndrome of mental status change, rigidity, fever, and dysautonomia.
What is neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
This part of the brain is involved in problem-solving, emotional traits, reasoning, speaking, and voluntary motor activity.
What is the frontal lobe?
This type of medication has an increased risk for agranulocytosis, aplastic anemia, and Stevens-Johnson's syndrome.
What is carbamazepine (Tegretol)?
A talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave is commonly utilized with anxiety and depression.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
This nursing diagnosis is utilized in a patient experiencing dysfunctional interaction with others, pressured speech, flight of ideas, annoyance or taunting of others, and crass speech.
What is Impaired Socialization?
A movement disorder that causes a range of repetitive muscle movements in the face, neck, arms, and legs, such as lip smacking, tapping or moving hands and feet, or blinking often.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This medication used in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder and bipolar disorder is non-addicting without risk for dependency but has drug interactions with fluvoxamine and grapefruit juice.
What is Buspirone (Buspar)?
This therapy promotes stability of daily behaviors including sleep/wake in order to minimize the impact of disruptions to circadian rhythms by developing and maintaining moderately active and consistent daily routines.
What is interpersonal and social rhythm therapy (ISRT)?