Mental Health

Medications

100

Lithium

What medication is commonly used for Bipolar Disorder?

200

SSRIs

What are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors used for depression and anxiety?

300

Anxiolytics

What are diazepenes such as Ativan (lorazepam), or Xanax (alprazolam)?

400

Antiseizure Medications

What is a class of medications often used for ETOH withdrawal, and in bipolar disorder.

500

Atypical Antipsychotic

What is a class of drugs used in Schizophrenia because it treats both negative and positive symptoms? Examples: Risperdol (risperidone); Seroquel (quetiapine); Abilify (aripiprazole).

Depression/SI

100

Suicidal Ideation Nursing Priority

What is placing the patient on suicide precautions (1:1)?

200

Medical Exam

What should every patient with depression (or any other mental health disorder) have to rule out an underlying medical cause for symptoms?

300

Somatic Symptoms

What are physical symptoms generated by depression?

400

TSH Level

What should be labs should be checked in patients being evaluated for major depressive disorder?

(Along with drug/alcohol screen, CBC, Chem, & urinalysis)

500

Direct Questioning

What is the type of questions to ask someone who makes suicidal threat or gesture? Such as "Are you having thoughts of hurting yourself or someone else?" "Do you have a plan for hurting yourself?"

Nursing Care

100

Safety

What is the nurse's number one priority for patients and staff members?

200

Trusting Relationship

What must the nurse work hard to build with every interaction with a mental health patient?

300

Altered Sensory Perception

What is a nursing problem that reflects the schizophrenic's hallucinations?

400

Mental Illness Definition

What is "when responses to stress negatively impact daily functioning"?

500

Mental Health Definition

What is "when behaviors demonstrate a normal range of emotion and do not impact daily functioning"?

Personality Disorders

100

Histrionic Personality Disorder

What is dramatic, hysterical behavioral characteristics?

200

Antisocial Personality Disorder

What is behavior characteristics that disregards right from wrong, uses manipulation, and ignores feelings of others?

300

Dependent Personality Disorder

What is behavior characteristics that appear needy, clingy, and indecisive?

400

Avoidant Personality Disorder

What is behavioral characteristics that include extreme sensitivity to criticism and rejection, extreme social awkwardness, and inadequacy? 

500

Borderline Personality Disorder

What is behavioral characteristics that include intense fear of abandonment and a desire for relationships with others but with inappropriate anger, mood swings, and impulsiveness that pushes others away.

Eating Disorders

100

Bulemia

What is binging and purging?

200

Anorexia

What is drastic reduction in calories?

300

Dentist

Who commonly first notices the signs of bulemia?

400

Behavior modification

What is the treatment of choice for eating disorders?

500

Cardiac problems

What is a severe consequence to the electrolyte imbalances caused by anorexia and/or bulemia?