Medications
Drug class of choice for treatment of depression
What are SSRI's?
coping abilities become overwhelmed and emotional control is lost
What is anxiety state?
What is monitor for escalating behaviors? (safety of patient and others)
Overly flamboyant, attention seeking, elevated drama
What is histrionic personality disorder?
characteristics of sudden travel with inability to recall the past
what is dissociative fugue?
medication used in Alzheimer's that cause alteration in blood pressure
What is donepezil?
physical expression of anxiety
what is somatization?
people who more frequently experience postpartum depression (3 answers)
who are women who:
had a difficult delivery
had complicated pregnancies
are not emotionally prepared for motherhood
fear of abandonment, splitting, gambling, and other risky behaviors
What is borderline personality disorder?
Naturally occurring salt that is used in treatment of bipolar disorder
What is lithium?
Dryness of mouth, blurred vision, excessive sweating, urinary retention
nonpharmacologic method used to treat OCD
what is desensitization?
neurotransmitter that has shown to be imbalanced in suicide victims
what is serotonin?
disregard for others, manipulative, blames others
what is antisocial personality disorder?
disorder in which person has severe anxiety and feels they are a detached observer of their lives
What is Depersonalization?
Drug used for patients who are recovering from alcoholism
What is Disulfiram?
Brief period of intense fear or discomfort, lasting from 1-15 minutes
What is a panic attack?
social factors that impact the incidence of suicide (4 answers)
What are social isolation, veterans of combat, poverty, and legal status of gun ownership?
phase of schizophrenia in which family feels person is "slipping away", person may be docile, and may start having hallucinations/delusions
What is the prepsychotic phase of schizophrenia?
Episodes of depression alternate with episodes of mania, delusions are common during mania
what is Bipolar I disorder?
Fatal side effect of any antipsychotic medication, characterized by high body temperature
What is Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome?
type of antidepressant medication that has many unwanted side effects and food interactions such as tyramine
nursing priority when giving medications to a pt on suicide precautions
What is ensuring the pt swallows all medications
exposure to this is a risk factor for childhood schizophrenia
What is exposure to influenza virus during pregnancy?
intervention that can be helpful in dissociative disorder to prevent self-destructive behaviors
What is a signed contract?