SAFETY & ETHICS
This type of safety risk describes something a patient could potentially hang themselves on.
What is a ligature risk?
This theory lists "self-actualization" as the end-goal for human achievement.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
These medications increase a patient's risk for EPS symptoms and permanent motor function damage.
What are antipsychotics?
This should be performed every four hours on a standard psychiatric patient.
Mental status examination
This type of therapy focuses on restructuring distorted thoughts and beliefs.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? (CBT)
Verbal de-escalation & PO medication are considered this type of intervention compared to seclusion & restraint.
What is a least restrictive intervention?
This part of the personality structure is responsible for reality testing and problem solving.
What is the ego?
This category of medications utilize GABA to treat patients with anxiety.
What are antianxiety medications?
Also acceptable:
Benzodiazepines
Sedative-Hypnotics
Buspirone
The presence of auditory or visual hallucinations on a mental status examination.
What is altered perception?
This psychiatric nurse developed the first nurse-patient relationship framework.
Who is Hildegard Peplau?
This assessment can be used to determine a patient's suicide risk.
What is an ASQ?
or
What is a mental status examination?
Classical conditioning was developed under this theory by Ivan Pavlov.
What is the behavioral theory?
These foods are contraindicated in patients taking MAOIs.
What are tyramine foods?
Also acceptable:
Processed cheese/cured meats
Avocados
Pickled/Smoke foods
Wine
A patient that has low awareness of their current mental status or situation.
What is poor insight?
This stage in Peplau's theory focuses on setting rules and expectations as well as establishing treatment place, time, date, and duration.
What is the Orientation Phase?
This is a type of admission status for a patient at risk of harming themselves or others.
This theory was developed by Sigmund Freud that describes personality structure and stages of development.
What is psychoanalytic theory?
This medication used to stabilize mood requires daily troughs drawn when starting due to its risk for toxicity.
What is Lithium?
Examples of objective data collected during a mental status exam.
Appearance
Speech patterns
Behavior
Level of Consciousness
Affect
What is reflecting?
A patient that is expressing acute suicidal thoughts and intent should be placed under this type of supervision.
What is 1:1 (one to one) supervision?
This theory describes 8 life stages in which one stage impacts progression to the next.
These two medication classes are used together to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
What are cholinesterase inhibitors and NMDA receptor antagonists?
Also acceptable:
donepezil & memantine
A patient lacks this when they are unable to keep themselves safe from suicidal impulses.
What is judgement?
This blurring of roles describes unconscious feelings from the patient towards the healthcare worker.
What is transference?