Boundary Concerns
When a patient expresses feeling for a nurse similar to feelings for someone in their past.
What is Transference?
The space between the Axon terminal of one nerve and the dendrites of the next nerve.
What is the synaptic gap?
Used to keep more of a neurotransmitter in a synaptic gap of a nerve chain.
What is Reuptake Inhibitor?
A group of people, in a specific area, performing a specific task is called a...
What is a milieu?
During this phase, a contract of safety and end of treatment date is planned.
What is the orientation phase?
Ensuring that a patient follows the facility rules and schedules each day.
What is Consistency?
Part of the brain that is associated with major depressive disorder.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Type of medication often used in depression that only affects the serotonin system.
What is building rapport?
A provider who can no longer care for a patient will need to complete this phase of a treatment plan.
What is the termination phase?
When a patient does not get what they want from one staff member so they ask another staff member.
What is staff splitting?
Type of diagnostic imaging used to visualize blood flow and activity in the brain.
These 2 naturally occurring chemicals are created in the Adrenal glands and have similar effects on the human body.
What are epinephrine and norepinephrine?
The concept that a nurse uses to let the patient do choose and perform as much as they can independently.
What is autonomy?
The phase of treatment that allows the patient and the health care worker opportunity to gather information for treatment planning.
What is orientation?
When a health care professional treats a patient similarly to a friend or family member from their past.
What is countertransference?
Visual diagnostic imagery to detect strokes or tumors in the brain.
This medication is used to assist patients with anxiety without any effects of drowsiness.
What is GABA? (Gamma-aminobutyric acid)
One of the most important concepts and requirements of any health care worker is to provide.....
What is safety?
Section of treatment when the patient is building coping skills and/or modifying them to meet their day to day needs.
What is the working phase?
Accepting a gift from a patient because they want to thank you for the care you provided.
What is boundary blurring?
Diagnostic test that has a contraindication with metallic items.
What is a MRI? (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
The therapeutic index of this medication is 0.6 - 1.2.
What is Lithium?
The process of using a medication to restrict the activities of a patient.
What is a chemical restraint?
Legal term when a health care professional stops caring for a patient without properly finding a suitable replacement for continuity of care.