Psychiatric Meds
The most common class of drugs used to treat anxiety disorders
Benzodiazepines
This disorder is characterized by fear, panic, and overwhelming worry.
Anxiety Disorder
This nurse knows that this Lithium level is toxic and can lead to death.
1.5 mEq/L
These medications are used to treat patients with Schizophrenia.
Antipsychotics
This term is used to describe having thoughts of suicide.
Suicidal ideations
This drug class must not be combined with any other psychiatric medications.
MAOIs
This disorder is characterized by hallucinations and delusions.
Schizophrenia
This nursing caring for a psychiatric patient experiencing alcohol withdrawal knows to monitor for what symptom that is treated with Benzodiazepines.
Seizures
These medications are used to treat patients with ADHD that have no contraindications.
Stimulants
This term is used to describe excessive amount and rate of speech with unrelated ideas.
Flight of Ideas
This medication is used for the reversal of Benzodiazpines.
Flumazenil (Romazicon)
This disorder is characterized by feelings of hopelessness, anhedonia, sadness lasting for more than 2 weeks.
Major Depressive Disorder
The nurse caring for an alcoholic patient 6 hours after his last drink, knows to assess for this group of symptoms.
Withdrawal symptoms
These medications are used to treat patients experiencing alcohol withdrawal.
Benzodiazepines
This term is defined by a fixed false belief not based in reality.
Delusion
This medication used commonly used to treat bipolar disorder requires serum level monitoring.
Lithium
This Cluster A disorder is characterized by odd behavior, "eccentric" distorted reality, suspiciousness, and difficulty with close relationships.
Schizotypal Disorder
These precautions should be implemented for Schizophrenic patients based on the medications prescribed.
Fall precautions
The medications are used to treat depression, anxiety and bipolar disorders.
Antidepressants
Name calling, belittling, screaming, yelling, destroying property, and making threats of violence describes this term.
Psychological abuse
This condition is caused by toxicity of medications used to treat depression.
Serotonin Syndrome
This Cluster B disorder is characterized by impulsivity, risk-taking behavior, fear of abandonment and unstable realtionships.
Borderline Personality Disorder
To establish rapport with psychiatric patient the nurse asks these types of questions.
Open-ended questions
This group of medications is used to treat bipolar disorder.
Anticonvulsants
This word is used to describe talking slow and moving slow.
Psychomotor Retardation