Medications
Ativan/lorazepam is a benzodiazapine and the nurse is alert to detect these common side effects that are intensified with alcohol use. (Name at least three)
What are drowsiness, dizziness, confusion, memory problems, and impaired coordination
The nursing action of remaining with the client is applicable in many situations. This diagnosis could calm the client if the nurse remains with them during the highest acute phase.
What is panic level anxiety or stage four anxiety?
When a client is verbally abusive and yelling at the nurse, the first action the nurse would take is this.
What is establish a professional and positive working relationship?
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross theorized these stages of grief.
What is DABDA:
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance?
This is one of six indicators of Mental Health.
What is...
•Positive attitude toward self
•Growth, development, and the ability to achieve self-actualization
•Integration
•Autonomy
•Perception of reality
•Environmental mastery
This medication is used to treat OUD (opioid use disorder).
What is methadone?
This response is characterized by intense preoccupation with memories of a deceased person years after the loss has occurred.
What is a prolonged grief response?
The nurse can only perform this function if the patient becomes a danger to him/herself or to others while admitted in a mental health facility. Hint: an order is required.
What is restrain a client (physical or chemical)?
The highest level of Maslow's Hierarchy.
What is self-actualization?
This is maladaptive responses to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are incongruent with the local and cultural norms and that interfere with the individual’s social, occupational, and/or physical functioning
Mental Illness
This medication primarily used to treat chronic alcohol use disorder (AUD).
What is disulfiram or Antabuse?
Both of these mental illness disorders are known to manifest as hallucinations in clients. (Name one)
What are schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder?
This a treatment approach in mental health that emphasizes the environment as a therapeutic agent. It focuses on creating a safe, supportive, and structured environment that promotes healing, recovery, and positive behavioral change.
What is therapeutic milieu?
This defense mechanism involves unconsciously blocking unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or impulses from entering conscious awareness. It's like pushing something unpleasant out of sight, but it doesn't disappear entirely; it remains in the unconscious.
What is REPRESSION?
Two primary psychological response patterns to stress.
What are anxiety and grief?
This antagonist medication is used to reverse the effects of benzodiazepines, a class of drugs that can cause sedation, muscle relaxation, and anxiety reduction.
What is flumazenil or Romazicon?
These are examples of psychoneurotic responses to anxiety.
What are
•Anxiety disorders
•Somatic symptom and related disorders
•Dissociative disorders?
The professional nursing model assists in creating a therapeutic milieu and developing client trust by performing what actions? (Name 2)
Responding with concrete/easy to understand actions.
Contagious calmness
Respect for human dignity.
Nurse's care of self and others.
Allowing clients to make a choice about their care and activity preserves this ethical principle.
What is Autonomy?
This is the “emotional brain” of humans and can help in stabilizing emotional behavior.
What is the Limbic System?
Abilify/Aripiprazole is an atypical antipsychotic medication used to treat a variety of mental health conditions and comes with many common side effects. Name one of the two uncommon side effects that may require intervention.
What is tardive dyskinesia or compulsive disorders?
This is a feeling of discomfort and apprehension related to fear of impending danger.
A depressed client has verbalized a plan to kill themselves in great detail. This is the priority nursing intervention with this patient.
What is 1:1 Suicide Precautions?
This is your body's internal clock, a 24-hour cycle that regulates sleep-wake patterns, hormone release, and other bodily functions.
What is circadian rhythm?
These pre-existing conditions influence how a message is communicated, received, or interpreted. (Name 2)
Values, attitudes, and beliefs
Culture and religion
Social status
Gender
Age or developmental level
Developmental physiological alterations
Environment in which the transaction takes place