PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG CLASSES
SIDE EFFECTS
DISORDERS
THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS
Medications
100

What drug class is fluoxetine?

What is a SSRI?

100
Motor inner driven restless (tapping foot incessantly, rocking in chair)
What is akathisia?
100

Mood which lasts at least 2 weeks and is accompanied with symptoms such as anhedonia and difficulty concentrating.

What is depression?

100
Nurse mirrors patient's overt and covert message with use of patient's key words.
What is restating?
100

This class of medications is appropriate for patients experiencing a panic attack

What are benzodiazepines

200

Which drug class do we need to be concerned with dietary interactions, including cheeses, and wine.

What are MAOIs?

200
Symptoms of dry mouth, blurred vision, urinary retention, and constipation are caused by this.
What is muscarinic-cholinergic blockade
200
Disorder which involves lability in mood from depression to hypo-mania or mania.
What is bipolar disorder?
200
Technique used to relieve stress in body by envisioning images that are calming and health enhancing.
What is Guided Imagery?
200

The patient is experiencing severe nausea, vomiting, confusion, and coarse hand tremors. What medication caused this?

Lithium toxicity

300
Class of drugs used to address both positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
What are atypical anti-psychotics?
300
Serious condition that occurs with interactions between foods or other drugs with MAOIs.
What is a hypertensive crisis?
300
Characterized by unstable, intense relationships, impulsivity, rapid mood shifts, self-mutilation, fear of abandonment, splitting, and anger.
What is border line personality disorder?
300
Involves a physical and social setting that focuses on effecting positive change.
What is therapeutic milieu?
300

What class of medications causes extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS)

What are antipsychotics

400
Drugs which are used for seizure disorders and psychiatric disorders, especially for bipolar disorder.
What are mood stabilizers?
400
Serious and irreversible side effects which involve involuntary tonic muscle spasms involving tongue, fingers, toes, neck, trunk, or pelvis.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
400

Characterized by the presence of inability to focus, difficulty sleeping, increased stress response, and appetite changes. Symptoms present more than 6 months

What is generalized anxiety disorder?

400
Staff meetings and treatment plan are used to maintain control and minimize manipulation by a patient experiencing acute mania. The goal is to provide this for the patient.
What is consistency?
400

What are the symptoms or serotonin syndrome?

Nausea, vomiting, sweating, shivers, muscle twitching, muscle rigidity

500

Drugs which address schizophrenia's positive symptoms only.

What are typical anti-psychotics?

500
A rare but potentially fatal syndrome involving muscle rigidity, fever, and elevated WBC's.
What is Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome?
500

Symptoms present as hallucinations, delusions, anhedonia, and flat affect.

What is schizophrenia?

500
When a patient is acting out on a unit with verbal and/or physical aggressiveness, this is a priority.
What is safety for patient and others?
500

What condition increases the risk for lithium toxicity? 

dehydration

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