NURS 6438 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
COMPREHENSIVE FINAL CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
◉ What do you give a opioid overdose patient?
Answer: Narcan (Naloxone)
◉ S/S of acute alcohol withdrawal?
Answer: Everything is increased! RR, BP, Temp, HR, delerium
◉ Characteristics of histrionic personality disorder?
Answer: Mania, melodramatic, manipulative, emotional attention
seeking behavior, often seductive and flirtatious.
◉ Interventions for histrionic personality disorder patient
Answer: They are very manipulative. Set fine lines, do not offer
relationship advice, avoid situations where they are the center of
attention.
◉ Possible fatal complications of patient withdrawing from CNS
stimulant
,Answer: Respiratory failure, suicide, and depression.
◉ What is a hypochondriac?
Answer: Someone who thinks that everything is wrong with them.
Ex. their acute headache is caused by a brain tumor.
◉ How does cocaine stimulate the body? What do cocaine users use
to combat these effects?
Answer: It is an upper. Alcohol-allows them to sleep.
◉ Characteristics of borderline personality disorder
Answer: Split people apart and are very manipulative.
◉ Interventions for nurses dealing with borderline personality
disorder patients
Answer: Keep all the staff on the same page. Set limits and rules.
◉ What is a personality disorder in general? What type of issues do
these patients have?
Answer: When people rely on others to make decisions. They have
difficulties in their social life, work, relationships, family problems.
Place the blame on others. Many go undiagnosed.
, ◉ What is conversion disorder?`
Answer: Something psychological happens and it then manifests
somatically. Ex. Someone has fake blindness
◉ What is the difference between objective and subjective data?
Answer: Subjective is what the patient tells you, objective is what
you see and obtain from the physical assessment of the patient.
◉ What is somatoform disorder?
Answer: A mental illness that causes bodily symptoms that cannot
be tracked back to any specific cause.
◉ Are the symptoms real for a patient with somatoform disorder?
Answer: Yes, the symptoms are real. It is frustrating because many
doctors will perform tests but find nothing. Many go undiagnosed.
◉ What are younger patients with body image problems at risk for?
Answer: Suicide
◉ A nurse caring for a patient with borderline personality disorder
should try to find out what?
Answer: What the patients secondary gains are. What are they trying
to get? Attention? Money? Pain pills?
COMPREHENSIVE FINAL CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
◉ What do you give a opioid overdose patient?
Answer: Narcan (Naloxone)
◉ S/S of acute alcohol withdrawal?
Answer: Everything is increased! RR, BP, Temp, HR, delerium
◉ Characteristics of histrionic personality disorder?
Answer: Mania, melodramatic, manipulative, emotional attention
seeking behavior, often seductive and flirtatious.
◉ Interventions for histrionic personality disorder patient
Answer: They are very manipulative. Set fine lines, do not offer
relationship advice, avoid situations where they are the center of
attention.
◉ Possible fatal complications of patient withdrawing from CNS
stimulant
,Answer: Respiratory failure, suicide, and depression.
◉ What is a hypochondriac?
Answer: Someone who thinks that everything is wrong with them.
Ex. their acute headache is caused by a brain tumor.
◉ How does cocaine stimulate the body? What do cocaine users use
to combat these effects?
Answer: It is an upper. Alcohol-allows them to sleep.
◉ Characteristics of borderline personality disorder
Answer: Split people apart and are very manipulative.
◉ Interventions for nurses dealing with borderline personality
disorder patients
Answer: Keep all the staff on the same page. Set limits and rules.
◉ What is a personality disorder in general? What type of issues do
these patients have?
Answer: When people rely on others to make decisions. They have
difficulties in their social life, work, relationships, family problems.
Place the blame on others. Many go undiagnosed.
, ◉ What is conversion disorder?`
Answer: Something psychological happens and it then manifests
somatically. Ex. Someone has fake blindness
◉ What is the difference between objective and subjective data?
Answer: Subjective is what the patient tells you, objective is what
you see and obtain from the physical assessment of the patient.
◉ What is somatoform disorder?
Answer: A mental illness that causes bodily symptoms that cannot
be tracked back to any specific cause.
◉ Are the symptoms real for a patient with somatoform disorder?
Answer: Yes, the symptoms are real. It is frustrating because many
doctors will perform tests but find nothing. Many go undiagnosed.
◉ What are younger patients with body image problems at risk for?
Answer: Suicide
◉ A nurse caring for a patient with borderline personality disorder
should try to find out what?
Answer: What the patients secondary gains are. What are they trying
to get? Attention? Money? Pain pills?
