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100
This medication can help the patient stop drinking alcohol, but should only be used with the patient's knowledge.
What is antabuse?
100
You are in the common room and notice one of the patient’s behavior is starting to escalate. The patient is starting to act bizarre, pacing about the room with incoherent speech.
What is to intervene immediately to maintain patient safety?
100
This is a group of psychotic disorders characterized by disturbances in perception, affect, behavior and communication lasting longer than 6 months (this includes psychotic behavior).
What is schizophrenia?
100
Lack of interest in or concern for things that others find moving or exciting. absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement
What is apathy?
100
The parrot-like repetition, by an individual with loose ego boundaries, of the words spoken by another.
What is echolalia?
200
This anticonvulsant medication is used for long-term treatment of binge-eating disorder with obesity
What is Topamax?
200
This type of program is the treatment of choice for patients because these programs allow patients to maintain control.
What is behavior modification?
200
Families engaging in conflict avoidance and struggling with issues of power and control may contribute to the development of the disease
What is anorexia nervosa?
200
A false sensory perceptions that can affect any of the five senses
What are hallucinations?
200
One of the most marked effects of bulimia is on this part of the body.
What is on the teeth and mouth?
300
Symptoms of tactile hallucinations and reports of hearing disturbing voices would be addressed by antipsychotic medications such as this medication.
What is Haldol?
300
Professional therapists usually are not involved, but group members support and comfort each other.
What are self-help groups?
300
Characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur. Client may be argumentative, hostile, and aggressive.
What is Paranoid schizophrenia?
300
Physical symptoms, including tremor, slurred speech, akathisia, dystonia, anxiety, distress, paranoia, and bradyphrenia, that are primarily associated with improper dosing of or unusual reactions to neuroleptic (anti-psychotic) medications.
What are Extrapyramidal side effects?
300
The closing of state mental hospitals and discharging of mentally ill individuals
What is deinstitutionalization?
400
This medication is indicated for the management of severely ill schizophrenic patients who fail to respond adequately to standard drug treatment for schizophrenia.
What is Clozapine (Clozaril)?
400
A case management team approach that is individually tailored to teach clients basic living skills, help them work with community agencies, and assist clients in developing a social support network.
What is Assertive community treatment (ACT)?
400
This is a condition in which a person experiences a combination of schizophrenia symptoms — such as hallucinations or delusions — and of mood disorder symptoms, such as mania or depression.
What is Schizoaffective disorder?
400
Common belligerence, labile mood, impaired judgment, and loss of motor coordination
What is Substance intoxication?
400
The Community Mental Health Centers Act was passed in this year.
What is 1963?
500
This medication can be habit forming and should be taken only as directed - can make you extremely drowsy - overdose is a life-threatening medical emergency and should be treated right away
What is Librium?
500
Nursing intervention for the client with substance-use disorder is aimed at doing this.
What is provide for patient safety and a supportive environment for the detoxification process?
500
A maladaptive pattern of substance use manifested by recurrent and significant adverse consequences related to the substance use.
What is substance abuse?
500
Symptoms of alcohol withdrawal usually occur within this amount of time after the cessation or reduction in heavy and prolonged alcohol use.
What is 4 to 12 hours?
500
In 1841, this former schoolteacher, started a crusade that resulted in the establishment of a number of hospitals for the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?