Anxiety
An internal disturbance that results from a stressful event or a perceived threat to self.
What is a crisis?
This phase of schizophrenia consists of delusions, paranoia, hallucinations, and disorganized speech and behavior.
What is the acute phase?
What are serotonin and and norepinephrine?
An alteration in mood that is expressed by feelings of elation, inflated self-esteem, grandiosity, hyperactivity, agitation, and accelerated thinking and speaking.
What is mania?
Pseudoparkinsonism is a possible side effect of this group of medications?
What are first generation/typical antipsychotics?
This level of anxiety involves dread, terror, distorted perceptions, loss of rational thought, inability to communicate or function effectively and chest pain?
Often times the most dangerous kind of hallucination for safety reasons that must be assessed.
What are command hallucinations?
What are tricyclic antidepressants?
Something the nurse notices about the patient (like flat or angry) vs. what the patient reports (feeling very sad).
What is affect vs. mood?
Severe EPS, hyperpyrexia and autonomic dysfunction are signs of this adverse effect of antipsychotics.
What is neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
This disorder can consist of recurrent recollections, distressing dreams, relieving the traumatic event, increased arousal, panic, and impaired social functioning.
What is PTSD?
A negative symptom and is the inability to experience pleasure.
What is anhedonia?
A patient on MAOIs must avoid food containing this.
What is tyramine?
The gold standard mood stabilizer medication.
What is lithium?
A dangerous side effect of typical antipsychotics that consists of abnormal, repetitive, involuntary, purposeless skeletal muscle movements of mouth, face and torso.
This medication should be used short term and be tapered off because tolerance develops and CNS depression can occur with alcohol.
What are benzodiazepines?
A method of changing thoughts, behaviors and emotions with psycho-educational approach to reduce hallucinations, delusions in patinets.
This is an important adverse effect to assess for with a patient on SSRIs.
What is serotonin syndrome?
GI upset, coarse hand tremor, confusion, hyper-irritability of muscles, EEG changes, sedation, incoordination are all early signs of this.
What is lithium toxicity?
The major side effect of concern in Clozapine, a second generation antipsychotic.
This anxiolytic has less potential for dependence and tolerance, but the therapeutic benefits can take 3-6 weeks. Some side effects include nausea, lightheadedness and agitation.
What is BuSpar (Buspirone)?
A dangerous side effect of typical antipsychotics which includes abnormal postures caused by spasms of major muscle groups of neck, back, and eyes.
What is EPS?
This is the most effective treatment for severe psychotic mood disorders and for suicidal patients-psychotic depression and involves an induction of a seizure under controlled conditions.
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
These anticonvulsant mood-stabilizing drugs work in bipolar disorder by enhancing effects of inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA.
What are anticonvulsants?
What is diphenhydramine (Benadryl) or benzotropine?