Mood Disorders
This mood disorder involves depressed mood, anhedonia, and functional impairment for at least 2 weeks
What is MDD
This medication is used to treat nightmares associated with PTSD.
What is prazosin?
These are false sensory perceptions without external stimuli.
What are hallucinations?
This personality disorder is associated with unstable relationships, identity disturbance, and impulsivity?
What is borderline personality disorder?
These are the 3 reasons that individuals can be involuntarily hospitalized.
What are: danger to self, danger to others, not caring for self due to decompensation of mental illness?
A key safety priority for patients beginning antidepressants, especially SSRIs and SNRIs.
What is assessing for suicide risk?
Before providing patient education with a patient with active anxiety, this intervention is necessary.
What is reduce current levels of anxiety?
This is a serious adverse effect of antipsychotics characterized by rigidity, fever, and autonomic instability.
What is Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS)?
This is the hallmark sign of narcissistic personality disorder?
What is grandiosity / need for admiration?
This ethical principle supports patients' rights to make their own decisions, even if the nurse disagrees with them.
What is autonomy?
What are SSRIs and SNRIs
During a panic attack, the nurse intervenes by ______.
What is: stay with patient, reassure safety, and move potentially harmful items.
This therapeutic technique assesses the patient's ability to determine reality from psychosis.
What is reality testing?
This term describes a tactic, sometimes used by individuals with personality disorders, that brings conflict between 2+ staff persons.
What is staff splitting?
Before administering a court ordered (forced medications), the nurse should do these two tasks.
What are: (1) confirming the order / presence of a court order, (2) coordinate staff support (e.g. call a code)
Lithium, considered first line for bipolar disorder, has a narrow therapeutic window. ______ is the therapeutic window.
What is 0.5/0.6-1.2 (toxic above 1.5)
Hypervigilance, irritability, mood changes, difficulty sleeping, and risky behavior are associated with this condition.
What is PTSD?
What are negative symptoms of psychosis?
This is the 'best practice' approach to management of self-harm.
What is matter-of-fact and non-judgmental?
A patient that is immediate danger to themself requires IM emergency medication. This situation waives this right.
What is the right to informed consent?
If a hospitalized patient has this plan for attempting suicide, the patient may require 1:1 monitoring.
What is suicide by hanging / ligature.
This class of anxiolytic drugs has a risk of respiratory depression, especially when taken with other CNS depressants.
What are benzodiazepines?
What are: (1) metabolic syndrome; (2) EPS?
A patient diagnosed with Borderline personality disorder with a history of 6 suicide attempts reports SI. This is the nurses' response.
What is assess suicide including plan, access, and intent?
Involuntarily hospitalized patients retain these 5 basic rights.
What are: right to refuse treatment, right to access treatment, right to least restrictive means, right to informed consent, and right to confidentiality?