A 30-year-old patient comes into the acute care hospital for…

A 30-year-old patient comes into the acute care hospital for surgery to fix a broken leg that resulted from a car accident at 2:00am. Upon further investigation, the new nurse finds out they have not been taking their mental health medications in several weeks. The nurse is able to gather that the mental health medications are: valproic acid (Depakote), gabapentin (Neurontin), and olanzapine (Zyprexa). The patient is difficult to get information from as they are speaking with rapid and pressured speech and appear to be quickly moving from one topic of conversation to another (flight of ideas). The new nurse knows that: