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How many minutes (in intervals) is the standard monitoring for all mental health patients?
every 15 minutes
Type of Bipolar Disorder wherein patient experienced everything: all types of depression and mania
Bipolar Type 1
Normal lithium level
0.4 - 1.2
Stage in AD wherein the highlight is ‒ A positron emission tomography (PET) scan can be used to detect these changes
Stage 1
Term used for milder form of mania
Hypomania
Give one example of a benzodiazepine
Your -lams & -pams
Type of Bipolar Disorder wherein patient experienced everything except full blown mania?
Normal Valproic Acid Level
50 - 120
Stage in AD wherein the highlight is confabulation
Stage 4
What speech pattern is this?
"I'm going to bed, feeling red, in my head, I feel dead!"
The nurse notes that a client with paranoid schizophrenia and receiving an antipsychotic medication complains of muscle rigidity with accompanying flu-like symptoms. What is this patient experiencing?
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
1st medication of choice for Bipolar patients
Lithium
What can happen to your patient if he/she takes food rich in Tyramine + Antidepressant (MAOI)?
Hypertensive Crisis
Stage in AD wherein the highlight is: there's interference with occupational duties and having difficulty remembering basic directions while driving.
Stage 3
Preferred diet for Bipolar and currently manic patients
high-calorie snacks and drinks/finger foods
Patient is taking Clozaril and started having flu like symptoms. What is your patient manifesting?
Agranulocytosis
If Lithium doesn't work or is too much to the patient, what is the drug classification that can be offered to the patient as a 2nd choice for mood stabilization
anticonvulsants
A syndrome that you need to watch out for if your patient was prescribes with 2 antidepressant medications
Serotonin Syndrome
Stage in AD wherein the highlight is: Symptoms seem to worsen in the late afternoon and evening—a phenomenon termed sundowning
Stage 6
Most common side effect of ECT
confusion or short term memory loss
What is agranulocytosis?
Low WBC count
Give those 3 bipolar medications where you need to have an order for blood level monitoring
Lithium, Valproic Acid, Carbamazepine
A syndrome that you need to watch out for if your patient takes Lamotrigine
Stevens Johnson Syndrome
Stage in AD wherein the highlight is: individual begins to lose things or forget names of people but he/she is still able to work or live independently
stage 2
Priority nursing intervention for patients going through delirium?
Determine and correct the underlying cause.