Medications
Name one drug used to treat schizophrenia.
What is: Aripiprazole, Clozapine, Olanzapine, Quetiapine,
Risperidone, or Zipeasidone
The major symptoms of schizophrenia can be grouped into 4 symptom groups.
Name 2.
*Double- if all 4 are named.*
What are Positive, Negative, Cognitive, and Mood symptoms?
When using an accepting consisting approach, you are establishing what?
What is: trust and rapport
What kind of listening can we utilize when treating/communicating with a schizophrenic patient?
What is active listening?
A person who has schizophrenia may undergo ECT- What does the acronym ECT stand for?
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
Name 3 side effects of medication for schizophrenia.
What is: Drowsiness, Dizziness, Weight Gain, Dry Mouth, Constipation, N/V/D, Restlessness
A nonspecific feeling of having lost one’s identity: the self is different or unreal.“I feel like I am observing myself outside my body.”
What is depersonalization?
This is an evidence based therapeutic intervention aimed at informing patients and their loved ones about their disorder and its treatment.
What is: Psychoeducation
Asking these type of questions to your schizophrenic patient can help improve therapeutic communication between the patient and the nurse.
What are open ended questions?
What ages does schizophrenia typically appear?
Teens to early twenties.
What should you watch for when starting a schizophrenia patient on new medications?
What is: Extrapyramidal Symptoms and Depression
Handbook that contains descriptions, symptoms and other criteria for diagnosing mental disorders.
What is the DSM-5?
A patient is experiencing auditory hallucinations. How can the nurse intervene?
What is: distraction. (Ex: watching TV, listening to music, or conversing with others).
Establishing this five letter word starting with “T” with a patient who is schizophrenic is the first step in building rapport with your patient..
What is trust?
This actress (shown in the picture here) plays Spencer Reid’s schizophrenic mother in CBS’s popular FBI behavioral unit drama “Criminal Minds”.
Who is Jane Lynch?
How long does it take for schizophrenia medications to start to take effect?
6 weeks
Positive symptoms are those that add to or distort the person’s normal functioning. Name three positive symptoms.
What are hallucinations, delusions, hyperactivity, disorganized speech,paranoia, or catatonia?
Give one example of using appropriate communication to address hallucination and delusions in the patient experiencing psychosis.
What is:
Ask the patient directly about hallucinations. Do not argue or disagree.
Empathize with the patients experience/feelings and reorient to reality.
Ask the patient direct questions about paranoia.
Initially, when first communicating with a schizophrenic patient, the nurse must determine what?
What is; what exactly is the client experiencing/is the client thinking thoughts that could harm themselves or others?
Derived from Greek roots “schizo” means what?
What is split?
What is used to treat schizophrenia when medication becomes ineffective?
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
This movie/show has characters who represent mental health disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, general anxiety…One hallucinates a white rabbit with a clock and coat and decided to follow it.
Who is Alice in Wonderland?
Name one way to keep anxiety from escalating with a patient who has schizophrenia.
What is: calm environment by keeping stimuli low and maintaining a quiet room.
A nurse asking a schizophrenic patient “I don’t hear any voices; What are you hearing?” is an example of what therapeutic communication technique?
What is presenting reality/ seeking clarification?
How much of the American population will develop schizophrenia?
1%