Psychiatric Disorders & Trauma
Feeling PTSD trauma through nightmares, intrusive thoughts or flashbacks as though it is happening right now is known as this hallmark symptom cluster.
What is Re‑experiencing?
Exclusively breastfeeding is recommended for this many months of life.
What is 6 months?
In GTPAL, the “P” stands for the number of births occurring after this gestational age.
What is 20–36 weeks (preterm)?
Advocacy involves protecting the client’s rights and ensuring their voice is represented in this process.
What is Shared decision‑making?
A client showing signs of financial exploitation may require involvement of this protective service.
What is Adult Protective Services?
This SSRI is FDA‑approved for PTSD treatment.
What is Sertraline?
The MMR vaccine is contraindicated in clients with this type of immune status.
What is Immunocompromised?
This is the normal baseline fetal heart rate range for a healthy term fetus.
What is 110 to 160 beats per minute?
A nurse acting as an advocate may intervene when care decisions conflict with this client-centered principle.
What is Autonomy?
Inconsistent injury explanations are a red flag for this type of assessment.
What is Abuse assessment?
The first priority in trauma‑informed care is establishing this essential feeling for the client.
What is Safety?
The M‑CHAT screening tool is typically used at this age range.
What is 18–24 months?
Regular contractions that cause cervical change indicate this type of labor.
What is True labor?
These five principles—Right Task, Right Circumstance, Right Person, Right Direction/Communication, and Right Supervision/Evaluation—guide nurses in safely assigning duties while maintaining accountability.
What are the Five Rights of Delegation?
Nurses are considered this type of reporter for suspected child abuse.
What is Mandated reporter?
After a suicide attempt, the nurse’s first action is to ensure this aspect of care.
What is Physical safety?
A toddler who stops crying shortly after the parent leaves is demonstrating this stage of separation anxiety.
What is Despair?
These abrupt drops in fetal heart rate, often shaped like a “V,” are typically caused by umbilical cord compression and may occur with or without contractions.
What are variable decelerations?
An Unlicensed Assistive Person (UAP) demonstrating understanding of delegation would report abnormal findings to this team member.
What is the RN?
The priority action for suspected elder abuse is ensuring this aspect of the client’s condition.
What is Safety?
A client stating “I want to die” requires this immediate nursing intervention.
What is Stay with the client and initiate suicide precautions?
Risk‑taking behaviors increase during adolescence due to ongoing development of this brain region.
What is Prefrontal cortex?
These fetal heart rate decreases begin after the peak of a contraction and are most commonly associated with uteroplacental insufficiency.
What are late decelerations?
The first action a nurse should take when noticing repeated discrepancies in a coworker’s controlled‑substance documentation and suspecting possible diversion.
What is report the concern to the charge nurse or supervisor?
Housing instability and food insecurity are examples of these external factors affecting health.
What are social determinants of health?