A 40-year-old patient has a long history of job hopping and conflicts with work superiors. She tells you that "it is hard to please people" and that "things would be better if people were not critical of me." Based on what she tells you, why is she representative of patients with a personality disorder?

A patient is prescribed lorazepam for anxiety. The nurse should include which possible side effect in the patient's education?

A patient is prescribed imipramine for the treatment of depression. The nurse should educate the patient about which potentially lethal side effect?

A patient is prescribed amitriptyline for the treatment of depression. The nurse educates the patient about what common side effect?

A patient receiving ziprasidone for schizophrenia has parkinson-like symptoms. To decrease the parkinson-like side effects, the nurse should advocate for which of the following medications?

Over the course of several weeks, a patient with a somatic symptom disorder has several conferences with the psychiatrist. She becomes increasingly anxious and her physical symptoms intensify. Which of the following explains the patient's symptoms?

The nurse is caring for a patient with a history of malingering. The nurse understands that malingering differs from somatic symptom disorders in that the former: