Therapeutic Communication
This communication technique involves the nurse listening attentively, without judgment, and reflecting on the patient's feelings.
What is Active Listening?
This class of medication is commonly used to treat depression and works by increasing levels of serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain.
What are serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs)?
Characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, loss of interest, and difficulty concentrating.
What is major depressive disorder?
This neurotransmitter is often implicated in the development of depression, as it regulates mood, sleep, and appetite.
What is Serotonin?
This nonpharmacological intervention is used to help individuals manage stress and anxiety through conscious inhaling and exhaling?
What is Deep Breathing?
This type of therapeutic communication involves acknowledging the patient's emotions and experiences to create empathy.
What is Validation?
An category antidepressant that requires a low-tyramine diet.
What is MAOI?
This disorder is marked by excessive worry and physical symptoms like muscle tension and fatigue, lasting for at least six months.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
Imbalance in the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to symptoms such as tremors, rigidity, and bradykinesia.
What is Parkinson's disease?
An nonpharm treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder.
What is Light Therapy?
This type of questioning encourages deeper thought and allows the patient to express feelings and ideas in greater detail.
What are Open-Ended Questions?
Therapeutic level for lithium. (Bonus points if you can state what lithium is typically used for)
What is between 0.6 and 1.2 mEq/L? (It is a mood stabilizer, typically used for bipolar AND seizure disorders)
This condition involves experiencing recurring episodes of manic and depressive states, often leading to extreme mood swings.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This neurotransmitter decreases excitability and increases calm.
What is GABA?
This form of therapy involves helping the patient identify and change negative thought patterns to improve emotional regulation.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?
This technique involves summarizing what the patient has said, ensuring understanding and providing clarity during the conversation.
What is Restating?
This condition usually occurs when two antidepressants that increase serotonin are combined, resulting in dangerously high levels of a certain neurotransmitter.
What is Serotonin Syndrome?
This disorder is characterized by a loss of contact with reality, including symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking.
What is Schizophrenia?
In patients with bipolar disorder, the imbalance of this neurotransmitter may contribute to both manic and depressive episodes.
What is Dopamine?
This therapeutic intervention uses rhythm, melody, and lyric analysis to help patients express emotions, reduce anxiety, and improve mood.
What is Music Therapy?
Instead encouraging the client to explore their own thoughts and feelings to find their OWN solution, this NON therapeutic technique offers the client a solution.
What is Giving Advice?
A list of four categories of symptoms associated with extrapyramidal symptoms.
What is Acute Dystonia, Pseudo-parkinsonism, Akathisia, and Tardive Dyskinesia?
Characterized by chronic patterns of disregard for others' rights, impulsivity, and violation of social norms, this personality disorder is often associated with a lack of empathy, deceitfulness, and impulsivity, and is commonly seen in individuals with a history of conduct disorder in childhood.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
This disorder involves the accumulation of beta-amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
Three indications for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
What is Depression, Schizophrenia with catatonia or schizoaffective disorder and Acute manic episodes?