What is dissemination? - ✔✔ Getting the research information out to those who need to know it!
Publication - highest level
Presenting at
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Presenting at Local Conference
Journal Club where one person reviews an article
What does a 17 on MMSE mean? - ✔✔ Moderate cognitive impairment
What is Tegretol in the CYP450 system? - ✔✔ Inducer -->will lower dose of Lamictal and BCP's
What do BCP's do to Lamictal? - ✔✔ Inducer - will lower dose of Lamictal
What is a Type I research error? - ✔✔ There IS a difference but you say there isn't a difference.
What is a Type II research error? - ✔✔ There is NO difference but you say there is a difference.
What is pseudo-dementia? - ✔✔ Cognitive impairment secondary to depression that clears when treated in the elderly. Dementia won't improve.
Is it normal for a 1 month old to have a palmar grasp? - ✔✔ Yes.
What is a drug 1/2 life? - ✔✔ The time it takes for 50% of a drug to be eliminated from the body.
What 3 atypicals can be used with teens? - ✔✔ Zyprexa, Abilify, Seroquel - low doses
What is a risk of using Tramadol? - ✔✔ Serotonin Syndrome as it is very serotonergic.
What is the allele seen in Asians that increase the risk of SJS? - ✔✔ HLAB-1502
When might you see toxic epidermal necrolysis? - ✔✔ With worsening of SJS
How many generations do you include for a genogram? - ✔✔ 1st degree - mother, father, siblings
2nd degree - grandparents & cousins
3rd degree -
What does messenger RNA code for? - ✔✔ Amino Acids
What is epigenetics? - ✔✔ Factors that affect genes - environmental, smoking, stress, etc...
What part of the brain is involved with OCD? - ✔✔ Basal Ganglia
Occipito-Frontal
What happens to the brain during adolescence? - ✔✔ Dendritic pruning
Emotions are controlled by amygdala
By adulthood, PFC involved as well
When do males typically present with schizophrenia? - ✔✔ 10-25 yo
When do females typically present with schizophrenia? - ✔✔ 25-35 yo
What does Erythromycin to trileptal? - ✔✔ You will need to decreases the level because Trileptal(inducer) and erythromycin is a inhibitor
ACE Inhibitors are the drug of choice for what? - ✔✔ Heart Failure
HTN
What are some psychiatric side effects seen with some asthma drugs - ✔✔ Leukotriene receptor agonists - singulair, accolade, zyflo = agitation, aggression, anxiety, hallucinations, depression, insomnia, SI, tremor
What should you watch for with Tegretol? - ✔✔ Agranulocytosis and Hyponatremia
What are the 3 CK muscle enzyme tests? - ✔✔ CKBB, CKMM, CKMB
Which one of the 3 muscle enzymes are related to cardiac muscle damage? - ✔✔ CKMB
What is the risk of a seriously elevated CKMB? - ✔✔ Polymyositis
Rhabdo
What is a normal CKMB? - ✔✔ 0.3 mcg/L
What psychoactives does Detrol interact with? - ✔✔ Topamax
KCL
Zonegran
What CN are you assessing when you have the patient shrug their shoulders? - ✔✔ CN XI - Spinal Accessory
What do you see in labs with HIV & Dementia? - ✔✔ CD4 <200
Viral Load is high
<20% get it with antiretroviral treatment
What is the scoring with the Beck Depression Inventory? - ✔✔ Self-Report - 0-63
0-13 - minimal
14-19 - mild
20-28 - moderate
29-63 - severe
What is sensitivity? - ✔✔ Helps rule-out disease = True Positive = Snout
What is specificity? - ✔✔ Helps rule-in disease = True Negative = Spin
What does a sed rate measure? - ✔✔ Inflammation (ESR - Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate) = distance in mm RBC's have descended in 1 hour.
What is a normal sed rate or ESR? - ✔✔ 0-22 males
0-29 females
What is a retic count? - ✔✔ Measures % of reticulocytes in blood (immature RBC's) Indicates whether enough RBC's are being produced by bone marrow.
What does a decreased retic count indicate? - ✔✔ Anemia - acute or chronic bleeding
What does an increased retic count indicate? - ✔✔ Bone marrow disorder or Vitamin Deficiency
What does an abnormal retic ount indicate in general? - ✔✔ Doesn't diagnose anything. First step is ID source of the issue.
What happens when you mix tegretol and macrolides? - ✔✔ Increase tegretol levels.
What happens if a pregnant women takes Accutane? - ✔✔ Birth defects.
What labs do you get with RA? - ✔✔ Sed rate, RF, ANA, C reactive protein, CBC, CMP, CRP - helps confirm diagnosis.
CRP and ESR are both increased in RA but NOT in osteoarthritis.
Where does the NP Code of Ethics come from? - ✔✔ ANA
When do you assume informed consent? - ✔✔ Unconscious
Incompetent
Life Threatening Situation
What are the legal ramifications of treating w/o informed consent? - ✔✔ Same as with informed consent
Who can declare a patient incompetent and appoint a guardian? - ✔✔ Only a court [Show Less]