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psychotropic drugs
when psychotropic drugs came available for use - CORRECT ANSWER a significant
change in the treatment of patients with mental illness occurred in the 1950 when
what happened?
widespread community based services - CORRECT ANSWER in 1963 legislation
enacted was largely responsible for which of the following shifts in the care of the
mentally ill
National League for Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER nursing education has become
broad in our practice setting in addition psych practice nursing became a
requirement in the 1950 by whom
increased number of admission to available hospital services - CORRECT ANSWER
one of the unforeseen effects of the movement toward community health
services is
provide food and shelter - CORRECT ANSWER creations of asylums was created to
do what
Massachusetts - CORRECT ANSWER first training of nurse to work with person of
mental illness was in 1882 in which state
, deinstitutionalize state hospital - CORRECT ANSWER The goal of the 1963
Community Mental Health Centers Act was to
histamine - CORRECT ANSWER achoo equals
controls alertness, gastric secretions, cardiac stimulation, peripheral allergic
responses
happy - CORRECT ANSWER dopamine equals
glutamate - CORRECT ANSWER Results in neurotoxicity if levels are too high
y-aminobutyric acid
(gamma-aminobutyric acid) - CORRECT ANSWER modulate other
neurotransmitters
epinephrine - CORRECT ANSWER controls fight or flight response
acetylcholine - CORRECT ANSWER controls sleep/wake cycle; signals muscles to
become alert
norepinephrine - CORRECT ANSWER causes changes in attention, learning and
memory, sleep and wakefulness, mood