Medications
Drug class of medication that reduces anxiety.
What is Anti-anxiety (anxiolytic)?
Disease characterized by thoughts or experiences that seem out of touch with reality, disorganized speech or behavior, and decreased participation in daily activities.
A mental illness characterized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations. May be an aspect of a personality disorder.
What is paranoia?
A disease in which your blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high or too low.
What is diabetes?
How often do you assess for circulation?
What is Q15min?
Benadryl can be used to help what side effect of antipsychotic medications?
What is extrapyramidal side effects?
A disorder characterized by feelings of worry or fear that are strong enough to interfere with one's daily activities...
A symptom characterized by the compulsion to vomit after consuming food.
What is purging?
A disorder in which brain is abnormal, causing seizures and sometimes loss of awareness..
What is epilepsy?
What is a 4-point restraint?
What is a 4 person psychical restraint: 1 person per extremity?
What benzodiazepine is commonly used in am emergency IM?
What is Ativan (Lorazepam)?
A mental health disorder characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life?
What is depression?
A sleep disorder in which you have trouble falling and/or staying asleep.
What is insomnia?
When stomach acid frequently flows back into the tube connecting your mouth and stomach causing heartburn and discomfort.
What is GERD?
What is Q2H?
What are the 3 standard medications typically used in an IM injection here at the BHUCC?
What is Haldol, Ativan, and Benadryl?
Mental illness where repeated thoughts, urges, or mental images that cause anxiety that lead to obsessive rituals.
What is obsessive compulsive disorder?
Antipsychotic induced symptoms that include tremor, slurred speech, akathesia, dystonia, anxiety, distress, paranoia, and bradyphrenia.
Is a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction occurring within seconds or minutes of exposure.
What is anaphylaxis?
What must you do after every denial of rights?
What is the correct way to administer Narcan?
What? - Squeeze vigorously, administering half of the syringe in each nostril.
A disease is which tends to show up in childhood, unlike most other personality disorders (most don't become apparent until adolescence or young adulthood). Symptoms include a disregard for rules and social norms and a lack of remorse for other people.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
Belief that someone is other than who they are, such as a supernatural figure or a celebrity. May also be a belief that they have special abilities, possessions, or powers.
Pinpoint pupils, unconsciousness, respiratory depression, choking sounds or a snore-like gurgling noise, are all signs of...
What is an opioid overdose?
How often do you have to get a renewal order for restraints?