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Maryville University NURS661 Exam 3 – Q’s & A’s
Maryville University NURS661 Exam 3 – Q’s & A’s
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Maryville University NURS661 Exam 3 – Q’s & A’sWhat area of the brain is most often linked to violence among patients?
✔️Ans -Prefrontal- cortex
Which personality disorder is often associated with self-harming behavior?
✔️Ans -BPD
Know the risk factors associated with suicide among patients ✔️Ans -
Family history of suicide
Family history of child maltreatment
Previous suicide attempt(s)
History of mental disorders, particularly clinical depression
History of alcohol and substance abuse
Feelings of hopelessness
Impulsive or aggressive tendencies
Cultural and religious beliefs (e.g., belief that suicide is noble resolution of a
personal dilemma)
Local epidemics of suicide
Isolation, a feeling of being cut off from other people
Barriers to accessing mental health treatment
Loss (relational, social, work, or financial)
Physical illness
Easy access to lethal methods
Unwillingness to seek help because of the stigma attached to mental health
and substance abuse disorders or to suicidal thoughts
Single, living alone
Be able to identify protective factors among patients at risk for suicide
✔️Ans -Effective clinical care for mental, physical, and substance abuse
disorders
Easy access to a variety of clinical interventions and support for help seeking
Family and community support (connectedness)
Support from ongoing medical and mental health care relationships
Skills in problem solving, conflict resolution, and nonviolent ways of handling
disputes
Cultural and religious beliefs that discourage suicide and support instincts for
self-preservation
, difference between suicidal gestures and self mutilation ✔️Ans -**INTENT
**suicide: experiencing stressors for which they see no escape from, and
choose to end life- feel worthless and hopeless
** the infliction of pain reassures them that they are still alive, which is
especially true if they are experiencing emotional numbness or are feeling
disconnected from the world around them. Additionally, self-injury can result
in a rush as a result of chemical changes in the brain, which can easily become
addictive and highly dangerous.
What is self harm? ✔️Ans -Self-harm is a form of mutilation while suicide is
the deliberate act of taking one's own life.
Know which medication has been linked to reducing suicidal ideation among
patients ✔️Ans -Lithium
Understand what lethality means ✔️Ans -the capacity to cause death or
serious harm or damage.
who are the patients with the highest lethality? ✔️Ans -Narcissists
What compulsion is most commonly seen in patients with OCD? ✔️Ans -
Checking 63%
Washing 50%
Counting 36%
Need to ask or confess 31%
Symmetry and precision 28%
Hoarding 18%
What is an obsession? ✔️Ans -intrusive thoughts
What is a compulsion? ✔️Ans -irrational behavior performed repeatedly
How would these (obsession and compulsion) present in a case scenario
(Hoarding) ✔️Ans -Characterized by acquiring and not discarding things
deemed to be of little to no value; was originally considered a subtype of OCD,
but now considered its own diagnostic entity
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