Herbs/Supplements
This disorder involves persistent sadness or loss of interest, plus symptoms such as sleep changes, appetite changes, low energy, poor concentration, feelings of worthlessness or guilt, and possible suicidal thoughts. Symptoms last at least 2 weeks and cause impairment.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This principle means avoiding unnecessary retraumatization by giving clients choices, explaining procedures before touching them, and asking permission when possible.
What is trauma-informed care?
This mood stabilizer is used to treat and prevent manic episodes. It has a narrow therapeutic range, requires blood level monitoring, and toxicity may cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, tremor, confusion, ataxia, and seizures.
Lithium
This condition includes a persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood with increased energy for at least 4 days, but symptoms are not severe enough to cause marked impairment or require hospitalization.
What is hypomania?
This calming herb is commonly used for anxiety and sleep, but it can increase sedation when taken with benzodiazepines, alcohol, opioids, or other CNS depressants.
What is valerian root?
This disorder involves a pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to criticism or rejection. The person often wants close relationships but avoids them because of fear of embarrassment, disapproval, or not being accepted.
What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?
This medication is sometimes used for PTSD-related nightmares because it blocks alpha-1 adrenergic receptors and decreases the body’s noradrenergic stress response during sleep. The nurse should monitor for orthostatic hypotension, dizziness, and syncope.
What is prazosin?
This defense mechanism is common in borderline personality disorder and involves seeing people or situations as all good or all bad. It can also be used to pit nursing staff against each other as a manipulation tactic by the patient.
What is splitting?
This supplement is naturally involved in the sleep-wake cycle and is often used for insomnia, but it can cause daytime drowsiness and may interact with sedatives or anticoagulants.
What is melatonin?
This disorder involves a pattern of unstable relationships, intense fear of abandonment, impulsivity, mood reactivity, chronic feelings of emptiness, inappropriate anger, and recurrent self-harm or suicidal behavior. The person may alternate between idealizing and devaluing others.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This type of therapy uses role-play, acting, and guided dramatic reenactment to help clients explore emotions, relationships, conflicts, and past experiences in a safe group setting.
What is psychodrama?
This non-benzodiazepine anxiolytic is used for generalized anxiety disorder, has no major abuse potential, and does not work immediately. It may take several weeks to become effective, so it is not useful for stopping an acute panic attack.
What is buspirone?
This type of crisis occurs after an unexpected external event, such as a natural disaster, violent assault, serious accident, or sudden traumatic loss.
What is an adventitious crisis?
This disorder involves the sudden onset of one or more psychotic symptoms, such as delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, or grossly disorganized/catatonic behavior. The episode lasts at least 1 day but less than 1 month, followed by a full return to previous level of functioning.
What is Brief Psychotic Disorder?
This medication is used for moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease and works as an NMDA receptor antagonist. It helps regulate glutamate activity and may support cognition and daily functioning, but it does not cure dementia. The nurse should monitor for dizziness, confusion, headache, constipation, and hypertension.
What is memantine, also known as Namenda?
This potentially fatal complication can occur when nutrition is restarted too quickly after prolonged starvation. The nurse should monitor for hypophosphatemia, fluid shifts, cardiac dysrhythmias, weakness, confusion, and respiratory failure.
What is refeeding syndrome?
This disorder involves at least 2 weeks of psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, disorganized or catatonic behavior, or negative symptoms. A major mood episode is also present for most of the illness, but there must be at least 2 weeks of psychosis without mood symptoms.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
This common therapeutic approach uses open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summarizing to help clients explore ambivalence and strengthen their own motivation for change.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
This medication is used for alcohol use disorder and works by causing an unpleasant reaction if alcohol is consumed, including flushing, throbbing headache, nausea, vomiting, chest pain, weakness, hypotension, and confusion. The client must avoid alcohol-containing products such as some cough syrups, mouthwashes, and sauces.
What is disulfiram? (Antabuse)