Personality d/o
This is the most appropriate nursing intervention to use with a client with paranoid personality disorder when they become aggressive.
What is a clear, calm approach and a confident stance.
This response is the most appropriate for the patient with a panic attack.
What is an empathetic response, providing encouragement that the panic attacks only last a short time?
Education about biopsychosocial consequences of alcohol abuse should occur at this point in the patient's hospitalization.
What is later in the hospital course?
This is the minimum blood level where a nurse could expect intoxication to occur?
What is 100 mg/dL?
At this stage, the patient is no longer to ambulate and does not recognize family members.
What is Stage 7?
This approach is best to avoid staff manipulation with a client with borderline personality disorder.
Maintain consistency of care and open communication.
Recognition of this should be done if the obsessive-compulsive disorder spends 45 minutes organizing a sock drawer.
What are anxiety-provoking triggers?
This important follow-up activity should be discussed with the patient with alcohol abuse upon discharge.
What is attendance of AA meetings immediately?
True or false: Some state boards of nursing administer the treatment programs themselves, while others refer the nurse to other resources.
True.
This medication delays the destruction of acetylcholine, a chemical necessary for memory processes.
What is Aricept?
This is the difference between schizoid and avoidant personality disorders.
Patients with avoidant personality disorder desire intimacy but fear it, and client diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder prefer to be alone.
Benzodiazepines can be stopped abruptly, true or false.
False. Seizures can result.
Relying on a sponsor holds the patient accountable for recovery and controls cravings, true or false?
False.
True or false: Most states provide a hotline that an impaired nurse may call or phone numbers of peer assistance.
True.
This nursing intervention would be indicated in a patient with a major neurocognitive disorder, when exhibiting behavioral problems such as screaming and flailing.
What is medicate with a prn antianxiety medication?
This nursing diagnosis would be most appropriate for a patient schizoid personality disorder.
What is Social isolation r/t inability to relate to others.
These types of activities may reduce symptoms of anxiety and should be encouraged for the patient diagnosed with anxiety.
What is yoga or meditation?
Complications associated with alcohol withdrawal syndrome may progress to alcohol withdrawal delirium in which day following cessation of prolonged alcohol use?
What is the second or third day?
These two medications are given for the client with a history of opiate withdrawal.
What is methadone and clonidine?
The nurse would expect an older patient to receive which medication that aides with a sad affect and social isolation?
What is Zoloft?
This self-harm behavior is expected in patients with borderline personality disorder.
What are suicidal gestures
Asking the patient with alcohol withdrawal to hold out their hands assesses for this physical finding?
What are tremors?
What is hypertension (180/100)?