mental health nursing

mental health disorders

100

common and serious diagnoses that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. It causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities to the point that it impairs functioning.

Depression or Major Depressive Disorder

200

anxiety, detachment, and other manifestations about the event for longer than 1 month following a distressing event. Other symptoms include hypervigilance, sleep disturbances, and being easily startled.

PTSD

300

Standard nomenclature of emotional illness published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and used by all healthcare practitioners. It classifies mental illness and presents guidelines and diagnostic criteria for various mental disorders.  

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5).

400

Vague, diffuse apprehension that is associated with feelings of uncertainty and helplessness. Associated with decreased GABA and increased norepinephrine

Anxiety

500

This disorder is associated with loss of contact with reality. Symptoms may include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech patterns, and bizarre or catatonic behaviors.  

Schizophrenia or unspecified psychosis

assessments

100

This is a broad mental health assessment that covers appearance, speech, motor activity, mood, thoughts, perceptions, insight, and judgement

MSE Mental status exam

200

This is the evidence based assessment for determining the severity of withdrawal from alcohol

CIWA

300

This scale is used to assess the severity of opiate withdrawal the patient is experiencing

COWS

400

This assessment is used to determine cognitive functioning. It includes assessment of orientation, registration, attention, calculation, memory, and language. The last question of the assessment asks the patient to copy a drawing of shapes

mmse mini-mental status exam

500

 12-item scale to assess severity of dyskinesias (specifically, orofacial movements and extremity and truncal movements) in patients taking neuroleptic medications.

AIMS 

neurotranmitters

100

This "fight or flight" neurotransmitter is increased in those suffering from a panic state or a manic phase.

norepinephrine (or noradrenaline)

200

This inhibitory neurotransmitter is sometimes referred to as the "off switch" and is decreased in people with anxiety.

GABA

300

This feel-good neurotransmitter activates the reward center of the brain and is associated with addiction. It is increased in people with schizophrenia and mania. 

Dopamine

400

This neurotransmitter is decreased in depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anorexia nervosa.

Serotonin

500

This is the primary neurotransmitter of the parasympathetic (rest and digest) nervous system. It is found to be drastically decreased in Alzheimers patients

Acetylcholine

vocab

100

The behavioral expression of emotion; may be appropriate (congruent with the situation), inappropriate (incongruent with the situation), constricted or blunted (diminished range and intensity), or flat (absence of emotional expression).

affect

200

False sensory perceptions not associated with real external stimuli

hallucinations

300

______ therapy  consists of a scientific structuring of the environment in order to effect behavioral changes and to improve the individual’s psychological health and functioning. This type of therapy falls under the RN's scope of practice.

Milieu

400

An electrical impulse through the neuron stimulates the release of these into the synaptic cleft, which in turn determines whether or not another electrical impulse is generated.

neurotransmitters

500

Fixed, false belief not explained by culture. Belief remains despite factual or logical contradiction.

Delusion

SATA meds

100

Select all medications or classes used in the treatment of depression.

a) SSRI

b) anticonvulsants

c) SNRI

d)Benzodiazapines

e) Tricyclics

A, C, E

200

Which medications or classes are used for alcohol withdrawal

A) Librium

B) Anticonvulsants

C) Opiates

D) Bezodiazapines

E) Diuretics

A, B, D

300

These medications are used for relapse prevention for patients in recovery from alcohol dependence

a) Suboxone

b) Naltrexone (Vivitrol)

c) Naloxone (Narcan)

d) Disulfuram (Antabuse)

e) Librium

B, D

400

These drugs are used as mood stabilizers

a) Carbomazopine (Tegretol)

b) Lithium (Priadil, Lithobid)

c) Fluoxatine (Prozac)

d) Limotrogine (Lamictal)

e) Valproic Acid (Depakote)

A, B, D, E

500

These are typical or 1st generation antipsychotics

a) Quetiapine (Seroquel)

b) Risperidone (Risperdal)

c) Chlorpromazine (Thorazine)

d) Haloperidol  (Haldol)

e) Aripiprazole (Abilify)

C, D

all the others are atypical antipsychotics