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1. dilemma regarding antipsychotics

   evanpatten replied to evanpatten's topic in Psychiatric

   Thank you all for your responses. A few things I want to respond to; first, that article mentioned that atypical antipsychotics work in the same way as the first generation ones, by blocking D2 dopamine receptors which could ultimately lead to greate...

2. dilemma regarding antipsychotics

   evanpatten replied to evanpatten's topic in Psychiatric

   Thank you both for your responses! I definitely agree that something can work great for one person and not at all for another, especially with psych disorders, unfortunately. I know from personal experience that it's a lot of trial and error. I thin...

3. dilemma regarding antipsychotics

   evanpatten posted a topic in Psychiatric

   Hi everyone, I'm a new grad (LVN) who would like to go into psych nursing. I'm really struggling, however, with the idea of antipsychotic med. maintenance after reading research that indicates that while effective for the short-term, the use of antip...