Unit 1
Name the 5 Ethical Principals.
Beneficence, Autonomy, Fidelity, Justice, Nonmaleficence & Veracity
Name 2 potentiating risk factors for suicide.
Unemployment or recent financial difficulties
Divorce, widowed or separated
Social Isolation
Previous suicide attempts
Chronic mental illness
Chronic debilitating physical illness
Prior traumatic life events or abuse
This disorder is characterized by manic and depressive episodes.
What is Bipolar Disorder
__________ is a drug that can be administered as a deterrent to drinking to individuals who abuse alcohol.
Disulfiram (Antabuse)
What are 3 nursing interventions used with an angry and aggressive patient?
1) Remain calm
2) Set verbal and behavioral limits
3) Avoid touching them
4) Help pt identify alternative ways to express anger
5) Role-model appropriate ways of expressing anger
Who can be involuntarily committed?
Court ordered/Dr ordered
Mentally ill in need of treatment
Gravely disabled patient
Emergency commitments
Characteristic symptoms include reexperiencing the traumatic event, a sustained high level of anxiety or arousal, or a general numbing of responsiveness and intrusive recollections or nightmares of the event.
What is PTSD
True or False:
Borderline Personality Disorder is characterized by frantic efforts to avoid abandonment, recurrent suicidal behavior, splitting and inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger
True
What are the 2 most common side effects of ECT?
Temporary memory loss
Confusion
A sudden event in one’s life that disturbs homeostasis, during which usual coping mechanisms cannot resolve the problem.
What is a crisis
A patient has the right to refuse treatment if...…?
They are competent and there is no immediate threat to self or others.
What are 4 levels of anxiety and in which is learning enhanced?
Mild, moderate, severe and panic
Mild
What personality disorder is characterized primarily by a profound defect in the ability to form personal relationships. People with this condition are often seen by others as eccentric, isolated, or lonely.
Schizoid Personality Disorder
These are sweeping conclusions made on the basis of one incident—an “all-or-nothing” kind of thinking.
Overgeneralizations
What are the signs and symptoms of Flight or Fight?
Tachycardia, increased blood pressure, rapid respirations, diaphoresis, chest pains, muscle tension, upset stomach, decreased gastric motility, increased secretions & dilated pupils.
List 2 Depression risk factors.
lower socioeconomic
marital stress
Female
Over 65
True or False:
Dissociative disorders are defined by a disturbance of or alteration in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, and identity
True
This type of operant conditioning increases the probability that a behavior will recur by removal of an undesirable reinforcing stimulus.
Negative reinforcement
This disorder is characterized by symptoms that cannot be medically explained.
Somatic Disorder
Caregiver verbal and nonverbal techniques that focus on the care receiver’s needs and advance the promotion of healing and change. Encourages exploration of feelings and fosters understanding of behavioral motivation. It is nonjudgmental, discourages defensiveness, and promotes trust.
What is Therapeutic communication
A potentially fatal syndrome of SSRIs with a rapid onset that is characterized by diarrhea, restlessness, agitation, hyperreflexia and fluctuations in vital signs
Serotonin Syndrome
List 3 positive manifestations of Schizophrenia
Delusions
Hallucinations
Disorganized thinking
Abnormal Motor Behavior
What are the indications of ECT?
Mania
Major Depression
Schizophrenia
Compensation, Denial and Displacement are examples of what?
Defense Mechanisms