Behavioral science Flashcards

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What characterizes a learning disorder

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Difficulty learning a key academic skull
Math writing or reading

When expected to preform children show add symptoms

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What characterizes attention deficit disorder

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The pattern is occuring in at least two settings

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This is an intrusive reexperiencing, hyperarosal, and avoidance ascociated with a trauma. Lasts days to 1 month

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Acute stress disorder

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How long will stress persist in order to classify something as generalized anxiety disorder

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Symptoms over six months

Treat with antidepressents and cognitive behavior therapy

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This lasts between 3-6 months. Does not fit another diagnosis. Symptoms are anxiety after a stressor

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Adjustment disorder

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Define nonmalficence

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Do no harm

Ex: a prescription that is likely to do more harm than good should not be prescribed, even if the patient requests it

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Describe the onset of postpartum blues, depressions, and mania

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Blues: onset 2-3 days, resolves in 10

Depression: onset within 4 weeks

Psychosis: variable

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What is a child expected to accomplish at three years of age

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Imaginitive play in parelel, speak simple sentances, copy a circle, use utensils, and ride a tricycle

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Sudden onset. Lasts days to a month. Psychotic, alert, orientated. Symptoms not explained by a medical condition

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Brief psychotic disorder

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10
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Can a doctor ever have a relationship with a patient

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No. It is always always always unethical despite what school taught you

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What are the first line treatments for bi polar

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Lithium

Valproate- anticonvulsant

Second generation antipsychotic

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This is a lifelong pattern of seeking perfection, orderliness, and having control. Does not involve compulsions

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Obsessive compulsive personality disorder

Does not have intrusive obsession like OCD

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You have a patient who binges and vomits regularly. She has languo, enlarged parotid, small heart, and a bmi below 18

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She is anorexic!!

Apparently To be bullemic you need to be closer to an almost normal weight

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What if you refuse to eat but are just dandy with how you look

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Avoidant/ restrictive food intake disorder. In this, you don’t eat cause you don’t like food, but you don’t have body dysmorphia

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Bullemics do not show signs of

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Starvation!

No little heart, fractures (osteoporosis) etc

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If pt is compantant, what is the best way to improve adherence at discharge

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Giving a discharge checklist

17
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What benzos are used with liver disease

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Lorazepam

Oxazepam

Temazepam

“Out the liver” which is a weird way of remembering considering these ARNT out the liver.

18
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If you want to figure out how to prevent future adverse outcomes

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Do a root cause analysis

You must figure out why an adverse event is occuring before you can make suggestions

19
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This is a medical error in which the problem is identified before any harm is done

20
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What is a sentinel event

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Unexpected occurance involving death or serious injury to the patient that requires an investigation

Ex: inpatient si, retained object after surgery

21
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What is a preventable adverse event

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Injury to a patient due to failure to follow evidence based best practice guid lines

22
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What is the order of directives you follow when making life saving choices for patients

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Patient
Directive
Family member
“Someone who cares and knows wishes”

In emergencies you do not need consent

23
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When is a father legally allowed to find out the status of a child (paternity)

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Only when child support is requested

24
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Define conversion disorder

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Neurological symptoms do not line up with a neurological disease

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Define factious disorder
Patients fake symptoms because they like being sick (attention)
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Define malingering
Faking symptoms for an obvious benefit (like getting disability)
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Define somatic symptom disorder
Health anxiety with multiple somatic symptoms Distress but no loss of function (like conversion)
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Duty to act in patients best interest
Beneficence
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Duty to treat people fairly and equitably
Justice
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Can a drunk Alzheimer's patient revock medical poa
Apartently medical poa can be revoked at anytime regardless of compatance
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What wins, beneficence or autonomy
Autonomy prevails
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Describe an HMO
Must have pcp Needs referals Low costs to patients
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Tachypnea will lead to blowing off co2. What change does this have in the brain
Cerebral vasoconstriction. | Co2 is a cerebral vasodilator. Without it, constriction
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What is a cross over study
It is like an RTC, except that the placebos and cases "switch" after a wash out period