Mood Disorders
This mood disorder involves long periods of extreme sadness, hopelessness, and/or fatigue that last for two weeks or more.
What is major depressive disorder?
This type of thought disorder is an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, although it may have its basis in reality
What is delusions?
This disorder causes patients to imbue copious amounts of water and can lead to complications such as seizures or death
what is polydipsia?
This medication is one of the most common medications for bipolar disorder that requires regular blood tests to prevent toxicity; side effects include tremor, n/v/d, renal & thyroid impairment, and weight gain.
What is Lithium?
What important safety issue should the nurse assess in all clients with severe depression?
What is suicidal thoughts?
A depressive disorder with hypomania is known as which disorder?
What is Bipolar II disorder
This is a sensation or sensory perception that a person experiences in the absence of a relevant external stimulus
What is hallucinations?
A patient is in a happy mood and then quickly becomes angry, and then starts crying...What type of mood/affect is this?
What is labile?
Name one of the anticholinergic side effects
What is Any one: increased heart rate, constipation, dry mouth, orthostatic hypotension ?
What is the term for providing care that is respectful of, and responsive to, individual patient preferences, needs and values, and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.
What is patient-centered care?
This procedure has been found to be effective in individuals who do not respond to antipsychotic medications and has been touted as giving the most rapid control of either mania or depression in bipolar disorder
What is ECT?
This patient is withdrawn, with a flat/blunted affect, exhibits a neutral mood, anhedonia, and is apathetic--which are all part of what type of symptoms?
What is negative symptoms?
This symptom of type I bipolar disorder in which the patient's mood state is abnormally heightened and accompanied by hyperactivity and a reduced need for sleep.
What is mania?
This is the first line medication treatment for catatonia
What is benzodiazepines?
Which is NOT a nursing intervention for schizophrenia?
-Discuss trauma effects
-Look into how hallucinations are experienced by the client
-Recognizes the client’s delusions as the client’s perception of the environment.
What is "discuss trauma effects"?
To receive this diagnosis, someone must meet all the primary criteria for schizophrenia and have prominent mood disorder symptoms as well.
What is schizoaffective disorder?
This is a phenomenon that occurs in people with psychiatric illnesses (usually schizophrenia), occurs when a person's speech is suddenly interrupted by silences that may last a few seconds to a minute or longer.
What is thought blocking?
A patient recently began pacing around their room frequently and when asked why they are doing it they state, "I feel like I can't sit still". What common complication of antipsychotic medication therapy does this suggest?
What is akisthesia?
What is a drug caused movement disorder with late onset that can be permanent?
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
When a client is hallucinating and sees a giant spider coming to bite her, what should the nurse say first?
What is "I understand you see a spider but I don't see a spider" or "You are safe in the hospital" or "There is no spider"
This speech is at an accelerated or frenetic pace that conveys urgency seemingly inappropriate to the situation. It is often difficult for listeners to interrupt and the speech may be too rapid to understand
What is pressured speech?
An inability to answer a question without giving excessive, unnecessary detail.This differs from tangential thinking, in that the person does eventually return to the original point.
What is circumstantial speech?
These are predictors of violence in mental health clients (name one)
What is history of violence, male, young, cormorbid substance abuse history, history of psychiatric illness, and positive psychiatric symptoms?
Name the 8 rights of medication administration
What is: right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, right time, right reason, right response, right documentation
The following is an example of what type of therapeutic communication, "So, it sounds like you are saying is you feel sad today"
What is reflecting?