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What's the Diagnoses
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Take Your Meds
It's Only a Theory
TNI's
100
Anhedonia, poor hygience, lack social skills
What are negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
100
False ideas or beliefs that the patient accepts as real.
What are delusions?
100
Baseline WBC's and weekly lab work is required to continue this medication
What is Clozaril (clozapine)?
100
Freud theorized these three individually functioning but closely interrelated components make up ones personality.
What are the id, ego and superego?
100
The purpose is to assist the client to change reactions that are maladaptive or undesirable.
What is Behavioral Therapy?
200
Hallucinations, delusions, paranoia
What are positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
200
It invloves a introductory, working and termination phase.
What is a therapeutic relationship?
200
A diet containing aged cheese, corned beef, soy sauce and beer is contraindicated while on this class of medication.
What are MAO inhibiters?
200
These operate at an unconscious level and alleviate anxiety by denying, misinterpreting, or distorting reality.
What are defense mechanisms?
200
An environment that is structured and maintained as an ideal, dynamic setting.
What is therapeutic milieu?
300
Disturbance of thought, plus disturbed mood
What is schizoaffective disorder?
300
A professional association organized to advance the science and education of psychiatric-mental health nursing.
What is APNA (American Psychiatric Nurses Association)?
300
Symptoms including dry mouth, blurred vision, constipation or urinary retention, that can be side effects of many antipsychotic agents.
What is EPS (extrapyramidal symptoms)?
300
This theorist saw personality as developing throughout the lifespan rather than stopping at adolecence.
Who is Erikson?
300
A dynamic and continuing activity that includes nurse-client interaction and the problem-solving process.
What is the nursing process?
400
A pattern of socially irresponsible, exploitative, and guiltless behavior that reflects a disregard for the rights of others.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
400
A teacher, nurse, humanitarian, and social reformer for the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea L Dix?
400
A medication delivery that is used to increase adherence to recommended treatment, they are administered IM.
What are decanoates?
400
Known as the 'mother of psychiatric nursing' she was one of the first to analyze nursing action using an interpersonal theoretical model.
Who is Hidegard Peplau?
400
Care planning and treatment decisions that are based on research or expert opinion.
What is evidence-based practice?
500
Alterations in this neurotransmitter is most closely associated with depression
What is Serotonin?
500
The clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation.
What is insight?
500
Can be prescribed for short term use in alcohol withdrawal.
What is Ativan (lorazepam)?
500
Nurse theorist who created the self-care deficit theory that describes how the patients needs will be met by the nurse, the patient or both.
Who is Dorothea Orem?
500
Commuication of professional judgments to patients, members of other disciplines, and to the public.
What are nursing diagnoses?