Mental Health 1
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 law protects the confidentiality of patient health information in the U.S.
What is HIPAA?
This principle supports a patient’s right to make their own decisions.
What is autonomy?
This term is used to describe having thoughts of suicide.
Suicidal ideations
This is the priority nursing action when a client expresses suicidal ideation with a plan.
What is ensuring safety / initiating suicide precautions?
This is the earliest symptom of alcohol withdrawal, often beginning within hours after the last drink.
What is tremors?
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 intervention is most appropriate for a client experiencing a panic attack.
What is staying with the client and using calm, simple communication?
This chronic phase is characterized by memory loss and confabulation.
What is Korsakoff syndrome?
These medications are used to treat patients with Schizophrenia.
Antipsychotics
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 condition involves fear of having a serious illness despite minimal or no symptoms.
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
This syndrome results from chronic alcohol use and deficiency of this vitamin.
What is Wernicke’s encephalopathy?
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
This technique involves restating the client’s message to show understanding.
What is paraphrasing?
This disorder involves intentional production of symptoms to assume the sick role.
What is Factitious Disorder?
This is the most important initial nursing intervention for a patient with delirium.
What is identifying and treating the underlying cause?
This disorder is characterized by a pattern of angry, defiant behavior toward authority figures.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
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 response type blocks communication by giving unsolicited advice or judgments.
What is non-therapeutic communication?
This word is used to describe talking slow and moving slow.
Psychomotor Retardation
This disease is the most common cause of dementia and involves progressive cognitive decline.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
This is the most important element to maintain in a therapeutic milieu.
What is safety?
This class of medications can cause tardive dyskinesia with long-term use.
What are antipsychotics?
This disorder is characterized by at least one manic episode, often alternating with depression
What is Bipolar I Disorder
This disorder may develop after exposure to a traumatic event and includes flashbacks and hypervigilance.
What is PTSD?
This principle ensures that clients understand risks and benefits before agreeing to treatment.
What is informed consent?
This disorder involves physical symptoms without a clear medical cause, causing significant distress.
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?
This life-threatening reaction to antipsychotics includes muscle rigidity, fever, and autonomic instability.
What is Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome?
This therapy focuses on structuring the environment to promote behavioral change.
What is milieu therapy?
This antipsychotic requires monitoring for agranulocytosis.
What is Clozapine?
This anxiety disorder involves recurrent, unexpected panic attacks and fear of future attacks
What is Panic Disorder
This mechanism involves justifying behaviors with logical reasons to avoid the true explanation.
(What is rationalization?
This defense mechanism involves attributing one’s own unacceptable feelings to others.
What is projection?
This condition is characterized by an acute onset of confusion and fluctuating levels of consciousness.
What is Delirium?
This is the priority action when NMS is suspected.
What is stopping the antipsychotic medication?
In this model, a genetic predisposition is referred to as this.
What is diathesis?
This class of antidepressants can cause a hypertensive crisis when combined with tyramine-rich foods.
What are MAOIs?
This disorder includes intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors performed to reduce anxiety.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
This severe form of alcohol withdrawal includes confusion, agitation, hallucinations, and autonomic instability.
What are Delirium Tremens?
This term describes a patient’s unconscious redirection of feelings toward the nurse.
What is transference?
This term describes the need for increased amounts of a substance to achieve the same effect.
What is tolerance?
This medication is used to reverse opioid overdose.
What is Naloxone?
This disorder involves violating the rights of others and societal norms.
What is Conduct Disorder?
This thought disorder involves jumping rapidly between unrelated ideas.
What is flight of ideas?
This term describes the outward expression of emotion.
What is affect?
This defense mechanism involves refusing to accept reality.
What is denial?
This state involves a lack of movement and responsiveness to the environment.
What is catatonia?
This electrolyte imbalance during refeeding can contribute to dangerous heart rhythm disturbances.
What is hypokalemia?
This is the primary justification for using restraints in a psychiatric setting.
What is prevention of harm to self or others?
This intervention involves placing a patient alone in a room to decrease stimulation.
What is seclusion?