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Which of the following is a recommended method of reducing inpatient suicide?

According to the DSM-5, a personality disorder diagnosis needs an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture in two or more of four areas. What are those four areas?

You are seeing a patient that states that the government is plotting against him and that he feels his phone is being recording. Based on this information, the patient is experiencing:

A 48-year-old African female is admitted with profuse sweating, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, vomiting, yawning, muscle aches, restlessness, and insomnia for 1 day. A physical exam reveals a BP of 155/105 mmHg and a temperature of 100°F. The patient is cold with muscle twitches and dilated pupils. She is highly motivated to detoxify. Which medication is the best choice for detoxification?

Which of the following personality disorders is characterized by an excessive need to be cared for by others, leading to submissive and clinging behavior, and excessive fears of separation?

A nursing student is working at a student health center in Illinois. Steve is 19 year old college sophomore who is brought to student health by his roommate Dave who states, “I think my roommate is going crazy. He has been studying for finals and has been up for hours, pacing the room, sweating and every time I tell him to relax he says shut up or he is going to punch me in the face”. Dave is concerned Steve may have taken medication that was prescribed for Dave. To confirm the Dave’s suspicion the PMH-NP orders a Urine Drug Screen (UDS). Which medication is most likely to show up positive on Steve’s UDS?

You are treating a patient with a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder. In today’s office visit, the patient reports that she is so worried about germs and states that she has only left the house twice in the past month and that she will wash her hands up to 30 times a day. You know that this symptom pattern is:

A 35-year-old female patient refuses to eat, drink, or make eye contact with the treating nurse practitioner during a recent office visit. This patient is exhibiting which of the following signs of catatonia?

A 65-year-old woman with a 40-year history of schizophrenia is brought to the ER for an insidious onset of writhing movements of her fingers and tongue. Which of the following conditions is most likely responsible for these movements?

Nikki is a 23-year-old female diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Her symptoms are self-harm by cutting, binge-purge eating, and alcohol and opioid use disorder-moderate. Which of the following therapies would be the best match for her and why?