Risk Factors Genes — parents may pass down some personality traits to their children.
Sometimes these traits are called your temperament. Environment — This includes
your surroundings, events that have happened to the client and around them, and
relationships and patterns of interactions with family members and others.
Medications
1. When a client reports that lithium causes an upset stomach, the nurse should make
which suggestion is associated with taking the medication?
A. With meals
B. With an antacid
C. 30 minutes before meals
D. 2 hours after meals
2. A client, who has been prescribed clozapine 6 weeks ago, reports flulike
symptoms including a fever and a very sore throat, the nurse should initiate
which nursing intervention?
A. Suggest that the client take something for the fever and get extra rest.
B. Advise the physician that the client should be admitted to the hospital.
C. Arrange for the client to have blood drawn for a white blood cell count.
D. Consider recommending a change of antipsychotic medication.
3. Which medication is FDA approved for treatment of anxiety in children?
A. Sertraline
B. Fluoxetine
C. Clomipramine
D. Duloxetine
4. A client being treated for depression has taken sertraline daily for a year. The
client calls the clinic nurse and says, “I stopped taking my antidepressant 2 days
ago. Now I am having nausea, nervous feelings, and I can’t sleep.” The nurse will
advise the client to: (takes 2 weeks to work)
A. “Go to the nearest emergency department immediately.”
B. “Do not to be alarmed. Take two aspirin and drink plenty of fluids.”
C. “Take a dose of your antidepressant now and come to the clinic to see the health care
provider.”
D. “Resume taking your antidepressants for 2 more weeks and then discontinue them
again.”
5. A nurse instructs a client taking a medication that inhibits the action of
