Ethical and Legal Considerations
This federal law protects the privacy of patient health information.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
This neurotransmitter is primarily involved in mood regulation and is targeted by many antidepressants.
What is serotonin?
This FDA warning highlights the increased risk of suicidal thoughts in adolescents taking SSRIs.
What is the black box warning?
This type of behavior is characterized by openly expressing feelings and needs while respecting others, often used to reduce aggression.
What is assertive behavior?
This approach involves immediate action to stabilize a client exhibiting aggressive behavior and ensure safety for all involved.
What is crisis intervention?
This legal concept ensures that patients understand and agree to treatment voluntarily.
What is informed consent?
This inhibitory neurotransmitter helps regulate anxiety and is the target of benzodiazepine medications.
What is GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)?
This serious side effect of antipsychotic medications involves involuntary, repetitive movements and may be irreversible.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
This nursing diagnosis may apply to clients who exhibit aggressive behavior and have difficulty managing their emotions.
What is ineffective coping?
This factor, which influences how an individual responds to a crisis, includes their previous experiences, education, and self-awareness.
What are coping mechanisms?
This legal term describes the unlawful confinement of a patient without justification or due process.
What is false imprisonment?
This neurotransmitter is involved in regulating mood, attention, and arousal and is often implicated in disorders like ADHD.
What is dopamine?
This mood stabilizer, commonly used in bipolar disorder, requires regular blood level monitoring due to its narrow therapeutic index and risk of toxicity.
What is lithium?
This behavior pattern is characterized by a lack of self-advocacy, often leading individuals to suppress their feelings and needs to avoid conflict.
What is passive behavior?
This assessment tool is commonly used to evaluate the severity of suicidal ideation and risk in individuals experiencing a crisis.
What is the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale?
A failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonably prudent nurse would have exercised in a similar situation, resulting in harm to the patient.
What is negligence?
This part of the brain is known as the "emotional brain" and is involved in regulating emotions and memory.
What is the limbic system?
Consuming aged cheese or red wine while taking this class of antidepressants can lead to a hypertensive crisis.
What are monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)?
The primary goal of assertiveness training is to help individuals achieve this, which enhances their self-esteem and interpersonal relationships.
What is effective self-advocacy?
This phase of crisis intervention involves summarizing the interventions provided and determining the need for follow-up therapy or additional support.
What is the evaluation phase?
This legal concept allows for involuntary hospitalization when a person poses a danger to themselves or others.
What is civil commitment?
This structure in the brain is responsible for integrating sensory information and is crucial for attention and concentration.
What is the thalamus?
These formulations of antipsychotics are used to improve adherence in patients with schizophrenia who struggle with daily medication routines.
What are long-acting injectables (LAIs)?
Occurs when a specific behavior is reinforced
What is operant conditioning?
This type of crisis is triggered by an unexpected external stressor, such as a natural disaster or violent crime, over which the individual has little or no control.
What is a traumatic stress crisis?