answers
3 C's of cognitive therapy work? Ans✓✓✓ Catch, check and change
Affect Ans✓✓✓ The observable expression of mood.
An 8 year old boy comes to the office with his mom. She tells the doctor
that he has been c/o stomach aches. As a nurse what will you be
assessing for? Ans✓✓✓ Aside from the stomach ache, we will assess
the child for depression.
An 86 yr old man recently dx with MDD has all of a sudden started
calling all of his friends and family. As his nurse what is the priority for
this patient? Ans✓✓✓ Suicide watch
Antidepressant medication therapy Ans✓✓✓ Monoamine Oxidase
Inhibitors (MAOIs) - do not eat tyramine (in cured meats, aged cheese,
wine, beer, sauerkrut, soy sauce), it causes high blood
pressure/hypertension
Before starting your patient on a antipsychotic medication what is the
first thing you need to do as the nurse? Ans✓✓✓ Baseline vital signs
Biogenic Amines Ans✓✓✓ Consist of small molecules that contain a
amine group.
Dopamine
, Norepinephrine
Epinephrine
Serotonin
Histamine
Most central to current reasons of psychiatric disorders
Biologic Domain Interventions Ans✓✓✓ Health teaching,
pharmacologic, nutritional therapies, ECT,rTMS, light therapy
Bipolar Disorder Ans✓✓✓ Bipolar I
Bipolar II
Cyclothymic disorder
Bipolar I Ans✓✓✓ Manic Episodes - most extreme. Impairment in
social, occupations and interpersonal functioning. Endocrine disorder
my represent manic episodes. Cocaine can also cause mania.
Bipolar II Ans✓✓✓ No marked impairment in social or occupational
functioning. Hypomania, not as severe or long as bipolar I
Effects more females, onset in adolescence.