Psychopharmacology
What class of drug is Alprazolam (Xanax)?
What is a benzodiazepine?
Which acronym represents the nonverbal technique for active listening?
What is SOLER?
What is the first step of the nursing process?
What is assessment?
According to Freud, which part of the personality operates on the pleasure principle?
What is the id?
Which psychotherapy was developed by Aaron Beck to address automatic negative thoughts?
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Which medication requires monitoring lithium levels for toxicity in bipolar disorder?
What is lithium?
What is the term for when a patient transfers feelings from past relationships to the nurse?
What is transference?
Which step involves setting measurable goals for the patient?
What is outcomes identification?
In Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development, which stage involves developing a sense of trust or mistrust?
What is Trust vs. Mistrust?
Which therapy focuses on regulating emotions and is used for patients with Borderline Personality Disorder?
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)?
Name a major side effect of taking Clozapine (Clozaril)?
What is agranulocytosis?
Name the phase where the nurse and patient create a trust-based relationship.
What is the orientation phase?
What is the role of the nurse during the implementation phase?
What is carrying out planned interventions?
Sullivan’s interpersonal theory emphasizes the role of what in personality development?
What are interpersonal relationships?
Name a common spiritual nursing diagnosis for patients experiencing a lack of purpose or meaning in life.
What is spiritual distress?
SSRIs can lead to which life-threatening condition if combined with St. John’s Wort?
What is serotonin syndrome?
In therapeutic communication, which technique involves redirecting the patient's questions back to them to recognize their own feelings?
What is reflection?
Which documentation method organizes charting based on patient problems and uses a SOAP format?
What is problem-oriented recording?
According to Erikson, during which stage do individuals struggle with the conflict of Generativity vs. Stagnation?
What is middle adulthood (30-65 years)?
What concept describes structuring a therapeutic environment to promote psychosocial health?
What is Milieu therapy?
Which antipsychotics have a higher risk of extrapyramidal side effects?
What are typical (first-generation) antipsychotics?
What type of communication technique involves verbalizing the implied and exploring the unspoken?
What is verbalizing the implied?
Name a case management tool used to organize and standardize patient care.
What are Critical Pathways of Care (CPCs)?
Which phase of Mahler’s theory of object relations involves an infant learning independence and returning to the caregiver for emotional refueling?
What is the Rapprochement subphase?
In Reality Therapy, patients work to fulfill five basic needs. Name two of them
What are power, belonging, freedom, fun, and survival?