Medications/MISC
Side effects of antipsychotic medications
LABS/MISC
Side effects and Patient teaching for antipsychotic medications
MISCELLANEOUS
100
Aripiprazole (Abilify) Quetiapine (Seroquel) Risperidone (Risperdal) Olanzapine (Zyprexa) Clozapine (Clozaril) Ziprasidone (Geodon) Paliperidone (Invega).
What are the Atypical antipsychotic medications?
100
Akathisia Parkinsonian Symptoms Dystonia Oculogyric crisis
What the symptoms of Extrapyramidal Symptoms (EPS)?
100
Baseline white blood cell count (WBC) and absolute neutrophil count (ANC).
What are the baseline labs that must be taken before the initiation of treatment with Clozapine and regularly thereafter?
100
weight gain orthostatic hypotension nausea sedation photosensitivity
What are some of the common side effects of antipsychotic medications?
100
Auditory, Visual, Tactile, Gustatory, Olfactory
What are the 5 senses that may produce false sensory perceptions known as hallucinations?
200
Haloperidol (Haldol) Fluphenazine (Prolixin) Chlorpromazine (Thorazine) Thiothixene (Navane) Perphanzine (Trilafon) Pimozide (Orap)
What are theTypical antipsychotic medications?
200
A chronic medication-related disorder characterized by: repetitive, involuntary, irregular movements of: - the face including the mouth and tongue (rapid eye movement, chewing, lip smacking, chewing) - abnormal movements of trunk and/or extremities.
What is the definition of Tardive Dyskinesia (TD)
200
Fasting blood sugar and lipid panel.
What are some of the labs required to screen for metabolic syndrome for patients taking antipsychotic medications?
200
Prolonged QT interval.
What is a potential sided effect of antipsychotic medications?
200
Do not argue or deny the belief. Use 'reasonable doubt' as a therapeutic technique: 'I understand that you believe this is true, but I find it hard to accept.'
What is a nursing intervention for the patient experiencing a disturbed thought process (delusion)?
300
Benztropine (Cogentin) Diphenhydramine (Benadryl)
What are the medications used to treat the extrapyramidal side effects (EPS) of antipsychotic medications?
300
Dry mouth Blurred vision Constipation Sedation
What are the symptoms known as anticholinergic side effects?
300
"Treatment of elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis with antipsychotic medications are at increased risk of death."
What is the black-box warning for all antipsychotic medications?
300
Delusions Hallucinations Disorganized thinking/speech Disorganized behavior
What are the postivie symptoms of Schizophrenia?
300
This type of therapy emphasizes group and social interaction; rules and expectations are mediated by peer pressure for normalization of adaptation.
What is milieu therapy?
400
Haloperidol decanoate Fluphenazine decanoate Risperidone consta Invega Sustenna
What are the long acting injectible forms of antipyschotic medications?
400
Agranulocytosis
What is the potentially fatal blood disorder in which the client's white blood cell (WBC) count can drop to extremely low levels that usually occurs within the first 3 months of treatment?
400
propranolol (Inderal) Tenormin (atenolol) lopressor (metoprolol)
What are examples of commonly prescribed beta adrenergic blocking agents that will have an additive effect of orthostatic hypotension when give concurrently with antipsychotic medications?
400
Affective flattening Alogia Avolition Anhedonia Social isolation
What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
400
This is a program of case management that takes a team approach in providing comprehensive, community-based psychiatric treatment and support to persons with serious and persistent mental illness
What is Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT)
500
An exaggerated feeling of importance, power, knowledge, or identity.
What is a delusion of grandeur?
500
A relatively rare, but potentially fatal complication that can occur within hours or even years after drug initiation. Symptoms include severe muscle rigidity, very high fever, tachycardia, tachypnea, fluctuations in Blood pressure, diaphoresis and rapid deterioration of mental status from stupor to coma.
What is Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS)?
500
The Folstein Mini Mental Status Exam
This is the test administered to rule out dementia.
500
The duty of the therapist to warn the intended victim or notify the police when a threat is made to harm another.
What is Tarasoff Warning?
500
Advise clients to avoid excessive exposure to sunlight, to use sunscreen, and to wear protective clothing.
What is a nursing intervention/client education for a client taking antipsychotic medications?
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