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health life span 2
nursing
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| PTSD | post traumatic stress disorder |
| Flashbacks | reliving an event as if it were happening during the original time |
| somatofirm disorders | physical symptoma related to a psychological cause |
| Malingering | conscious effort to produce symptoms for a desired goal |
| dissociative disorder | an unconscious defense mechanism to protect against overwhelming anxiety |
| hoapice philosophy | a concept of care that provides medical, physical, emotional and spiritual care to the dying |
| palliative care | a team oriented approach that provides care for clients with a lifelimiting illness |
| grief | the reaction of loss of a loved one |
| bereavement | social experience in DEALING WITH THE LOSS OF A LOVED ONE |
| ANXiolytics | anti anxiety drugs used to treat depression or insomnia |
| MDD | major depressive disorder, causes pain, suffering, psychological and social disability during drpression |
| DD | dysthymia disorder, chronic depression present most of the day for atleast 2 years |
| genetic factors | those factors that play a role in depression |
| mood disorder | characterized by delusions and hallucinations |
| bipolar disorder | biological in origin that causes mania and depression in the client |
| ECT | electroconsulvive therapy |
| Mania | irritable mood arousal or energy levels |
| hypomania | irritable mood arousal or energy levels characterized with a lack of psychotic symptoms |
| Lithium Carbonate | medication used for treatment of amnia or depression |
| Schizophrenia | disease affecting thinking, emotions, social; behavior and the ability to percieve reality |
| delusions | false fixed beliefs that cannot be corrected by reasoning |
| paranoia | intense, irrational suspicion that cannot be efended by facts or relity |
| stupor | client is motionless for long periods and may appear in a coma |
| illusins | distortion of the senses that distorts reality |
| hallucinations | sensory perceptions where no external stimulus exists |
| chidhood schizophrenia | severe deviations in ego function and psychotic disorder in a child |
| psychosis | symptomatic mental and psychological disorders characterized by more that one symptom |
| neuroleptic drugs | any drug that modifies psychotic behavior |
| antipsychotic agents | cause sedative and hypotensive effects in treatment |
| adverse reaction | reaction associated with a given medication that can cause harm. |
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