DSM5/stats
Negative Symptoms
Delusions
Positive Symptoms
Pharmacology
100

Schizophrenia is more common in which gender

What is males? 

100

The prefx "A" is latin for?

What is "without"?

100

Give the definition of a delusion. 

What is a false belief that has no evidence to back them up?

100

Speech that is moving so rapidly from one thought to the other that it is impossible to comprehend

what is flight of ideas?

100

the main adverse effect clozaril is known for

What is agranulocytosis?

200

State the time frame symptoms must be present to diagnose with schizophrenia

What is for more than 6 months?

200

Theory behind the cause of negative symptoms

What is low dopamine in the prefrontal cortex? (area that affects exeutive functioning, working memory, social cognition, and emotional regulation)

200

Describe delusion of Grandeur

What is a belief of self-importance that is extensively inflated

200

Describe catatonia

what is

Pronounced increase or decrease of movement

Rigidity

waxy flexibility 

200

A teenaged client is being discharged from the psychiatric unit with a prescription for risperidone. The nurse providing medication teaching to the client’s mother should provide which response when asked about the risk her child faces for extrapyramidal side effects (EPSs)?

A. All antipsychotic medications have an equal chance of producing EPSs.

B. Advise the mother to ask the provider to change the medication to clozapine instead of risperidone.

C. Newer antipsychotic medications have a higher risk for EPSs.

D. Risperidone is a newer antipsychotic medication and has a lower risk of EPSs than older antipsychotics.

D. Risperidone is a newer antipsychotic medication and has a lower risk of EPSs than older antipsychotics.

300

List the typical onset age for male and females. 

What is late 20s (male) and late 30s (female)?

300

Describe Anhedonia

what is lack of pleasure in activities that are usually considered to be pleasurable?

300

Which delusion involves maintaining false beliefs having to do with their body?

What is somatic?

300

List the 5 types of hallucinations 

What is 

auditory

visual

gustatory (taste)

olfactory

tactile

300

Describe treatment for pseudoparkinsonism

What is anticholinergic/antiparkinsonian?

Benzotropine/ trihexyphenidyl

400

How many symptoms must be present for a dx of schizophrenia?


what is 2 or more symptoms?


400

Describe alogia 

What is lack of words?

400

This delusion involves believing that others can hear your thoughts

what is Thought broadcasting?

400

Type of speech where words are jumbled together with little to no meaning

what is word salad?

400

List symptoms for NMS

What is FEVER?

Fever: 105 degreees+, sweating

Encephalopathy: confusion, impaired memory, decreased LOC

Vital signs instability: BP fluctuation, tachycardia

Elevated WBC and CPK

Rigidity 


500

What symptoms can be present for schizophrenia based on the DSM5 criteria?

What is:

Delusions

Hallucinations

Speech Alteration 

Behavior Bizzare ?

Negative symptoms ("A")

500

Describe avolition 

What is lack of motivation?

500

Describe ideas of reference

What is false belief where one attaches self to events that have no relationship to them

500

type of speech where words chosen for communication are based solely on their sound (rhyme-time)

What is clang association?

500

List nursing actions for anticholinergic manifestations caused by first-generation antipsychotics

SUGARLESS GUM =dry mouth

 SIPPING ON WATER =dry mouth

AVOIDING HAZARDOUS ACTIVITIES =blurred vision

WEARING SUNGLASSES OUTSIDE=photophobia

EATING FOODS HIGH IN FIBER constipation

REGULAR EXERCISE=constipation 

MAINTAINING FLUID INTAKE OF 2-3 LITERS PER DAY=urinary hesitency or retention 

 VOIDING AFTER TAKING MEDICATION=urinary hesitency or retention