Schizophrenia & related disorders
Important to ask patient experiencing auditory hallucinations
What are the voices telling you to do?
This class of medications may increase the risk of metabolic syndrome
What are atypical antipsychotics?
The term for when a client who was in the military experiences the feeling that they are back in the war...
What is a flashback?
This type of dementia has fluctuating cognition and visual hallucinations
What is Lewis-Body disease?
The term referring to a "made up word"; often seen in dementia and schizophrenia
Anhedonia, poor hygiene, lack of social skills, lack of emotion...
What are negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
Type of trauma that is "passed through several generations"
What is historical (generational trauma)?
Sudden onset mental status change usually brought on by substances, hospitalization, and infections
What is delirium?
The term pertaining to the inability to feel pleasure in everyday activities
What is anhedonia?
Hallucinations, delusions, paranoia....
What are positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
Medication most likely to cause agranulocystosis
What is clozapine?
Type of non-invasive therapy typically used to treat anxiety, depression and eating disorders
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Providing an older client with dementia with a PRN benzo can have this effect.
What is increased risk of falls?
The term for the condition in which a person with dementia can no longer smell
What is anosmia?
This stage of schizophrenia includes withdrawal, mood changes and isolation
What is the prodromal phase?
A potential adverse effect of atypical antipsychotics may include sore throats and muscle aches. This could lead to....
What is agranulocytosis?
Medication often used to help decrease the symptoms of PTSD
What is Paroxetine (SSRI)?
What is tetrabenazine?
A sign someone is in the "terminal" phase of Alzheimer's disease
What is the inability to sit up?
It is important to educate a schizophrenic client about hallucinations returning. This is known as....
What is relapse?
A shuffling, propulsive gait, masklike face, and drooling side effects caused by antipsychotics.
What is Pseudoparkinsonism?
Risk factors for PTSD include (name 3)
Who are:
* Medical personnel
* Military
* Experiencing frequent losses of life
One of the first things affected by a client with Alzheimer's consists of multitasking, planning, and organization
What is executive functioning?
The best nonpharmacological treatment for PTSD
What is EMDR (eye movement desensitization and Reprocessing therapy?
A diagnosis that typically only has a duration of symptoms from one to six months...
What is schizophreniform disorder?
A life-threatening side effect that includes severe HTN, tachycardia, tachypnea, and pyrexia rarely induced by antipsychotics.
What is Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome?
Medication often used to decrease nightmares in someone with PTSD
What is Prazosin
Interventions for a client experiencing delirium (name 5)
Monitor neurological status
Monitor vital signs
Decrease Stimuli
Arrange for a 1:1
Assess for pain
Psychiatric medication most commonly association with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
What is Lamotrigine (Lamictal)?