A 77-year-old male patient with a documented history of dementia to initial psychiatric evaluation, complaining of visual hallucinations. His conservator reports increased aggression. Which of the following treatment recommendations are true and relevant for this patient? a. SSRIs/SNRIs are recommended as first line psychotropic treatment for aggression in patients with dementia b. Benzodiazepines with a […]

A 48-year-old woman is reporting difficulty sustaining sleep without interruptions. She is currently taking over-the-counter melatonin, and she denies difficulty with sleep onset. Because her middle insomnia has persisted for 3 months and is nonspecific to a trigger, she has decided to address her insomnia with psychotropics. Which of the following is true of melatonin? […]

A 42-year-old Caucasian female with a history of major depressive disorder presents to the PMHNP with a chief complaint of “I am feeling fine, I just haven’t been able to sleep over the past 2 months.” The patient reports she has been frequently waking in the middle of the night for hours. She has been […]

Written Assignment 1  In the corporate world, the shareholders are the owners and they hire managers to run the firm. How does the fact that while the military is much more hierarchical than the corporate world and the people making the management decisions are also different from those whose goals often need to be met? […]

Written Assignment 1  In the corporate world, the shareholders are the owners and they hire managers to run the firm. How does the fact that while the military is much more hierarchical than the corporate world and the people making the management decisions are also different from those whose goals often need to be met? […]

  Based on Ch. 3,Q- explain why regulating sex work in India was important to the British colonial project ? INSTRUCTION SINGLE SPACED MAKE IT RELEVANT AND WRITE 4-5 QUOTES FROM THE CHAPTER THAT ARE CONNECTED TO THE TOPIC AND INCLUDE THE AUTHORS NAME AND PAGE NUMBER CHAPTER 3 Sex in the Contact Zone They […]

Written Assignment 1  In the corporate world, the shareholders are the owners and they hire managers to run the firm. How does the fact that while the military is much more hierarchical than the corporate world and the people making the management decisions are also different from those whose goals often need to be met? […]

The psychiatric nurse practitioner is seeing a 71-year-old African American male, who has been diagnosed with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type (DAT) and is prescribed rivastigmine. The hypothesized efficacy of this medication is primarily due to its: a. Affinity for presynaptic acetylcholine receptors b. Agonism of acetylcholinesterase and downstream decrease of acetylcholine c. Agonism and […]

A 72-year-old patient with benign prostatic hyperplasia causing symptoms of hematuria and dysuria presented for bilateral prostate artery embolization. During the procedure, the right common femoral artery was cannulated along with the contralateral left internal iliac artery and multiple attempts were made to cannulate the left prostate artery. Despite the effort, the left prostate artery […]

60 yo. male with PMHx of recurrent diverticulitis and PSHx of appendectomy for perforated appendicitis w c/o diffuse abdominal pain worse in the lower abdomen beginning Wed night. Pt states Tues night he ate a take-out meal and began to notice some abdominal cramping, then Wednesday morning experienced severe pain with nausea but no emesis. […]