A nurse observes a patient diagnosed with schizophrenia tapping both feet, smacking both lips, and making contorted faces while speaking to another patient. These behaviors prompt the nurse to suspect the patient is experiencing:
a. neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
b. Parkinson syndrome.
c. tardive dyskinesia.
d. torticollis.
C
Tardive dyskinesia usually occurs with long-term conventional antipsychotic agent treatment and is evidenced by stereotypical involuntary movements (e.g., tongue protrusion, lip smacking, chewing, blinking, grimacing, choreiform movements of the limbs and trunk, foot tapping).
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