Common Side Effects of Meds
What is a major side effects of antipsychotics?
Name three!
What is EPS symptoms such as parkinson like symptoms, akathisia, dystonia such as spasm of the tongue neck, face and back.
What disorder has symptoms of flight of ideas, grandiosity and impulsivity?
Bipolar Disorder Type 1
The nurse is developing a plan of care for a patient who has conversion disorder. What following actions should the nurse include?
Discuss alternative coping strategies with the patient.
What type of medication class needs constant lab work for therapeutic level?
Anti-Seizure or Mood Stabilizer Medication.
When a patient has a white blood cell count of 2,000 what medication class is responsible for this?
Antipsychotics
What are major side effects of Tricyclic Antidepressant Drugs?
Name four!
What is blurred vision, dry mouth, urinary retention, and constipation
What disorder has symptoms of frequently seeking new doctors, obsessing, and researching symptoms online.
When caring for a patient who has a personality disorder, what should the nurse keep in mind when caring for this patient?
Limit setting is appropriate to help prevent patient manipulation.
What is Metabolic Syndrome and with what class causes this?
Metabolic Syndrome is a new onset of diabetes, dyslipidemia, and weight gain with the following characteristics:
What two medication classes can cause arrythmias?
Tricyclic Antidepressants and Antipsychotics
What are major side effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors?
Name four!
What is Serotonin Syndrome, Sexual dysfunction, Stomach Issues (Nausea, vomiting), and Weight gain.
What disorder allows a person to involuntary disconnect from the world to avoid pain or emotion?
When a schizophrenic patient is having command hallucinations that say "Kill my doctor." What nursing intervention should the nurse do first?
Put the patient on a one to one is the first action that the nurse should take.
What test does the nurse need to do if they see the patient has lip smacking?
What is the name of the emergency situation that can happen to a patient when they become stiff, have a fever, and a altered mental status.
What is Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome!
What are major side effects of selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors?
Name five!
weight loss, gi effects (nause, vomiting), suicidal ideation in children, Hepatotoxicity, and CNS effects.
What disorder causes symptoms that occur after a stressful event that causes physical problems that are unexplained?
What is conversion disorder
The nurse is caring for a patient who has bipolar disorder. What is the priority nursing action?
Monitor the patient for escalating behavior.
What are the symptoms that first generation antipsychotics treat?
Name three!
What is: Positive symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, and severe agitation.
What four medication classes should not be given together, because they can cause serotonin syndrome?
What is Maoi's, SNRi's, SSRI, and also complimentary medication: St. John's Wort.
What are major side effects of MAOI's
Name four!
(aged cheese, sour cream, fermented meats, yogurt, sauerkraut.)
What disorder is present when the patient deliberately causes injury to another for attention?
What Factitious disorder imposed on another or formerly called Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
What does the nurse have to teach a new graduate nurse that applies to all personality disorders?
Patients with personality disorders have difficulty understanding personal boundaries and this is seen with all personality disorders.
What are two substances that should not be taken with antipsychotics?
What is Grapefruit juice and Alcohol
What condition causes these following symptoms: Agitation, shivering, sweating, muscle rigidity, nausea, vomiting, tachycardia, labile blood pressure.
What is Serotonin Syndrome