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Mental Health 1

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The primary purpose of the Community Mental Health Center Act of 1963 was to move patients to their home communities for treatment.
Managed care is designed to maintain a balance between the quality and costs of health care.
Hospitals established by Dorothea Dix were designed to provide asylum
Hildegard Peplau is best known for her writing about therapeutic nurse–client relationship.
Mental health parity laws ensure equality in insurance coverage for mental illness.
first American psychiatric nurse Linda Richards
moral treatment of the mentally ill Dorothea Dix
therapeutic nurse–client relationship Peplau
asylum as a safe refuge Philippe pinel or William Dukes
classification of mental disorders according to symptoms Emil Kraepelin
The nurse is teaching a client taking an MAOI about foods with tyramine that he or she should avoid. Which statement indicates that the client needs further teaching? I’m so glad I can have pizza as long as I don’t order pepperoni.”
A client who has been depressed and suicidal started taking a tricyclic antidepressant 2 weeks ago and is now ready to leave the hospital to go home. Which is a concern for the nurse as discharge plans are finalized? The nurse will evaluate the risk for suicide by overdose of the tricyclic antidepressant
The signs of lithium toxicity include which? Severe vomiting, diarrhea, and weakness
Which is a concern for children taking stimulants for ADHD for several years? Growth suppression
The nurse is caring for a client with schizophrenia who is taking haloperidol (Haldol). The client complains of restlessness, cannot sit still, and has muscle stiffness. Of the following prn medications, which would the nurse administer? Benztropine (Cogentin), 2 mg PO
Client teaching for lamotrigine (Lamictal) should include which instructions? Report any rashes to your doctor immediately.
Which physician order would the nurse question for a client who has stated, “I’m allergic to phenothiazines?” Prolixin, 5 mg PO tid
Clients taking which type of psychotropic medications need close monitoring of their cardiac status? Antipsychotics
atypical antipsychotic Clozapine (Clozaril)
SSRI antidepressant Fluoxetine (Prozac)
Tricyclic antidepressant Amitriptyline (Elavil)
Anticholinergic Benztropine (Cogentin)
Stimulant Methylphenidate (Ritalin)
Anticonvulsant used as a mood stabilizer Carbamazepine (Tegretol)
Benzodiazepine Clonazepam (Klonopin)
Atypical antipsychotics Quetiapine (Seroquel)
rationale for tapering psychotropic medication doses before the client discontinues the drug. Abrupt cessation results in a rebound effect, recurrence of the original symptoms. Tapering gradually alleviate or minimizes these problems
PET A radioactive substance will be injected into bloodstream. will take 2-3 hours
Which theorist believed that a corrective interpersonal relationship with the therapist was the primary mode of treatment? Harry Stack Sullivan
Dream analysis and free association are techniques in which modality? Psychoanalysis
Four levels of anxiety were described by Hildegard Peplau.
Correcting how one thinks about the world and oneself is the focus of Cognitive therapy.
The personality structures of id, ego, and superego were described by Sigmund Freud.
The nursing role that involves being a substitute for another, such as a parent, is called surrogate.
Psychiatric rehabilitation focuses on client’s strengths.
When a nurse develops feelings toward a client that are based on the nurse’s past experience, it is called countertransference.
A group that was designed to meet weekly for 10 sessions to deal with feelings of depression would be a(n) closed group.
The client is the key to his or her own healing Carl Rogers
Social and psychological factors influence development. Erik Erikson
Client-centered therapy Carl Rogers
Hierarchy of needs Abraham Maslow
Created by: golds_berry
 

 



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