Assessment
Type of delusion involves believing that one has exceptional abilities, wealth, or fame.
What is a grandiose delusion?
(OER 11.3 Schizophrenia)
Hopelessness, worthlessness, helplessness
What is the risk for suicidality?
(OER 11.4 Applying the Nursing Process to Schizophrenia)
Excess neurotransmitter causing psychotic symptoms
What is dopamine?
Chlorpromazine; Haloperidol
Are medications in what drug class?
What are first generation (typical) antipsychotic?
(OER 11.3 Schizophrenia)
Mental health diagnosis that's a constellation of positive and negative symptoms that distances the patient from society.
What is schizophrenia?
(Giddens, 2017, pp. 337)
This drug worsens symptoms of psychosis in genetically predisposed individuals and causes more relapses and hospitalizations.
What is cannabis (marijuana)?
(OER 11.3 Schizophrenia)
Increased risk for violence to self and others
What is providing patient safety?
(OER 11.4 Applying the Nursing Process to Schizophrenia)
What is adherence?
Teach the client to slowly change position from lying to sitting to standing
What is orthostatic hypotension?
(OER 11.4 Applying the Nursing Process to Schizophrenia)
Awareness of having a mental disorder, of specific symptoms, social consequences, and need for treatment.
What is insight?
(Pathophysiology text, pp. 736)
Symptoms include: hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders, disorganized speech, and alterations in behaviors.
What are positive symptoms?
(OER 11.3 Schizophrenia)
Managing the ____ by reducing environmental stimuli and excessive noise.
What is the milieu?
(OER 11.4 Applying the Nursing Process to Schizophrenia)
Cluster of conditions that occur together, increasing the risk of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes.
What is metabolic syndrome?
(OER 11.3 Schizophrenia)
Muscle rigidity, fever, and autonomic instability is a medical emergency
What is what is neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
What is the abnormal involuntary movement scale?
False sensory perceptions not associated with real external stimuli.
What are hallucinations?
(OER 11.4 Applying the Nursing Process to Schizophrenia)
Type of therapy helps patients improve medication adherence, insight, and social functioning.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?
(Giddens, 2017, pp. 336)
When psychosis symptoms come back or get worse
What is relapse?
(OER 11.3 Schizophrenia)
Smacking and puckering lips, eye blinking, grimacing, and twitching
What is tardive dyskinesia?
(OER 11.3 Schizophrenia)
The painter who created The Starry Night suffered from severe hallucinations, including hearing voices
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
A pronounced slowness of movement
What is psychomotor retardation? (11.4 Applying the Nursing Process to Schizophrenia)
Create, adapt, and deliver ____ ____ to clients, including stress management, coping strategies, and management of delusions and hallucinations.
What is health teaching?
(OER 11.4 Applying the Nursing Process to Schizophrenia)
Type of therapy that educates family on nature of psychosis, its symptoms, and common management strategies.
What is family focused therapy?
(Giddens, 2017, pp. 336)
Dry mouth, constipation, and urinary retention
What are anticholinergic side effects?
(OER 11.3 Schizophrenia)
Proof of “mentally ill and dangerous to self or others” must be based on “clear and convincing evidence.”
What is involuntary admission?
(OER 5.5 Patient Rights)