NUR 114 Mental Health Review Questions and Correct Answers
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NUR 114
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NUR 114
Anxiety - Normal response to stress - Subjective experience (Feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty, or dread) - Occurs with a person feels a threat to self, threat may be real or imagined
Mild, moderate, severe, panic What are the different levels of anxiety?
Mild anxiety - "Test anxi...
NUR 114 Mental Health Review
Questions and Correct Answers
Anxiety ✅- Normal response to stress
- Subjective experience (Feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty, or dread)
- Occurs with a person feels a threat to self, threat may be real or imagined
Mild, moderate, severe, panic ✅What are the different levels of anxiety?
Mild anxiety ✅- "Test anxiety"
- Motivation
- Heightened sense of sight and sound
- Increased perceptual field
- Increased ability to grasp information
- May feel restless and irritable
Moderate anxiety ✅- Happens when asked to speak publicly
- Still able to solve problems
- Focused on immediate concern only so you will have diminished sense of sight and
sound and perceptual field
- Increased HR, sweat, upset stomach, mild tremors
Severe anxiety ✅- Feeling like something bad is going to happen (may happen prior to
surgery)
- Significantly narrowed perceptual field
- Focus on scattered details
- No longer able to solve problems
- All behaviors aimed to relieve anxiety
- Increased tremors, HR, BP, hyperventilate
Panic anxiety ✅- Sense of dread, terror, impending doom
- Disorganized and difficulty perceiving reality
- Loss of rational thought
- Cannot communicate or function
- If prolonged, can lead to exhaustion and death
Physical manifestations for mild to moderate anxiety ✅- Increased HR
- Restlessness
- Irritability
- Tension
- Selective inattentiveness
- Perspiration
- GI discomfort
, - mild tremors
- MAY HAVE POSTIVE IMPACT
Physical manifestations for severe to panic anxiety ✅- Feeling that something bad is
about to happen
- Increased tremors
- Increased HR/BP
- Hyperventilation
- Disorganized, difficulty perceiving reality, inability to concentrate
- Loss of rational thought
- Unable to communicate or function appropriately
- CAN LEAD TO INJURY TO SELF OR OTHERS (IMPULSIVITY)
Generalized anxiety disorder ✅- Unrealistic, excessive, or persistent (6 months or
longer) anxiety
- Worries about 2 or more life circumstances
Panic disorders and phobias ✅- Discrete periods of intense fear or discomfort that are
unexpected and may be incapacitating
- Irrational fear of an object, situation, activity, and feelings of impending doom
- Chronic condition that has exacerbations and remissions
- Client recognizes the fear is irrational, but is unable to stop/prevent it
- Acrophobia: fear of heights
- Agoraphobia: fear of crowds or open places
- Claustrophobia: fear of closed-in places
- Hydrophobia: fear of water
- Social anxiety disorder: fear of other people
- Thanatophobia: fear of death ✅- Acrophobia
- Agoraphobia
- Claustrophobia
- Hydrophobia
- Social anxiety disorder
- Thanatophobia
Obsessive compulsive disorder ✅- disorder characterized by obsessions and repetitive
thoughts
- irresistible impulses to perform an action (compulsions)
- No longer listed with anxiety disorders according to DSM-5
- Interact with client after ritual when anxiety is the lowest
- Don't reinforce or encourage behaviors but also don't degrade or punish ✅When
should you interact with patients with OCD?
- decrease environmental stimulation by providing a calm environment and staying with
the patient
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