{"id":28840,"date":"2021-08-02T22:33:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T22:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/02\/scenario-1you-are-working-on-a-mental-health-inpatient-unit-and-just-finished-admitting\/"},"modified":"2021-08-02T22:33:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T22:33:48","slug":"scenario-1you-are-working-on-a-mental-health-inpatient-unit-and-just-finished-admitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/02\/scenario-1you-are-working-on-a-mental-health-inpatient-unit-and-just-finished-admitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenario 1You are working on a mental health inpatient unit and just finished admitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario 1 <br \/>You are working on a mental health inpatient unit and just finished admitting a patient with schizophrenia who stopped taking his medications three weeks ago. The patient is hallucinating but is not aggressive. The patient appears unbathed and unkempt. The hospitalist asks you to participate in treatment planning and has a few questions for you. Using the information from your textbook, develop appropriate answers regarding the assessment and treatment options for this patient. <br \/>What are the signs and symptoms the patient is exhibiting? (You may select any from the book.) <br \/>a. List the positive symptoms (select at least 3) and describe them <br \/>b. List the negative symptoms (select at least 3) and describe them <br \/>\u00a0 2. What questions did you ask the patient to assess for hallucinations? <br \/>\u00a0 3. What is a priority nursing intervention for this patient? <br \/>\u00a0 4. What first- and second-generation antipsychotics would you recommend? <br \/>a. Provide a brief overview of how first and second-generation medications work and include at least one medication name from each group. <br \/>\u00a0 5. What are some dangerous side effects for first and second-generation medications that we need to be mindful of for the patient? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario 1 You are working on a mental health inpatient unit and just finished admitting a patient with schizophrenia who stopped taking his medications three weeks ago. The patient is hallucinating but is not aggressive. The patient appears unbathed and unkempt. The hospitalist asks you to participate in treatment planning and has a few questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-28840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing","tag-nursing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}