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NSG 3050 Psych Essential Test Toolkit Exam Questions and Approved with Distinction Marking Scheme Latest 2024/2025 What is reuptake? - correct answer Occurs when the neurotransmitter is reabsorbed into the presynaptic neuron that it was previously released from. What symptoms ARE relieved by ...

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NSG 3050 Psych Essential Test
Toolkit Exam Questions and
Approved with Distinction Marking
Scheme Latest 2024/2025


What is reuptake? - correct answer Occurs when the
neurotransmitter is reabsorbed into the presynaptic neuron that
it was previously released from.


What symptoms ARE relieved by psychotropic medications? -
correct answer psychic function, behavior, and experience


What symptoms ARE NOT relieved by psychotropic medication? -
correct answer emotional problems and they do not 'cure'
mental illnesses.


What law exists in most states regarding administration of
psychotropic medications? - correct answer Client's right to
refuse treatment unless likely to harm themselves or others.


The nurse must monitor for_____ and _____ effects when
administering psychotropic medications - correct answer side,
adverse
Addiction - correct answer A compulsive or chronic
requirement. The desire is so strong as to generate distress if left
unfulfilled.

,Intoxication - correct answer A physical and mental state of
exhilaration/euphoria and emotional frenzy


Withdrawal: - correct answer The physiological and mental
change that accompanies the termination of an addictive
substance.


Genetic influences - correct answer Hereditary factors are
common in alcoholism


Biochemical factors that effect addiction - correct answer Brain
may produce morphine like substance in that are responsible for
alcohol addiction


Psychological factors that effect addiction - correct answer
Developmental influences (superego is fixed at the oral stage)


Personality factors (depression, passivity, etc.)


Major physical side effects of alcohol abuse - correct answer a.
Peripheral neuropathy - nerve damage/pain, tingling, prickly
sensation
b. Alcoholic Myopathy - sudden onset of muscle pain
c. Wenicke's encephalopathy - paralysis of the ocular muscles,
diplopia, ataxia, somnolence, and stupor.
d. Korasakoff's psychosis - syndrome of confusion and memory
loss
e. Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy - accumulation of lipids in the
myocardial cells > weakening

, f. Esophagitis - inflammation of the esophagus
g. Alcoholic Hepatitis: inflammation of the liver -
nausea/enlarged white count
h. Cirrhosis of the liver: end stage of kidney disease, liver cells
replaced by scar tissue.
Portal hypertension - elevated blood pressure
Ascites - condition in which an excessive amount of serous fluid
accumulates in the abdominal cavity,
Esophageal category: vein in the esophagus that becomes
distended
Hepatic encephalopathy - inability of the liver to convert
ammonia to urea for excretion
i. Leukopenia - production of white blood cell
j. Thrombocytopenia - Platelet production and survival
k. Sexual dysfunction - interferes with production of hormones
l. Use during pregnancy leads to fetal defects.


What is codependency? - correct answer "Codependency is an
unconscious addiction to another person's abnormal behavior."


Barbituates (non-barbituatie) signs of OD - correct answer
anxiety, fever, agitation, hallucinations


Amphetimine OD signs - correct answer Cardiac arrythmias,
headache, convulsions


Alcohol OD sx - correct answer Nausea, vomiting, shallow
respiration, shock sx

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