Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing: Psychotropic Drugs, ECT, Mood and Psychotic Disorders, Substance Abuse and Dementia

A Port Reitz campus mental health and psychiatric nursing deck. It covers the concepts and principles of mental health and illness, the legal aspects, the personality types from cyclothymic and schizoid to obsessional, and the mental status assessment, then the treatments used in psychiatry - the antipsychotics with their mechanisms, side effects, extrapyramidal effects and contraindications, antidepressants, benzodiazepines, antiparkinsonian drugs, electroconvulsive therapy, and the psychotherapies including group, behaviour and activity therapy. The disorder sections take depression and mania, organic psychosis, delirium and dementia, and substance abuse from alcoholism with the CAGE tool, detoxification and disulfiram to the opioids and rehabilitation, closing on schizophrenia and its aetiology.