FINAL EXAM SCHIZOPHRENIA
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
What is anergia? - ANSWER-lack of persistence impaired grooming or lack of energy
What is affective blunting? - ANSWER-diminished emptions
What is anhedonia? - ANSWER-loss of capacity to experience pleasure once experienced
What is opisthotonos? - ANSWER-spasm of the muscles causing backward arching of the
head, neck, and spine
What medication would the nurse administer for a patient with NMS? - ANSWER-
bromocriptine (Parodel) and dantrolene (Dantrium)
What is the first sign of NMS? - ANSWER-fever
What other signs would the nurse expect with a patient with NMS? - ANSWER-severe
muscle rigidity, oculogyric crisis, dysphasia, flexor-extensor posturing, cog wheeling, temp
over 103, Autonomic dysfunction- hypertensions, tachycardia, diaphoresis, incontinence
What is the treatment of choice for acute dystonia? - ANSWER-Benadryl, artane or
Cogentine
What is thought withdrawal? - ANSWER-thoughts are taken away
What is erotomania? - ANSWER-belief that a famous person is love with them
What is nihilistic? - ANSWER-false conviction that major catastrophe is about to happen
What is a delusion? - ANSWER-a fixed false belief
What is an hallucination? - ANSWER-a perception of something not present with on of the 5
senses
A patient who is making up words, would be termed? - ANSWER-neologism
When a patient states the TV is giving them a message, this is an example of what? -
ANSWER-ideas of reference
When a patient, is rhyming words, this is an example of what? - ANSWER-clang
association
When a patient is jumbling words that are meaningless, this is an example of what? -
ANSWER-word salad
What is alogia? - ANSWER-poverty of speech, lack of words
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
What is anergia? - ANSWER-lack of persistence impaired grooming or lack of energy
What is affective blunting? - ANSWER-diminished emptions
What is anhedonia? - ANSWER-loss of capacity to experience pleasure once experienced
What is opisthotonos? - ANSWER-spasm of the muscles causing backward arching of the
head, neck, and spine
What medication would the nurse administer for a patient with NMS? - ANSWER-
bromocriptine (Parodel) and dantrolene (Dantrium)
What is the first sign of NMS? - ANSWER-fever
What other signs would the nurse expect with a patient with NMS? - ANSWER-severe
muscle rigidity, oculogyric crisis, dysphasia, flexor-extensor posturing, cog wheeling, temp
over 103, Autonomic dysfunction- hypertensions, tachycardia, diaphoresis, incontinence
What is the treatment of choice for acute dystonia? - ANSWER-Benadryl, artane or
Cogentine
What is thought withdrawal? - ANSWER-thoughts are taken away
What is erotomania? - ANSWER-belief that a famous person is love with them
What is nihilistic? - ANSWER-false conviction that major catastrophe is about to happen
What is a delusion? - ANSWER-a fixed false belief
What is an hallucination? - ANSWER-a perception of something not present with on of the 5
senses
A patient who is making up words, would be termed? - ANSWER-neologism
When a patient states the TV is giving them a message, this is an example of what? -
ANSWER-ideas of reference
When a patient, is rhyming words, this is an example of what? - ANSWER-clang
association
When a patient is jumbling words that are meaningless, this is an example of what? -
ANSWER-word salad
What is alogia? - ANSWER-poverty of speech, lack of words
