The Anxious Patient

Types of Anxiety

100

Presents energized with animated facial expressions and normal vital signs

What is Moderate Anxiety

200

The patient may report feeling completely out of control and may display extremes of behavior from combativeness to withdrawal

What is Panic Anxiety

300

excessive fear of a specific object, situation, or activity

What is phobia

True or False

100

Anxiety is a response to a perceived threat, a specific identifiable source which is recognized as danger

What is False. 

Fear

200

Confusion, difficulty concentrating, diminished ability to learn and solve problems, are all signs and symptoms of anxiety.

True.

300

Quickly isolate a patient that is combative during an episode of panic anxiety.

What is False.

Never isolate a patient that is having episodes of panic anxiety.

Coping

100

Name one emotional coping mechanism that was listed on the power point 

What is....

Crying, laughing, cursing

200

Name one physical coping mechanism that was listed on the power point.

What is...

Physical activity, exercise 

300

Name one psychological coping mechanism that was listed on the power point

What is...

Smoking, drinking

Interventions

100

A nurse should do which when dealing with an anxious patient, focus on strengths or focus on weaknesses of the patient 

What is focus on strengths.

200

When dealing with an anxious patient, at what pace should you move

What is the patients pace

300

When dealing with an anxious patient should you introduce new stimuli or decrease stimuli

What is decrease stimuli