Medications
A medication that is tied to dietary by making sure the diet does not change from the norm.
What is Lithium carbonate?
The criteria that make any mental health disease process severe enough to meet DSM-V criteria.
What is interferes with your occupation and relationships?
This is the perspective of what is happening to a patient with anxiety as they escalate.
What is a narrowed lens of environment?
This is what a nurse's goal is when a client admits hopelessness and a plan to harm themselves.
What is prevent suicide?
This is where the nurse should stand in reference to safety from a potential aggressive patient
What is between the patient and the door
This is the drug given when a client overdoses on alprazolam.
What is flumenzil?
A disease characterized by an obsession with food and withholding due to a poor body image.
What is anorexia nervosa?
Delusions and hallucinations are often seen as key components of this diagnosis and are not avolition, anergy, and anhedonia.
What are positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
This is the emotional state of a suicidal client that is most dangerous.
What is hopelessness?
When a patient's nonverbals show tight jaw, furrowed brow, and thinned lips.
What is be prepared to protect yourself and the patient's around you?
This is the drug class given for a person that is already on an SSRI but needs something more.
An adjunctive.
Sweaty palms, dilated pupils, increased HR, increased BP, and decreased GI.
What is physiological stress response?
A progressive decline in thought processes, problem solving, and recognition followed by lack of clarity
What is dementia?
The nursing diagnosis for a burned out caregiver that has been burdened with total care for an extended period of time.
What is caregiver overload?
The test performed prior to starting an anti-psychotic drug.
What is an AIMS test?
The drug class that has food restrictions such chocolate, cheese, and wine.
What is an MAOI?
A client with this disease process uses ritualistic measures in response to automatic thoughts.
What is obsessive compulsive disorder?
Disease process characterized by at least 7 days of mania and then a potential depressive phase.
What is Bipolar I?
This client is extensively hyperactive, bothering clients around them and is unable to comprehend simple directions.
What is a manic patient?
This is what is done for a client that is a confirmed suicide attempt and being admitted for a 72 hour observation.
What is remove shoe strings, any clothing, and potential weapons from the client?
What is naloxzone?
A disorder characterized by the thought that rules do not apply to them as they do to everyone else.
What is anti-social personality disorder?
Unstable emotions often dramatically erratic in a short period of time.
What is borderline personality disorder?
This is what is most helpful for a healthcare team that has together been through a crises of large scale.
What is debriefing after a major catastrophe?
Shakes, nausea, and agitation that worsens quickly
What is delirium tremors?