Psychopharmacology Worksheet 1. What must the nurse be on the alert for with the client who is receiving antidepressant medication? The nurse should be particularly alert to sudden lifts in mood. 2. As the nurse when would you expect the client to begin showing signs of symptomatic relief after the initiation of antidepressant therapy? The therapeutic effect may not be seen for as long as 4 weeks. Name an example of a tricyclic antidepressant Amoxapine (Asendin) Name an example of a
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About 1% of the world’s population have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder affecting how a person thinks‚ feels‚ and acts. The causes of schizophrenia are still unknown although some theories include a person’s genetics and biology. A person with schizophrenia will experience many different signs‚ symptoms and behaviors‚ and treatments. Statistically Schizophrenia affects more males than females and symptoms most commonly start to show up in an individual
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likely to be associated with the excessive use of certain ________ drugs. A) antidepressant *B) antipsychotic PG 676 C) antimanic D) antianxiety 3. Electroconvulsive therapy has proven to be effective in the treatment of: A) phobias. B) dissociative disorders. C) schizophrenia. *D) depression. PG 679 4. Xanax and Valium are ________ drugs. A) antidepressant B) antipsychotic C) antimanic *D) antianxiety PG 676 5. When Rubin received a well-deserved job promotion‚
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Dopamine has been the main theory regarding the cause of the disease. Antipsychotic medication‚ block dopamine and serotonin transmission in the brain. Clozaril‚ resperdal‚ zyprera‚ and seroquel are four newer antipsychotic medications. The symptom is alleviated with older antipsychotic medication. These are divided into groups depending on their potency. If a drug has a low potency‚ more of it is needed to relieve the symptom
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disorder‚ which was used to gauge whether the results pertained only to schizophrenia. The second part of the study was conducted on 29 diagnosed schizophrenics - 13 patients who had not taken antipsychotics for at least 3 months‚ 5 drug-free patients‚ and 16 patients who were being treated with antipsychotics; as well as a healthy control group (Howes‚ et al.‚ 2013). The patients and control group underwent PET (positron emission tomography scanning) to look at the way dopamine functioned within the
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This essay focuses on the diagnosis of schizophrenia‚ a major mental illness with much stigma and misinformation associated with it. World Health Organisation (WHO‚ 2012) epidemiological evidence suggests that schizophrenia is a mental illness affecting 24 million people worldwide. This essay will define schizophrenia and its characteristic signs and symptoms in relation to cognition‚ mood‚ behaviour and psychosocial functioning. The criteria enabling a diagnosis of schizophrenia are explored‚ as
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record states he had schizophrenia. He was legally sane when on his medication‚ but there were also times he refused to take his medication which results in paranoia. The argument is‚ should the state force metal ill prisoners to take antipsychotic drugs to make them sane enough for execution? Washington vs. Harper’s law allows prison authorities to medicate mentally ill inmates against their will if they become danger to self or others‚ in that case‚ Charles Singleton was
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Schizophrenia and It’s This paper will go over the basics of what schizophrenia. The various types of treatments that are available for patients with Schizophrenia will be covered more in depth. Treatments “To be a schizophrenic it is best summed up in a repeating dream that I have had since childhood. In this dream I am lying on a beautiful sunlit beach but my body is in pieces . . . . I realize that the tide is coming in and that I am unable to gather the parts of my dismembered body
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Schizophrenia and Nursing Interventions Schizophrenia‚ a chronic and immobilizing condition defined as a psychiatric disease affects approximately 1% of the world’s population (Harris‚ Nagy & Vargaaxis‚ 2011). It is known to decrease the standard life expectancy by ten years due to its dire effects on morbidity and mortality‚ ranking it to be among the ‘top ten causes of disability adjusted life years” (Zigmond‚ Rowland & Coyle‚ 2015). The disease presents itself most commonly in young adults‚ and
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The biological approach asserts that something in our biology is the fundamental cause of dysfunctional behaviour which could be a genetic cause or a malfunction of brain structures. Although it is seen as the most common explanation for schizophrenia due to the use of drug therapy‚ it would be deterministic and reductionist to explain schizophrenia only with the biological approach since there are other numerous factors such as the ones related to the cognitive explanation or other environmental
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