Name this disorder
Chronic, progressive, multisystem with uncontrolled alcohol consumption.
Alcoholism
Remain with the patient and stay calm. Be consistent and establish trust by setting up times to spend with the client frequently. Mirror what the client is feeling and ensure their safety.
Nursing Management for a client with anxiety disorder.
Antidepressant that will increase appetite, helps them sleep, and the nurse would give a patient with anorexia nervosa 1 tablet at bedtime.
Mirtazapine
The 3 questions you need to ask a person that is severely depressed.
Do you feel like harming/killing yourself? Do you have a plan? What's the method?
Assessment of an alcoholic
They deny a drinking problem, anorexia, blackouts, and increased alcohol consumption.
Obsession for thinness achieved through self starvation. Will have a preoccupation with diets, food, and quest for perfect figure.
Anorexia nervosa
Give them a multivitamin daily, set their meal time duration to help lower their anxiety, give calcium carbonate after meals to treat hypocalcemia, and don't give them haloperidol unless needed.
Anorexia nervosa
Mood stabilizing medication for that can be used for manic phase of bipolar disorder.
Lithium
Depression, family dysfunction, major loss, traumatic life events, previous suicide attempt, chronic illness, victim of abuse, and schizophrenia
Risk factors for suicide
You advise a client that is about to be discharged to do when they get home.
Find and attend AA meetings and get a sponsor. Client's are more than likely to succeed in staying sober if they have a stable support system
Obsession gives to rise to anxiety and then this anxiety is reduced by the compulsive behavior. The client maintains and strengthens ritual because it decreased their anxiety by terminating the event that gives rise which decreases their anxiety to a tolerable level.
OCD
Well-balanced diet, food diary, eat only in front of people, and stay with them after they eat for at least a hour.
Bulimia nervosa
Thiamine
Aggressive behavior that is deliberate and repeated towards someone that is weaker, shy, or less able to defend themselves.
Bullying
List the withdrawal symptoms for alcoholism
Increased temp, tachycardia, HTN, vomiting, hand tremors, sweating, anxiety, agitation, insomnia, hallucinations, and seizures.
Most extreme manifestation of anxiety. Abrupt onset of physical symptoms of terror, may last up to a hour, and their first instinct is to escape to a safer place.
Panic Disorder
Maintain independence of the client, supportive treatment, and ensure their safety. Talk to the caregivers about how they are feeling and doing.
Alzheimer's disease
Monitor for respiratory depression, orthostatic hypotension. Elderly can have paradoxical reaction of confusion and increased anxiety.
Alprazolam
What are some signs that a client is about to commit suicide?
Start giving away possessions and putting affairs in order.
Need to control this and how long after their last drink will it begin and can last
Detoxification and 6 hours that can last for 48 hours.
Hyperactive, exaggerated sense of own importance, reckless/impulsive behavior, rapid thinking and speech, irrational ideas, angry, aggressive, insomnia.
Manic phase of bipolar disorder
You would set a realistic educational goals and highest level of function, reward positive behavior or response, and support and help the family.
Autism Spectrum disorder
These are the care a nurse would do for a client that has been just admitted for suicidal ideations.
Ask open-ended questions, assess current mood, ask if there is substance abuse, ensure their safety.