Feeding & Eating Disorders
This disorders is characterized by excessive overeating in a short period of time with a loss of control.
What is Binge Eating Disorder?
The type of outpatient treatment that would typically be done for mild to moderate anxiety disorders.
What is CBT or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
A depressive disorder that involves low-level depressive feelings for more than 2 years in adults and 1 year in children.
What is persistent depressive disorder
This type of care focuses on patient's past experiences of violence or trauma.
What is trauma-informed care?
Someone with this personality disorder might hold a pattern of disregarding and violating the rights of others.
What is anti-social personality disorder?
A diagnosis that describes a patient that has been eating laundry detergent for the last three months of her pregnancy.
What is Pica?
The two categories of defenses against anxiety are:
What are adaptive and maladaptive
A mood disorder that is characterized by the presence or history of at least one hypomanic episode.
What is Bipolar II Disorder
If a nurse suspects abuse of an elderly patient, this is an obligation.
What is reporting the suspected abuse to appropriate agencies?
A nurse assesses an 18 year old female who has a history of parental and peer rejection. She has difficulty going to school and ignores her responsibilities. Although further assessment is needed, her symptoms are in keeping with what personality disorder?
What is avoidant personality disorder?
The most important nursing intervention in someone recently diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa.
What is weight restoration?
What is the anxiety disorder that someone might experience after seeing a co-worker have a heart attack and pass away in front of them?
What is PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
A medical treatment that can be used to treat mood disorders including depression and bipolar disorder.
What is ECT.
The cycle of violence includes these three stages.
What are tension building, acute battering, and the honeymoon stage?
When caring for someone with this personality disorder it would be important for the nurse to role model empathy, recognise the source of the behaviours, and avoid engaging in power struggles.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
The most serious medical concern in persons living with bulimia nervosa.
What is electrolyte imbalance?
The four levels of anxiety as defined by Pepleu
What are mild, moderate, severe, and panic
Name three parts of the nursing assessment when assessing someone with a mood disorder.
Can include: affect, thought process, suicidal ideation, mood, feelings, physical behaviour, communication, and spirituality.
Name two of the three types of crisis.
What are maturational crisis, situational crisis, or adventitious crisis?
This model is the theory that explains psychopathology of how personality disorders emerge from multifaceted factors of biology and environment.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
This class of medication may be used in treating rigid thinking in someone with an eating disorder.
What are atypical antipsychotics?
An anxiety disorder that involves psychological symptoms presenting themselves as physical symptoms.
What is conversion disorder
These side effects characterize what condition that may affect persons taking medication for depression - fever, elevated blood pressure, tachycardia, restlessness, hostility, and seizures.
What is serotonin syndrome.
Name two groups of people who are vulnerable to abuse.
Who are children, women, older adults, and persons living with disabilities?
A nurse is assessing someone who engages in NSSI, has active suicidal ideation, has previously tried to end their own life, and brings alcohol in their purse to the assessment. Based on these objective findings the nurse might think this person is experiencing what mental illness?
What is borderline personality disorder?