- Delirium.
- Psychosis.
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Generalized anxiety disorder.
Category: BS Nursing
- To identify feelings of hopelessness within 24 hours.
- To participate in one group activity by the end of the week.
- To demonstrate improved social interaction and engagement in meaningful activities within 3 months.
- To verbalize understanding of medication side effects.
- Force the patient to take the medication, citing their need for treatment.
- Document refusal and inform the physician.
- Offer the medication again later, perhaps in a different form if permissible.
- Explain the chemical composition of the medication.
- Immediate return to previous social environment.
- Engagement in a comprehensive rehabilitation program and support groups.
- Avoiding all forms of social interaction.
- Relying solely on willpower to stay sober.
- Labile affect.
- Blunted affect.
- Flat affect.
- Restricted affect.
- Long-term memory loss.
- Cardiac arrhythmias and respiratory depression post-seizure.
- Skin breakdown from electrodes.
- Increased appetite.
- Flooding.
- Systematic desensitization.
- Aversion therapy.
- Token economy.
- Manipulate staff for attention.
- Express anger towards others.
- Cope with overwhelming emotional pain.
- Avoid responsibility for their actions.
- Beneficence.
- Autonomy.
- Confidentiality.
- Justice.
- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS).
- Lithium toxicity.
- Serotonin syndrome.
- Hypertensive crisis.
- Encouraging participation in stimulating group activities.
- Providing a quiet, structured, and consistent environment.
- Allowing freedom to interact with all patients and visitors.
- Removing all rules and expectations to minimize frustration.
- Diagnose the patient's mental illness.
- Provide a snapshot of the patient's current mental state.
- Predict the patient's future behavior.
- Determine the patient's intelligence quotient.
- "Who is 'they'?"
- "I understand you believe your food is poisoned, but I assure you it is safe."
- "Don't be silly, no one is trying to poison you."
- "Let's ask the doctor about this."
- Directly confront the patient about their lack of insight.
- Provide education about the illness in a non-judgmental and supportive manner.
- Avoid discussing the illness to prevent frustration.
- Encourage the patient's family to convince them.
- Engaging in logical thought.
- Performing activities of daily living (ADLs).
- Expressing delusions.
- Maintaining social relationships.
- Tardive dyskinesia.
- Acute dystonia.
- Akathisia.
- Pseudoparkinsonism.
- Thought process.
- Thought content.
- Perception.
- Mood.
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