N330 Mental Health Exam Questions with Correct
Answers
Can infection cause dementia? Correct Answer ✓✓ Yes
What do you say if a dementia patient asks the home health aide to leave
the door unlocked for her dead husband? Correct Answer ✓✓ It must be
hard not having him around. It almost feels as if he is here with you
Does memory come back for patients with dementia? Correct Answer
✓✓ no
What is one of the goals for a patient with dementia? Correct Answer
✓✓ Keep them as independent as possible
What is the nurse role with ECT Correct Answer ✓✓ NPO after
midnight, side effects of anesthesia
Tricyclics Correct Answer ✓✓ Check ECG check for toxicity
What do we teach the patients about taking medications? Correct
Answer ✓✓ Safety First
What do you do for a patient who thinks staff is trying to poison his
food? Correct Answer ✓✓ give the prepackaged food to paranoid
patient
, Lithium Correct Answer ✓✓ Has to get blood drawn
When is a depressed man with suicidal ideation and plan to hang himself
most likely to do? Correct Answer ✓✓ When he is upset that family
goes on vacation without him
Patient has aggressive past, is pacing and keeps pointing at male staff
Correct Answer ✓✓ Say something about how the patient seems like
something is bothering them and ask what it is
May be less depressed once on meds, may do what? Correct Answer
✓✓ Have energy to kill self so they need to be watched
What does a BAL of above 0.40 tell us? remember that 0.20 us
"unconscious" Correct Answer ✓✓ It tells us this person has a tolerance
to alcohol
What is given first for a patient going through alcohol withdrawal?
Correct Answer ✓✓ Ativan
What are some neurologic complications with chronic alcohol abuse?
Correct Answer ✓✓ Confabulations which are lies
Answers
Can infection cause dementia? Correct Answer ✓✓ Yes
What do you say if a dementia patient asks the home health aide to leave
the door unlocked for her dead husband? Correct Answer ✓✓ It must be
hard not having him around. It almost feels as if he is here with you
Does memory come back for patients with dementia? Correct Answer
✓✓ no
What is one of the goals for a patient with dementia? Correct Answer
✓✓ Keep them as independent as possible
What is the nurse role with ECT Correct Answer ✓✓ NPO after
midnight, side effects of anesthesia
Tricyclics Correct Answer ✓✓ Check ECG check for toxicity
What do we teach the patients about taking medications? Correct
Answer ✓✓ Safety First
What do you do for a patient who thinks staff is trying to poison his
food? Correct Answer ✓✓ give the prepackaged food to paranoid
patient
, Lithium Correct Answer ✓✓ Has to get blood drawn
When is a depressed man with suicidal ideation and plan to hang himself
most likely to do? Correct Answer ✓✓ When he is upset that family
goes on vacation without him
Patient has aggressive past, is pacing and keeps pointing at male staff
Correct Answer ✓✓ Say something about how the patient seems like
something is bothering them and ask what it is
May be less depressed once on meds, may do what? Correct Answer
✓✓ Have energy to kill self so they need to be watched
What does a BAL of above 0.40 tell us? remember that 0.20 us
"unconscious" Correct Answer ✓✓ It tells us this person has a tolerance
to alcohol
What is given first for a patient going through alcohol withdrawal?
Correct Answer ✓✓ Ativan
What are some neurologic complications with chronic alcohol abuse?
Correct Answer ✓✓ Confabulations which are lies
