Medications
This class of drugs is most commonly used to treat schizophrenia.
What are antipsychotics? (SGAs)
What are: ideation, plan, means, intent.
List 5 symptoms to assess in a patient admitted for depression?
What are: anhedonia, mood, sleep, appetite, energy, irritability, suicide, guilt, slowed thoughts / movements?
Withdrawal from these two substance can result in seizures.
What are alcohol and benzodiazepines.
In addition to benefiting from inpatient treatment, a patient must meet one of these 3 criteria to be involuntarily admitted for psychiatric reasons.
What are: harm to self, harm to others, cannot care for self due to mental health decompensation?
This is the therapeutic drug level for lithium.
What is 0.6 - 1.2 mEq/L?
This tool is currently the standard for assessing suicide.
What is the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (Columbia Scale / Columbia Suicide Scale)?
Delirium tremens (DTs ; severe alcohol withdrawal)
What are opioid withdrawal / detoxification and maintenance / relapse prevention.
A psychiatric patient has these rights (even when hospitalized involuntarily).
SSRIs carry a risk of this potentially life-threatening condition when combined with other serotonergic medications.
What is serotonin syndrome?
Among hospitalized patients, this is the highest risk suicide plan (following any means possible).
What is hanging / ligature.
The _____scale is used for assessing alcohol withdrawal and the ____ scale is used for assessing opioid withdrawal.
Bonus - these symptoms of opioid withdrawal are not measured in the alcohol withdrawal scale.
CIWA; COWS
Bonus: what are runny nose/runny eyes, goosebumps, musculosckeletal pain.
This medication, used to prevent relapse from alcohol, will cause vomiting, even with minimal intake of alcohol.
What is Antabuse (disulfiram)?
Infantilization and marginalization are examples of this mental health concept.
What is stigma?
This class of medications requires a tyramine restricted diet to avoid hypertensive crisis.
What are MAOIs?
This is the appropriate stance for verbal de-escalation.
What is ~45 degree angle, leg+ distance apart, hands visible?
This personality disorder is characterized by unstable relationships, intense fear of abandonment, and frequent mood swings.
What is borderline personality disorder?
CNS depressants have this potentially lethal complication, especially in high doses or when combining different CNS depressants.
What is respiratory depression?
Nurses are mandatory reporters for these groups.
Who are older adults and minors suspected of abuse?
This class of medications are first-line for treatment of alcohol withdrawal.
What are benzodiazepines.
Who are patients with cardiac or pulmonary conditions.
5 symptoms of PTSD.
What are: irritability, hypervigilance, insomnia, re-experiencing, avoidance, risk-taking behavior, distrust of others, low self-esteem/self-worth, nightmares, depression, restlessness, agitation, self-blame, exaggerated startle/hyperreactivity, paranoia.
As a general rule, when someone has high use of a CNS stimulant ('upper'), withdrawal symptoms are related to CNS _________, while high use of a CNS depressant ('downer'), will result in CNS _____ during withdrawal.
Bonus - this broad classification is potentially lethal during withdrawal.
Depression ; Excitability / activation.
Bonus - CNS depressants.
What are: name of condition, etiology, precipitating factors, beliefs about how to treat, treatments attempted, and prognosis?