Ethical and legal
This is when patient confidentiality can be compromised.
What is when the patient discloses information such as suicidal or homicidal ideation?
Impulsive self-destructive behaviors are common with this d/o
What is borderline personality disorder?
These statements are true of hepatic encephalopathy.
What is the condition occurs due to an increase in ammonia that the liver cannot convert to urea and neomycin and lactose are treatments?
This is the chief neurotransmitter responsible for lowering anxiety.
What is GABA?
This neurotransmitter is implicated in psychotic states.
What is dopamine?
This would require emergency committment.
What is an individual with psychosis with plans to kill their neighbor?
This is a behavior associated with obsessive compulsive personality d/o.
What are extremely rigid rules for themselves and others?
Depersonalization-derealization disorder can be described as this.
What is the experience of emotional and/or physical numbing and a distorted sense of time?
This is a symptom of GAD.
What is excessive worrying?
This is the goal if trauma-informed care.
What is rebuilding a sense of hope, control, and empowerment?
This is the unlawful confinement if a patient against their will.
What is false imprisonmemt?
PTSD is prevalent in this group.
What is women?
This is the priority for patients with somatic disorders.
What is focusing on the patient's feelings, leading the patient closer to addressing the root cause of the problem?
These are typical symptoms of moderate anxiety.
What are grasping less information than usual, some difficulty with problem solving and focusing and possibly some somatic symptoms from ANS response.
This would be a realistic goal for the patient with PTSD.
What is obtaining adequate sleep?
The nurse threatens to restrain a patient because the patient is interrupting nursing report. This is an example of this.
What is false imprisonment?
Psychic numbing in PTSD is the result of this.
What is negative reinforcement?
This would be suspected in a patient with somatic disorder.
What is complaints of vague symptoms, visits to multiple doctors, and anxious?
Nurses must do this when a patient experiences severe anxiety.
What is lowering the patient's anxiety level?
These are important variables in the development of PTSD.
What are responses are affected by previous trauma, cohesiveness from social networks, controlling the recurrence, and the duration and severity of the stressor?
Being fair to all and giving equal treatment
What is justice?
These are the best predictors of PTSD.
What is the severity of the stressor and the degree of psychosocial isolation in the recovery environment?
This is the prime difference between illness anxiety disorder and somatic symptom disorder.
What is patients with IAD have minimal or no somatic symptoms?
This class of medication could be used briefly for anxiety but is not preferred for long term use.
What are benzos?
This is an appropriate goal for the patient with somatic disorder.
What are developing adaptive coping methods?