Mental Health 3.txt

you must have how many symptoms in a month to be diagnosed with schizophrenia?

negative symptoms of schiz?

positive smyptoms of schiz?

cognitive symptoms of schiz?

depressing symptoms of schiz?

Schizophrenia has 3 kind of hallucinations?

what is command hallucinations?

types of schizophrenia?

suspicious toward others, and hallucinations?

with drawl from society and very inappropriate behaviors such as poor hygiene and muttering constantly to self, more in homeless, bizarre mannerisms, speech hallucination and delusions

characterized by 2 abnormal movements?

constant movement, unusual movement, posturing, incohherent speech, self care needs may be predominate, danger to self or others in thsi catatonic stage

client may appear comatose, waxy, flexibility, extreme self care needs in this catatonic stage?

active symptoms are no longer present but the client has two or more symptoms?

the client has symptoms of schiz but does not meet criteria for any other types

goal of psychosocial treatment?

etiology of schiz?

hwo do u assess a schiz pt?

schiz meds? treats pos and neg symptoms

meds of schiz that treat pos symptoms?

antidepressant?

anxiolytics/benzos

what should the nurse asses for in the psychiatric pt

what should we have pt monitor with bipolar disorder!?

Mood disorders with recurrent episodes of depression and mania, characterized by wide fluctations in mood and affect.

extremely elevated mood with accompying agitated behavior

the altertations in mood between depression

mild of mania without significant impairment

euphoria, agitation, irritability, increased talking, activity, impulse, flight of ideas, grandiose view of self, poor judgement, attention seeking, decreased sleep, delusions, halucinations, denial of illness

flat, blunted, liable effect, tearful, crinyg, lack of energy, anhendonia, physical symptoms of discomfort/ pain, self destructive behavior, disturbed sleep

a very risky sexual behavior coming forth and cant sit down!

what meds are used if lithium doesnt work?

tegretol

side effects of anticonvulsants?

what are four common characteristics of personality disorders?

personality disorders are divided in how many groups?

Group A

Group B

Group C

perfectionist, focuses on orderliness and control, individual may not be able to finish

social inhibition, avoidance of all wants a relationship but fears rejection,

extreme dependent, relationship urge replacement, personality disorder seen in clinics

disgreduard, unlawful actions,deceitful, fails to accept respsonsibility, the anti social goes to jail

unstable , fear abandonment,manipulative and impulsive, borderline "breaks hearts"

seeks emotinoal attention, center of attention and seductive and flirtatious

arrogant, grandiose view of self,needs admiration,lacks empathy toward others,sensitive toward critism

group of conditions characterized by the disruption of thinking, memory, processing and problem solving

cognitive disorders include

should you use rugs for people with cognitive disorders?

short onset(hours or days)fluctiatin impairments

LOC altered, sundowning may occur, restless

perceptual disturbances, and unstable

gradual onset, impairments do not change thru otu the day

LOC usually unchanged, restless, agitation, sundowning can occur

persnality change is gradual, VS remain stable

what can cause delirium? is it reversible?

caused by a chronic disease, cased by permanent trauma, irreversible

what are the 4 stages of alzhiemers?

short term loss, decreased attn span, substitute personality disorders, mild cognitive deficits, diff with depth perception, what stage of alzhiemers is this?

obvious memory loss,wandering, confusion, impaired judgement, confabilation, sundowning, irritable,, poor spatial orientation, symptoms of stress, depression, what stage of alzhmiers is this?

loss of reasoning and ability, increasing loss of expressive language, loss of adl's, more withdrawn, what stage of alzheimers is this?

impaired or absent cognitive,communication and motor skills, bowel or bladder incontinence, inibility to recognize things, what stage of alzheimers is this?

how are meds for alzhmeirs based?

cholinesterase inhibitor?

used in mild to mdoerate alzheimers?

n/v, bradycardia?

when should u administer cholinesterase inhibitor? and what to aovid?

blocks the entry of calcium into nervee cells which slows brain cell death

associated wiht overwhelming stress, traumatic life events, accidents, disasters,witnessed or experienced

amnesia, inability to recall some or all of ones past and idenit, may form new idenity, can last hours or weeks or months

formally known as multiple personality disorder

DID symptoms

a recurrent sense of detaachment from ones body or mental processes-feel like an obsever of ones life

generally associated with child abuse

defect in appearnance which causes significant distress or interferes with socialization, occupational or other important aspects of functioning

morbid fear of obesity, body weight less than 85% of norm, calorie counters

eats large amount of foods over a short time and then vomits it up

somatization disorder? reactions?

impaired liver function test, elevated cholesterol leverl, decreased bone density, hypokalemia, leukopenia, abnormal thyroid test

hyperkalemia, hyponatremia, hypochloremia, electrolyte imbalance

antidepressants?

antipsychotics?

what are the main problems with anorexia and bulimia?