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have extrapyramidal side effects, and these sideeffects were often severe. New antipsychotic drugsknown as second-generation or atypical antipsy-chotics were developed and came into use in themid-20th century to treat patients more effectively(Julien, 2008).These second-generation antipsychotic medi-cines are better tolerated and have a reduced riskforextrapyramidalsideeffects.Whileatypicaldrugsare better tolerated, they can increase the potentialfor metabolic changes, which can lead to thedevelopment of diabetes in some individuals.Throughoutthisarticle,first-andsecond-generationantipsychotics are referred to as “typical” and“atypical” antipsychotics, respectively. The purposeof this article is to present a contemporaryperspective related to the nursing care of clientstreated with atypical antipsychotics and who have arisk of developing metabolic change and/or Type 2diabetes. The importance of such a discussion is toprovide both the novice and the experienced nursewith additional knowledge of this current healthissue with which to inform their nursing practice.
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