Psych final review tests!! Flashcards
Which is more detailed documentation?
Client refused to go to group, or client is pacing in has cursing. (In Chart the more specific the better, why did client not go to group? Sleeping??)
An involuntary admit has what rights?
The right to atty and right to refuse TX, until judicially committed
PET scan shows
Blood Flow and glucose metabolism, know that
Which disorder is related to depression?
Parkinsonism
Serotonin is linked to which illness?
Depression
Motor function and memory are found in which lobe?
Temporal
Which lobe is executive function?
Frontal
Where in the Temporal lobe is memory found?
? Hippocampus
A voluntary admit wants to leave, what must they do?
Sign and wait 3 business days
You have an Alzheimer’s patient, what medicine is best?
? One that increases acetylcholine or stops the decrease of acetylcholine.
What must happen for an involuntary admit?
Witness to behavior over 18= first cert. , doctor must be called within one hour and see patient within 24 hours, second cert, court notified w/I 3 bus. Days
Your patient is going for an MRI what should you as nurse tell doctor?
? Patient has knee replacement, has claustrophobia
A nurse talks to the charge nurse “why should I not feel sympathy for that family, they lost their child the same way I lost mine?”
reply is “get to a shrink, handle your shit.”
Client says “I was really hard on my kids growing up” nurse says “you were strict?”
what is this? Paraphrasing or restating.
What is done during orientation?
Explaining confidentiality and the working contract.
A woman brings a child into ER, has bite marks and x-ray shows a healing fracture, what do you do?
Talk to parent more, or call CPS…your guess.
Your client is suicidal what is their GAF score?
10
Basal ganglia =
motor function
I want, I can, I will
Establishing an internal locus of control
Talking to a new patient about their rights, what else should you do?
Give them the booklet about rights in writing.
GABA
anxiety
Know facilitators and blockers.
Resistance
Transference
Counter transference
Boundary violations
In a mental health assessment what do you assess?
mood & affect, judgment, appearance, attitude & speech.
What are the criteria for involuntary treatment?
Danger to self or others, and cannot provide for one’s basic needs.
CT=
= gross anatomy, one dimensional
MRI
layers and structures, 3D
PET
blood flow, oxygen and glucose metabolism
SPECT
vascular
If a nurse becomes close to a patient and they start discussing their mutual things in common why is this a problem?
? Boundary Violations. No longer a therapeutic relationship.
You have a client who is mute, and the family states she hasn’t bathed or eaten in 5 days, is she wholly, partially, or supportive compensatory?
Wholly
What is their GAF score? 10
A patient states when he is released he intends to kill his wife and her lover, what do you do?
? Document it and tell the doctor, call the wife and lover immediately, make a report with the police.
The definition of Mental Health Nursing is:
: prevention of mental disorders, the treatment of disorders and the restoration of health.
What make the DSM IV special?
it classifies and gives statistical info.
If your patient had a stroke on the left side what should you as a nurse expect to find?
Client struggles to hold spoon with right hand.
What is the job of the neurotransmitter?
The electric impulse
How would a nurse assess a client’s judgment?
Ask what they would do if their house was on fire.
What is necessary for a properly written nursing DX?
? The NANDA DX, The etiology, and the supportive info.
Which is a properly written outcome statement?
Client will attend one group session by end of day
Also
Client will report a reduction in anxiety from severe to moderate by end of day.
What type of therapeutic communication is this;
“Can you give me an example of that?”
CLARIFYING.
What determines how a person views stress?
Locus of control
Hans Selye- what is important about him?
GAD theory/and PTSD work.
What is the GAD theory?
General Anxiety Disorder
CBT or cognitive behavior therapy-
change the way you think about things changes your stress.
Signs and symptoms of anxiety
mild, moderate, severe, and panic
Name two types of drugs to treat insomnia?
Benzodiazepine and nonbenzodiazepines.
What is a no benzodiazepine?
? Antihistamines, such as Benadryl.
ECT- electric convulsive treatment
done under sedation, approximately 12 treatments. Side effect= memory loss.
Which type of drug is an anti-depressant?
SSRI
Know about the allergy to tyramine
you get this from taking lithium. Which means you cannot eat cheese, wine, and other items that have tyramine in them.
Lithium-
Know that the therapeutic level is very close to the toxic level, therefore blood levels must be monitored, so only clients who will come in for blood work are candidates ALSO, hypertension patients cannot take lithium, you must be able to maintain normal levels of sodium. If sodium levels decrease the lithium will not be excreted, and will build up to toxic levels. Patients must also avoid very salty foods, such as lunch meats because too much sodium will increase renal excretion
If a patient cannot take lithium what could they take?
Depakote.
Anticonvulsant drugs-
why are these used to treat mania? There is a therapeutic side effect that stabilizes mood.
Know that coming off anti-convulsant drugs
needs to be slow.
Central serotonin syndrome
know about the dangers- if client takes 2 drugs that increase serotonin, could =death. Remember, St. John’s Wart although herbal does increase serotonin.
Know about the plan to prevent suicide in clinical settings.
No belts, shoe laces, building should have no breakable glass, sharp objects, metal silverware.. etc.
What is the daily schedule of the clinical setting called?
Milieu
Know what an anti-cholinergic effect is-
dry mouth, urinary retention, constipation, blurred vision. Slide #25 in Mood Disorders.
The main problem with MAOIs
is that they interact dangerously
with foods containing tyramine (an amino acid). The
combination can lead to acute hypertension (high blood
pressure). This can be very dangerous and cause stroke,
heart attack, or death, though such a severe reaction is rare.
Symptoms of a hypertensive attack are severe headache in the back
of the head, nausea, weakness, sudden collapse.
A partial list of foods to be avoided is
: cheese, yogurt, soy
sauce, avocado, ripe bananas or figs, smoked salmon, cured
ham, salami, pickled herring, broad beans.
Caffeine and chocolate should be used with caution
as they are diacritics and will make levels in blood stream
What is important when taking Lithium?
Need to have normal sodium range.
Your patient is on an MAOI which diet is best?
The one that doesn’t have processed meat, avocados, bananas, wine, or cheese- no old or mold.
You have a bi-polar patient, who is very manic, which food is best?
Finger food, so sandwich, apple,ect
Chronic depression over two years
= dysthymic disorder
You have a very anxious patient, which drug is a good drug for PRN?
? You want a benzo- quick acting, not Busbar, 4 weeks. Think Xanax.
Cognitive therapy-
but keep in mind any Cognitive question involves client to change THINKING!
Patient recently had knee surgery, feels as though will never recover, is depressed. Which should be the nursing DX?
Risk for hoplessness. (doesn’t think suicide was listed)
There is an adolescent patient that has suicidal ideations, which is the priority?
I have a neck tie and will hang myself tonight. (Has plan, plan is lethal, and has means to carry out plan)
When assessing for suicide what is the best question to ask client?
? One of these: do you have any firearms in your house, or are you having suicidal thoughts..If not suicidal who cares if they are a hunter.
If your patient has frontal lobe injury, what would you teach patient?
Don’t remember the choices, but know that frontal lobe is where judgment and decision making happens, they may need to get an opinion about choices from a family member.
Your patient is on lithium and an anti- psychotic med, why would they be on both?
Agitation relief. (a small dose will slow down mania)