Behavior
What is the term used for the beginning stage of schizophrenia, characterized by a lack of energy and complaints of multiple physical problems?
Prodromal
When the patient with a psychosis is thought to be a danger to self or others, by what method should the patient be admitted to the hospital?
Probating
What disorder is a severe form of self-starvation that can lead to death?
Anorexia nervosa
The nurse explains that an alternative therapy that uses essential oils and scented candles to help a patient relax and focuses on the atmosphere of the moment is ______________.
Aromatherapy
A person with ___________ is out of touch with reality and has severe personality deterioration, impaired perception and judgement, hallucinations and delusions.
Psychosis
Dementia is an organic mental disease that usually a slow and progressive loss of intellectual function. This disease is usually secondary to what problem?
Cerebral disease
The nurse cautions a patient to watch his step. What response indicates concrete thinking?
The patient fixedly begins to watch his feet
What is the prognosis for a schizophrenic patient who is exhibiting positive behaviors, having fewer structural changes in the brain and responding to drug therapy?
Good
What is the term for a long-term and intense form of psychotherapy developed by Sigmund Freud that allows a patient’s unconscious thoughts to be brought to the surface?
Psychoanalysis
A patient is frequently late for appointments because he goes back to his room numerous times to assure himself that none of his belongings have been stolen. What does this behavior represent?
Obsessive-compulsive
The patient talks with his dead brother and arranges furniture so that his brother will have a place to sit. How should the nurse document this behavior?
Hallucination
A young man with malaria spikes a temperature of 105°F (40.5°C) and begins to hallucinate. How should the nurse assess this?
Delirium
A 14-year-old survivor of a school shooting screams and dives under a table when firecrackers go off. What does this behavior represent?
Posttraumatic stress disorder
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders, V (DSM-V), is used by most hospitals and is the current tool used to examine mental health and illness. What approach does the DSM-V use to classify mental disorders by holistic assessment?
Multiaxial system
When a patient demonstrates accelerated heart rate, trembling, choking, and chest pain along with acute, intense, and overwhelming anxiety, the nurse should recognize that the patient is most likely experiencing what condition?
Panic
A patient believes himself to be the president of the United States and that terrorists are trying to kidnap him. The nurse records these observations as which type of behavior?
Positive behavior
A patient admitted for delirium demonstrates increased disorientation and agitation only during the evening and nighttime. What is the term applied to this type of delirium?
Sundowning syndrome
A home health nurse has a patient who is taking lithium. What should be included in the teaching plan?
Have her drug blood level checked every month
What is the typical schedule for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?
10 treatments over several weeks
The patient complains of recurrent, multiple physical ailments for which there is no organic cause and typically arise as a result of a psychological trigger. How should the nurse identify this?
Somatic symptom disorder
The home health nurse assesses a patient who creates elaborate excuses for not leaving home. Further questioning reveals the patient had not left home for 6 months. How should this be documented?
Agoraphobia
____________ is a profound, disabling mental illness that is characterized by bizarre, non-reality-based thinking, with gross distortion of reality.
Schizophrenia
The nurse recognizes that researchers have identified that hereditary factors account for what percentage of mood disorders?
60% to 80%
A ______________ is a false, fixed belief that cannot be corrected by feedback and that others in the same cultural context do not accept as true.
Delusion
The nurse instructs a patient who has just been prescribed a protocol of fluoxetine HCl (Prozac) that the drug takes how long to take affect?
2 to 4 weeks