Define
Process whereby a person unconsciously and inappropriately displaces (transfers) patterns of behaviors and emotional reactions toward another person
What is Transference?
the body's potentially life-threatening response when severely malnourished patients transition from starvation to a fed state during initial nutrition therapy.
What is refeeding syndrome?
Combining MAOIs with SSRIs, SNRIs, TCAs, meperidine, tramadol, dextromethorphan, or St. John’s wort can lead to this life‑threatening condition.
What is serotonin syndrome?
This type of communication Gives the person time to collect thoughts or think through a point.
What is silence?
An older adult develops sudden confusion, fluctuating attention, and disorientation after starting a new medication and developing a urinary tract infection.
What is delirium?
refers to the tendency of the nurse to displace onto the patient feelings related to people in his or her past.
What is countertransference?
Terror of gaining weight
Preoccupation with thoughts of food
View of self as fat even when emaciated,
Peculiar handling of food: Cutting food into small bits & Pushing pieces of food around plate
Possible development of rigorous exercise regimen
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
should avoid foods such as aged cheeses, cured meats, fermented products, and draft beer when taking this medication
What is MAOIs?
Repeats the main idea expressed. Gives the patient an idea of what has been communicated. If the message has been misunderstood, the patient can clarify it.
What is restating?
A patient is found unresponsive with shallow respirations, constricted pupils, and cool, clammy skin after taking prescription pain medication
What is signs and symptoms of an opioid overdose?
chemical messenger between neurons through which one neuron triggers another.
What is neurotransmitters?
A patient repeatedly seeks medical testing, fears serious disease despite normal results, and remains preoccupied with health concerns for months.
What is illness anxiety disorder?
gold standard treatment for bipolar disorder
What is lithium?
Assumes the nurse knows best and the patient cannot think for self. Inhibits problem solving and fosters dependency.
What is Giving premature advice?
A family member begins experiencing sadness, anger, and emotional withdrawal while caring for a loved one with a terminal diagnosis—even though the loss has not yet occurred.
What is anticipatory grief?
This legal and ethical obligation requires behavioral health professionals to take reasonable steps to protect an identifiable person when a client makes a credible threat of serious harm
What is duty to warn or duty to protect?
Common behaviors of this disorder include deceitfulness, impulsivity, repeated unlawful acts, aggression, irresponsibility, and a lack of empathy or remorse.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
This class of medications is prescribed for anxiety, insomnia, seizures, and acute agitation, and works by enhancing the effects of GABA in the brain.
What are benzodiazepines?
Underrates the patient’s feelings and belittles the patient’s concerns.
May cause the patient to stop sharing feelings if the patient thinks he or she will be ridiculed or not taken seriously. example is “Everything will be all right.”
What is falsely reassuring?
This three-phase pattern explains why individuals endure long-term abuse, beginning with escalating tension, followed by a violent incident, and ending with a period where the abusive partner shows their loving side.
What is the cycle of violence?
A 24‑year‑old patient with severe depression tells a clinician they plan to end their life tonight by hanging. Clt has plan, means and access. The nurse or clinician must take action.
What is involuntary admission?
A patient praises one nurse as “the only one who cares” while calling another nurse “completely awful,” often shifting these views rapidly.
This defense mechanism involves viewing people or situations as all good or all bad, with no middle ground, and is often seen in certain personality disorders.
What is splitting?
Due to anticholinergic effects, patients taking this medication commonly experience dry mouth, constipation, urinary retention, blurred vision, and sedation and can be lethal in overdose.
What are tricyclic antidepressants TCAs?
A patient says, “I’m fine,” while avoiding eye contact, crossing their arms, and speaking in a tense tone.
When a patient’s words conflict with body language or tone, this type of message can cause confusion and should prompt the nurse to seek clarification.
What is mixed message?
The characteristics of this person is denial and blame, emotional abuse, Control Through Isolation, Control Through Intimidation
What are Behavioral Characteristics of Intimate Partner Violence or characteristics of violent partner?