Delirium
This is the first priority for a nurse when a patient is showing signs of delirium.
What is ensuring patient safety?
This trait involves the ability to quickly overcome difficulties.
What is resilience?
Parents are encouraged to set these in order to provide consistency and structure at home.
What are limits or boundaries?
Fear of public speaking and being negatively evaluated in social situations describes this anxiety disorder.
What is social anxiety disorder (or social phobia)?
This disorder is marked by excessive accumulation of items, sometimes causing unsafe living conditions?
What is hoarding disorder?
This term describes false sensory experiences often seen in delirium—visual ones are the most common.
What are hallucinations?
This less restrictive alternative to seclusion involves sending a child to a designated room to encourage self-control.
What is time-out?
For an accurate ADHD diagnosis, symptoms must impair functioning in this number of settings.
What is two?
Anxiety disorders often coexist with this mood disorder, which can worsen overall functioning.
What is major depressive disorder?
This disorder involves obsessive thoughts about imagined body defects.
What is body dysmorphic disorder?
These two time tools can be placed in a patient’s room to support orientation.
What are a clock and a calendar?
Along with patients, data can be gathered from these two other groups involved in a child’s care.
What are parents and teachers (or caregivers)?
This nonstimulant medication used to treat ADHD is preferred in patients with anxiety or substance use disorder and works as a selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor.
What is atomoxetine?
This disorder causes intense fear of places or situations that may be difficult to escape, often leading to avoidance and needing company to feel safer.
What is agoraphobia?
This term describes ritualistic behaviors performed to reduce anxiety temporarily.
What are compulsions?
These are real stimuli that are misinterpreted, often causing fear—but nurses can explain and correct them.
What are illusions?
This type of activity, such as using puppets or drawings, helps assess younger children.
What is play therapy or therapeutic play?
ADHD is often comorbid with this disorder.
What is oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) or conduct disorder (CD)?
Unlike benzodiazepines, this anti-anxiety medication doesn’t cause dependence and is used for long-term treatment.
What is buspirone?
This physical consequence often results from excoriation disorder.
What are sores, infections, or scars?
This basic physiological need must be assessed because its deprivation can worsen delirium.
What is sleep?
This therapy uses literature to help children express emotions and understand their experiences.
What is bibliotherapy?
Poor frustration tolerance and frequent temper outbursts in ADHD may reflect this emotional symptom.
What is labile mood?
At this level of anxiety, problem-solving is no longer possible and a person may appear dazed or confused.
What is severe anxiety?
This disorder involves repetitive hair pulling that can leave bald patches.
What is trichotillomania?