Disorders & Diagnostics
This disorder is characterized by a "split" from reality including hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking.
What is schizophrenia
This mood stabilizer has a very narrow therapeutic index.
What is Lithium
This technique involves repeating the main idea of what the client just said to clarify understanding.
What is restating?
This is the priority nursing intervention for a patient experiencing a panic attack.
What is staying with the patient/safe calm presence?
This legal term refers to a client's right to be treated in the setting that provides the most freedom possible while remaining safe.
What is least restrictive alternative?
A patient with this personality disorder often displays a pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and impulsivity
What is Borderline Personality Disorder
Patients taking MAOI's must avoid this amino acid found in aged cheese and red wine to prevent a hypertensive crisis.
What is Tyramine?
"Why did you stop taking your meds?" is an example of this non-therapeutic communication block.
What is requesting an Explanation?
Before a patient undergoes ECT, the nurse must ensure they have been NPO and that this document is signed.
What is informed consent?
What is Duty to Warn?
There are two primary phases of Bipolar 1 Disorder, what are they?
What are Mania and Depression
This life-threatening reaction to antipsychotics is marked by "lead pipe" muscle rigidity, high fever, and autonomic instability.
What is Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS)?
What is Reflection
This is the first step a nurse should take when a patient begins to escalate toward physical aggression.
What is verbal de-escalation?
This type of admission occurs when a patient chooses to enter the hospital but is not fee to leave immediately if they are deemed a danger to self or others.
What is Voluntary Admission?
This "positive" symptom of schizophrenia involves the client inventing new words that have meaning to only themselves.
What are Neologisms
This class of antidepressants is usually the first-line treatment depression due to a lower side-effect profile.
What are SSRI's?
This is the term for when a client unconsciously displaces feelings for a significant person in their past on to the nurse.
What is Transference?
This is the term for the nurse's responsibility to provide a stable, safe, and therapeutic environment.
What is Milieu Therapy?
This ethical principle refers to the nurse's obligation to "do no harm"
What is Nonmaleficence?
To be diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder, symptoms must be present for at least _______
What is two weeks
This specific antipsychotic requires weekly WBC monitoring due to the risk of agranulocytosis.
What is Clozapine?
This phase of the nurse-client relationship is where the nurse and client identify goals and discuss boundaries for the first time.
What is the Orientation Phase?
For a patient with Anorexia Nervosa, the nurse should monitor the patient for this amount of time after meals.
What is 60 minutes?
Using a restraint on a patient as a form of punishment or for the convenience of staff is a legal violation known as this.
What is False Imprisonment?