Psychopharmacology
This group of antipsychotic medications has been associated with an increased risk for EPS.
What are first generation (typical) antipsychotics?
These repetitive ritualistic behaviors (or mental acts) serve as a maladaptive coping mechanism to reduce anxiety associated with obsessive thoughts.
What are compulsions?
Delusions, hallucinations and disorganized thinking are examples of this kind of symptom associated with schizophrenia.
What are positive symptoms?
This disorder is characterized by alternating periods of mania and depression.
What is Bipolar I disorder?
This therapy type is considered first line treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder.
What is DBT?
During an emergency, nurses cannot administer a medication without a patient's consent unless this criteria has been met.
The black box warning on antidepressants warns of an increased risk for this phenomenon in individuals under 25.
What is increased risk for suicidal ideation?
Symptoms of this disorder include amenorrhea, lanugo, bradycardia, peripheral edema, hypothermia and hypotension with orthostatic changes
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
This clinical tool is used to determine the severity alcohol withdrawal by assessing symptoms across 10 categories.
What is the CIWA?
This disorder is characterized by alternating periods of hypomania and episodes of depression.
What is Bipolar II disorder?
This philosophical approach values awareness and understanding of trauma when assessing, planning and implementing care.
What is Trauma-Informed Care?
This phenomenon is characterized by sudden onset of confusion, agitation and disorientation.
What is delirium?
Patient teaching for stimulant medications include instructions to take each dose with or before meals due to this side effect.
What is decreased appetite?
Risks associated with this disorder include dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, and erosion of tooth enamel due to purging.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
When working with a client experiencing this adverse effect, the nurse may observe uncontrollable tongue movements, grimacing, and lip smacking.
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
This psychotherapy is commonly used in the treatment of depression, and involves identifying and changing negative thought patterns to improve feelings and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This disorder is characterized by a pattern of intense and chaotic relationships with affective instability and fluctuating attitudes towards other people.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This theoretical model of grief includes the stages of denial, anger, depression, bargaining and acceptance.
What is the Kübler-Ross Stages of Grief?
This rare but life threatening adverse effect associated with antipsychotic medications includes high fever, muscle rigidity, altered mental status, and autonomic instability.
What is Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome?
Patients with this type of anxiety disorder have an excessive fear of doing something embarrassing or being negatively evaluated in front of others.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
A severe deficiency in this vitamin can lead to Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.
What is Thiamine?
This non-pharmacological treatment involves the use of magnetic pulses to stimulate neurons in specific areas of the brain.
What is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)?
People with this personality disorder present with behavior that is odd and eccentric. Symptoms can look similar to schizophrenia, however psychosis is absent.
What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?
This disease is one of the most common causes of mild and major neurocognitive disorders.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
Certain agents within this class of medications should be used cautiously in individuals with childbearing potential due to their known or suspected teratogenic effects.
What are mood stabilizers?
(For an extra challenge, which mood stabilizers are associated with some teratogenic risk?)
This treatment for specific phobias involves exposing the patient to the feared stimulus in increasing amounts over time.
What is systematic desensitization?
This type of delusion is defined as a false belief that unrelated events, actions, or stimuli (such as the TV or radio) contain some kind of special message or personal meaning directed at the individual.
What are delusions of reference?
The therapeutic range for lithium.
What is 0.6 - 1.2 mEq/L?
These disorders involving a disruption in memory, consciousness, perception, or identity are thought to arise from exposure to overwhelming stress or trauma.
What are dissociative disorders?
This disorder involves the presence of multiple motor tics and one or more vocal tics.
What is Tourette's Disorder?
Nausea/vomiting, increased thirst, tremors, confusion, tinnitus, tachycardia, hyperthermia, seizure, and coma are all symptoms associated with this medication-related syndrome.
What is lithium toxicity?
The nurse would recognize that the client is having a panic attack when they observe at least 4 of these symptoms...
What are palpitations, sweating, shaking, sensations of shortness of breath, feelings of choking, chest pain, nausea or abdominal distress, dizziness, lightheadedness, chills or heat sensations, paresthesia, derealization or depersonalization, fear of losing control or going crazy, and/or fear of dying?
Symptoms of this condition include dysphoric mood, nausea or vomiting, muscle aches, lacrimation or rhinorrhea, pupillary dilation, piloerection, sweating, diarrhea, yawning, fever, and insomnia.
What is opiate withdrawal?
This mnemonic is useful for remembering the symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).
What is SIG E CAPS?
(For an extra challenge...what does SIG E CAPS stand for?)
Patients must display symptoms from each of these four clusters to meet the criteria for a diagnosis of PTSD.
What are intrusion, avoidance, negative mood, and arousal?
(For an extra challenge, can you name examples of specific symptoms from each of these clusters?)
This personality trait is one of the defining characteristics found in both Conduct Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder.
What is a lack of remorse?
OR
What is a disregard for the rights of others?