| 1. |
Categorize psychiatric patients into three groups. |
| 2. |
List the factors you should consider while creating the best environment to examine a psychiatric patient. |
| 3. |
Describe how the appearance, movement, and speech of a psychiatric patient can help you establish an initial diagnosis. |
| 4. |
Provide a differential diagnosis on the basis of circumstantiality and tangentiality. |
| 5. |
Explain how thought content can provide insight into a patient's mental status. |
| 6. |
Identify four situations in which you may reveal confidential patient information. |
| 7. |
Emphasize the importance of documenting all interventions. |
| 8. |
Discuss the three basic elements of consent. |
| 9. |
List 7 points that should be covered during initial examination to assess a patient's competence. |
| 10. |
Identify circumstances under which you may be held liable for harm caused by your patient either to himself or others. |
| 11. |
List various common signs and symptoms of delirium. |
| 12. |
Describe the mental status and physical findings of alcohol intoxication. |
| 13. |
Describe the interpersonal and pharmacologic interventions for alcohol withdrawal. |
| 14. |
Describe the management of alcohol withdrawal syndrome. |
| 15. |
Discuss medicolegal considerations associated with alcoholic emergencies. |
| 16. |
Describe the triage approach to drug abuse. |
| 17. |
Describe the pharmacologic intervention for opioid withdrawal. Chapter 6: Schizophrenia and Mania |
| 18. |
Describe the mental status findings of schizophrenia and mania and provide a differential diagnosis. |
| 19. |
List medical disorders that mimic schizophrenia and mania. |
| 20. |
Describe the interpersonal interventions for a paranoid and catatonic patient. |
| 21. |
Provide a differential diagnosis of violent patients. |
| 22. |
Describe the interpersonal interventions a clinician should use when faced with a violent patient. |
| 23. |
Discuss legal considerations involved in informed consent, refusal of treatment, dangerousness, and duty to warn or protect intended victims. " |
| 24. |
Classify self-destructive patients into three categories. |
| 25. |
Identify clinical indicators of high suicide risk. |
| 26. |
List major depressive syndromes. |
| 27. |
Describe the interpersonal intervention for a nonpsychotic patient with depression. |
| 28. |
Describe the management of grief of survivors of a patient who has died unexpectedly |
| 29. |
List medical disorders associated with anxiety. |
| 30. |
Make a differential diagnosis of panic disorder. |
| 31. |
Make a classification of phobias. |
| 32. |
Identify phobias, obsessions, compulsions, and P.T.S.D., and provide interpersonal, pharmacologic and educational interventions. |
| 33. |
Describe usual staff reactions to domestic abuse. |
| 34. |
Identify spousal abuse in patients. |
| 35. |
Describe the interpersonal interventions in cases of elder abuse. |
| 36. |
Describe the protocol for examining a rape victim. |
| 37. |
List signs of physical and sexual abuse. |
| 38. |
Describe the runaway behavior of boys and girls. |
| 39. |
Identify risk factors for child abuse. Chapter 14: Geriatric Emergencies |
| 40. |
Perform mental status and physical findings on a patient with dementia. |
| 41. |
Provide interpersonal intervention to the delirious elderly patient. |
| 42. |
Identify and differentiate among the most common types of psychoses in the elderly population. |
| 43. |
Describe the management of a suspected drug abuser in the emergency psychiatric setting. |
| 44. |
Identify malingerers. |
| 45. |
Discuss the general, neurologic and other effects of antipsy-chotic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant, and antianxiefy drugs. |