Medications
Disorders
Definitions
Ethic Considerations
Miscellaneous
100
A group of compounds that includes opium, opium derivatives, and synthetic substitutes
What is opioids
100
A pattern of socially irresponsible, exploitative, and guiltless behavior, evident in the tendency to fail to conform to the law, develop stable relationships, or sustain consistent employment.
What is antisocial personality disorder
100
To use wrongfully or in a harmful way. Improper treatment or conduct that may result in injury.
What is abuse.
100
The term used with ethical prinicples that refer to concepts within the scope of medicine, nursing and allied health
What is bioethics
100
A diagrammatic teaching and learning strategy that allows students and faculty to visualize interrelationships between medical diagnoses, nursing diagnoses, assessment data, and treatments.
What is concept mapping
200
This medication is used for the treatment of agitation, aggression, hallucinations and thought disturbances.
What is Haldol
200
This disorder involves conscious, intentional feigning of physical or psychological symptoms.
What is factitious disorder
200
Harsh physical or verbal actions intended (either consciously or unconsciously) to harm or injure another.
What is aggression.
200
An ethical principle that refers to one's duty to benefit or promote the good of others
What is beneficence
200
The concept of people identifying with each other because of a shared heritage
What is ethnicity
300
There is a significant risk of agranulocytosis with this medication. Patient will need a weekly blood draw to check their WBC's.
What is Clozaril
300
Characterized by chronic (at least 6 months), unrealistic, and excessive anxiety and worry
What is general anxiety disorder
300
A major self-help organization for the treatment of alcoholism.
What is Alcoholic Anonymous.
300
The ethical philosophy that states one should treat others as moral equals
What is Christian ethics
300
A leadership type in which the leader lets group members do as they please
What is laissez-faire
400
This medication is often prescribed to patients starting on Lithium, to help decrease agitation, aggression, and thought disturbances, until the Lithium takes affect.
What is Zyprexa
400
Depression that occurs during the postpartum period
What is postpartum depression
400
Excessive, insatiable appetite
What is bulimia
400
The failure of one rendering professional services to exercise that degree of skill and learning commonly applied under all the circumstances in the community by the average prudent reputable member of the profession with the result of injury, loss, or damage to the patient.
What is malpractice
400
A chemical that is stored in the axon terminals of the presynaptic neuron
What is neurotransmitter
500
This medication is given as a deterrent to drinking to individuals who abuse alcohol
What is Antabuse
500
This disorder is characterized by impairment in social interaction skills and interpersonal communication
What is autism spectrum disorder
500
A sudden unexpected travel away from home or customary work locale with the assumption of a new identity and an inability to recall one's previous identity
What is fugue
500
A branch of philosophy that addresses methods for determining the rightness or wrongness of one's actions
What is ethics
500
A specialized type of group therapy that employs a dramatic approach in which patients become "actors" in life situation scenarios
What is psychodrama