PRN1562/ PRN 1562 Exam 2 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update)
Mental Health Nursing |Review with Questions and Verified
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Interventions when a client is at risk for suicide? - ANSWER Remove
shoestrings, curtain Rods and glass items. Give the client plastic wear to eat with.
Signs of a bipolar manic episode? - ANSWER Risky behavior, high self
esteem
When a client is manic the best therapeutic communication is? - ANSWER
calm but firm, be consistent, short explanations, redirect energy, Identify expectations and
consequences.
Mini mental statues exam (MMSE) is used to? - ANSWER assess
dementia by assessing the client's cognitive status through a series of questions such as: word
recall and following directions such as drawing a clock face
Clients are at higher risk for suicide if? - ANSWER they have a family
history or is abused
,Compassion fatigue (Secondary Traumatic Stress) - ANSWER emotional
effect that nurses and other health care workers may experience by being indirectly traumatized
when helping or trying to help a person who has experienced primary traumatic stress
Restraints are used if? - ANSWER -patient is a danger to themselves or
others
-patient is interfering with medical therapies
Lamictal(lamotrigine) - ANSWER Used to treat bipolar disorder and can
cause a rash called steven-Johnson syndrome
Celexa (citalopram) used to treat? - ANSWER depression
, Citalopram and selegiline should? - ANSWER not be combined. It can
cause serotonin syndrome. Signs include confusion, hallucination, seizure, changes in blood
pressure, increased heart rate, blurred vision, tremor, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Severe
cases may result in coma or death
Fluvoxamine (Luvox) used to treat? - ANSWER OCD (obsessive
compulsive disorder) side effects are sexual dysfunction and suicidal thinking
Obsessions are what? - ANSWER what they think thoughts
A compulsion is what? - ANSWER what they do actions
Compulsions includes? - ANSWER repetitive or irresistible behaviors like
counting, chanting, checking, washing, tapping and ordering
. Buspirone used to treat? - ANSWER anxiety
side effects are sedation
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