This FH Chief Nursing Officer supports clinical staff through Nurse Leader Rounds, Town Hall Meetings, recognition events, and advocating for competitive pay for nurses and CNAs.
Who is Jamie White?
Affecting approximately 1% of the adult population and typically presenting between the late teens and early thirties, characterized by altered cognition, perception, and reality testing.
What is Schizophrenia?
A psychotic disorder characterized by having one or more non-bizarre (situations that are not real but also not impossible) fixed false beliefs that persist for at least a month and cannot be explained by any other condition.
What is a Delusional Disorder?
These first-generation antipsychotics work primarily by reducing the activity of dopamine and targeting the positive symptoms of schizophrenia. (List two).
What are Haloperidol (Haldol), Perphenazine (Trilafon), Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), Fluphenazine (Prolixin), and Trifluoperazine (Stelazine)?
The first Winter Olympic Games were held in this "roaring" decade.
What is the 1920's? (1924 in Chamonix, France)
A few of the learning opportunities provided by Frederick Health (list two).
What are Grand Rounds, 4000+ CBLs in NetLearning, the Annual Skills Marathon, Charge Nurse Academy, CEC classes (infusion therapy, preceptor training), Lean Yellow Belt training, and Journal Club?
Major depressive, manic, or mixed episode, concurrent with symptoms that meet the criteria for schizophrenia.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
A type of delusion where a person believes there is something wrong with their body; a fundamental disturbance in body image.
What is a Somatic Delusion?
This second-generation antipsychotic can cause severe neutropenia and requires routine monitoring of the patient's Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC).
What is Clozapine (Clozaril)?
Celebrated as "The Miracle on Ice," the men's U.S. Olympic Hockey Team upset this four-time defending champion 4-3 in the 1980 Lake Placid games.
What is The Soviet Union?
Frederick Health initiatives to support specialty certification and degree advancement (name two).
What are tuition reimbursement, Success Pays, flexible scheduling, the College Fair, and tuition discounts with local universities?
This abnormal speech pattern presents as urgent or intense, with the speaker resisting comments from others.
What is Pressured Speech?
A pronounced increase or decrease in the rate and amount of movement. Can be treated with benzodiazepines in combination with antipsychotics. ECT has also been proven effective.
What is Catatonia?
A rare but life-threatening reaction to antipsychotics, this syndrome is characterized by severe muscle rigidity, hyperpyrexia (temp over 103 degrees), hypertension, tachycardia, delirium, and coma.
What is Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome?
This Caribbean nation's bobsled team debuted at the 1988 games in Calgary, inspiring the film "Cool Runnings."
What is Jamaica?
Some of the measures to support workplace safety for clinical staff (list two).
What are nursing trackers with panic buttons, weapons screening checkpoints at the entrances, Staying Safe class, Workplace Violence Committee, and unit rounding by security officers?
This abnormal speech pattern is characterized by unnecessary and often tedious details in conversation, but the speaker eventually reaches their point, unlike Flight of Ideas and Tangentiality.
What is Circumstantiality?
This alteration in perception consists of persistent or recurrent feelings of being detached from your body, feelings, and/or environment.
What is Depersonalization/Derealization?
Second-generation antipsychotics like Risperidone, Olanzapine, Quetiapine, and Clozapine block (bind to) receptors for these two neurotransmitters.
What are dopamine and serotonin?
Representing this country at the 1984 Sarajevo games, Torvile and Dean won gold in ice dancing with their now-legendary "Bolero" routine.
What is Great Britain?
Resources to support nurses' well-being, stress, and self-care at Frederick Heath.
What are the Zen Den, Code Lavender, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), SHARE package orders, Burn Along Program, and staff access to Pastoral Care?
A cognitive symptom characterized by the impaired ability to think abstractly, resulting in interpreting or perceiving things in a literal manner. Difficulty responding to concepts like love or humor.
What is Concrete Thinking?
Also known as "Walking Corpse Syndrome," a rare condition marked by the false belief that you or your body parts are dead, dying, or don't exist.
What is Cotard's Delusion / Cotard's Syndrome?
Observed more often in first-generation antipsychotics and Clozapine, anticholinergic medications can include these side effects. (List three).
What are dry mouth, constipation, urinary retention, dry eyes, blurred vision, flushed skin, tachycardia, drowsiness, confusion, and hyperthermia?
Just 442 days from now, the 2026 Winter Olympic Games will be cohosted by these two Italian cities (name one).
What are Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo?