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NURS 660 Exam 1 Study Guide 2023. Suicide Assessment DIM - Suicide appears to occur when a mental Disorder is present, Intent develops, and Means become available When Should Suicide Assessment be Conducted?  First assessment on any patient with a mental illness or substance abuse diagnosis.  When a patient experiences sadness, low mood, recent loss or hopelessness, and at each subsequent session as long as the patient remains at risk.  Any time a patient has any other identified...

Exam 1: NURS660/ NURS 660 (NEW 2023/ 2024) Psychopharmacology and Advanced Mental Health Exam | 100% Correct | Complete guide with Questions and Verified Answers - Maryville Question Effects of high potency antipsychotics: Less histamine, muscarinic effects Less sedation, weight gain, anticholinergic effects More EPS effects Affinity for and Tightly bind to D2 receptors Question Drug Potency vs Efficacy Answer: Drug potency refers to the receptors affinity, abi...

Nurs 660 Exam 1 Latest version – Questions and Answers 100% Correct sequencing Correct Answer putting events in proper sequence to help the patient slow down the events and process them theming Correct Answer theme identification helps the patient to identify patterns of behavior recognizing Correct Answer helps the patient to know that his feelings are understood and accepted and encouraged him to continue to express them validating Correct Answer the recognition and acceptance of ano...

1 NURS 660 Exam 1 Study Guide for Fall 2017 **Note: I did not include "Interviewing and assessment of the child and the adult" or "Techniques for interviewing kids" since that is basically the entire book by Cepeda & Gotanco (2016). It was also the topic of week 6 discussion and week 4 group case study (Craig). Hope this helps! Suicide Assessment DIM - Suicide appears to occur when a mental Disorder is present, Intent develops, and Means become available When Should Suicide Assessm...

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NURS 660 Exam 1 Study Guide 2023. GLUTAMATE  Excitatory NT, can excite and turn on all virtually ALL CNS neurons. Known as the master switch  Glutamate is released from synaptic vesicles, interacts with neighbor cells (glia) is taken up into glia VIA excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs), it is converted to glutamine inside glia by enzyme glutamine synthetase, glutamine is released and SNAT (specific neutral amino acid transporters) takes it back into presynaptic neuron where it...

NURS 660 Exam 1 Study Guide 2023. What are the reasons for living and those for dying?  What has prevented the patient from carrying out the act, or  How has s/he managed to evade the act of suicide thus far?  Is there anything different now or anticipated to be different in the near future?  Has the suicidal ideation been shared with anyone else besides the therapist?  Who has been or could be helpful in managing the ideation?  This will allow for the involvement of fami...

NURS 660 Exam 1 Study Guide 2023. Suicide Assessment DIM - Suicide appears to occur when a mental Disorder is present, Intent develops, and Means become available When Should Suicide Assessment be Conducted?  First assessment on any patient with a mental illness or substance abuse diagnosis.  When a patient experiences sadness, low mood, recent loss or hopelessness, and at each subsequent session as long as the patient remains at risk.  Any time a patient has any other identified...

A nurse administers an antihypertensive medication to a patient at the scheduled time of 0900. The nursing assistive personnel (NAP) then reports to the nurse that the patient's blood pressure was low when it was taken at 0830. The NAP states they were busy and did not have a chance to tell the nurse yet. The patient begins to complain of feeling dizzy and light-headed. The blood pressure is rechecked and it has dropped even lower. In which phase of the nursing process did the nurse first make ...