PRN1562/ PRN 1562 Exam 2 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Mental Health Nursing |Review with Questions and Verified Answers|100% Correct| Grade A - Rasmussen 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 1 / 3
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 Signs of anxiety includes? - ANSWER impending doom, chest tightness, increased blood pressure Lamictal(lamotrigine) - ANSWER Used to treat bipolar disorder and can cause a rash called steven-Johnson syndrome Celexa (citalopram) used to treat? - ANSWER depression 2 / 3
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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