Is the doc in?
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?
Individual pretends to be ill in order to receive emotional care, sympathy and attention
What is Factitious Disorder?
Medication a nurse administers prior to ECT to decrease secretions.
What is Atropine Sulfate?
a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, and identity
What is dissociative disorders?
a disturbance in the perception of oneself
Feelings of detachment from the environment
A sense of observing oneself from outside the body
What is depersonalization?
preoccupation and fear of having a serious disease.
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
"Treatment Modalities for somatic symptom disorders
Hint: involves communication
What is individual therapy, behavioral therapy, group therapy
Treatment for feeling severely depressed without relief from other alternatives (meds/therapy)? Last resort
What is ECT?
inability to recall important personal information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness
not due to the direct effects of substance use or a neurological or other medical condition.
What is dissociative amnesia?
described as an alteration in the perception of the external environment
Objects or people look “wrong” -- blurry, unnaturally sharp, too big, or too small.
What is derealization?
Physical complaints that cannot be explained medically with psychosocial distress and frequent visits to health care providers
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder
Treatment Modalities for somatic symptom disorders
Hint: Medications 2 classifications
What is antidepressants?
SNRI's,TCA's
What is anticonvulsants?
phenytoin (Dilantin),
carbamazepine (Tegretol)
ECT Contraindications or places client at higher risk for adverse events
What is cardiovascular disorders, stroke, or increased intracranial pressure?
condition is rare and usually under conditions of war or during natural disasters
What is dissociative amnesia?
which primary defense mechanism would the nurse expect to find in a client with dissociative amnesia?
What is repression?
Repression, which is the involuntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness, is the defense mechanism most used by clients experiencing amnesia. Freud believed that dissociative behaviors, including amnesia, occurred when individuals repressed distressing mental contents from conscious awareness. He believed that this mechanism protected the client from emotional pain.
neurological symptoms can include:
weakness or paralysis
Abnormal movement
Attacks or seizures
What is Conversion Disorder?
Must be ruled out first before any diagnosis can be made
What is medical conditions?
Nurse holds accountability to make sure this document is on the chart prior to ECT?
What is informed consent?
sudden, unexpected travel away from home with the inability to recall some or all of one’s past.
Dissociative Fugue
usually brings on an episode of depersonalization or derealization.
what is severe trauma or stress?
may represent emotions associated with a traumatic event that are too unacceptable to express and so are acceptably “converted” into physical symptoms.
What is conversion disorder?
Past experience with serious or life-threatening physical
illness, either personal or that of close relatives, can
predispose the person to this disorder
What is illness anxiety disorder?
A common side effect of ECT
What is Temporary memory loss?
Characterized by the existence of two or more personalities within a single individual
What is DID?
Priority goal for clients with somatic symptom disorders?
What is the ability to cope effectively without resorting to physical symptoms?