Final Exam: PRN 1562/ PRN1562 (2023/2024
Update) Principles of Mental Health Nursing
Exam | Questions and Verified Answers |
Rasmussen
Q 1st
... [Show More] generation Psychotic Medications (treats positive symptoms): Major side effect
considerations:
✓ Answer: Tardive Dyskinesia
~ Acute Dystonia
~ Akathisia
Q Tardive Dyskinesia is?
✓ Answer: spasms of the mouth, tongue, lip-smacking, facial grimacing
Q Acute Dystonia is?
✓ Answer: muscle stiffness (especially neck and head)
Q Akathisia is?
✓ Answer: restlessness, pill rolling, pacing (rocking back and forth in a chair,
shifting weight from side to side)
Q Neuroleptic Malignancy Syndrome (NMS) is adverse effect of?
✓ Answer: use of Typical Antipsychotic (Ex: Haldol)
Q Neuroleptic Malignancy Syndrome (NMS) s/s include?
✓ Answer: Severe muscle rigidity, confusion, agitation, increased
temperature (104+), pulse and BP
Q Neuroleptic Malignancy Syndrome (NMS) priority nursing Interventions include?
✓ Answer: 1. Stop the medication
✓ 2. Dantrolene (fever reducing agents)
✓ 3. Cool body to reduce fever
✓ 4. Maintain hydration with IV fluids
✓ 5. Treat cardiac dysrhythmias
Q 2nd generation Psychotic Medications Affect what?
✓ Answer: impacts dopamine and serotonin
Q 2nd generation Psychotic Medications Side effects and considerations are?
✓ Answer: weight gain, sexual dysfunction, sedation, GI disturbances
~ Major considerations: Clozapine (results in agranulocytosis; monitor
WBCs)
Q what are the three major kinds of somatoform disorders?
✓ Answer: Conversion Disorder
~ Factitious Disorder
~ Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Q somatoform disorder are?
✓ Answer: disorders characterized by physical symptoms for which no
known physical cause exists
Q conversion disorder
✓ Answer: a disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine
physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found
Q Factitious Disorders are?
✓ Answer: Condition in which a person acts as if he or she has a physical or
mental illness when he or she is not really sick.
Q Types of crises are?
✓ Answer: Situational/external,
✓ maturational/internal, and
✓ adventitious/community
Q Situational crisis are?
✓ Answer: Ex [Show Less]