Complete Mental Health Guide 2 Latest Version(Updated) with Verified solutions
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Ati mental health
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Ati Mental Health
You are working with a new graduate nurse who tells you "I don't
understand mental illness" you explain to them that mental illness is
a) Mental conditions that affect mood, thinking, behavior, and the ability
for a person to function
b) a group of psychiatric disorders
c) a series of compli...
Complete Mental Health Guide 2
Latest Version(Updated) with
Verified solutions
You are working with a new graduate nurse who tells you "I don't
understand mental illness" you explain to them that mental illness is
a) Mental conditions that affect mood, thinking, behavior, and the ability
for a person to function
b) a group of psychiatric disorders
c) a series of complicated conditions
d) the same as being crazy - ANSWER A) Mental conditions that affect
mood, thinking, behavior, and the ability for a person to function
Betty Neuman - ANSWER Impact of internal and external stressors on
the equilibrium of the system. Assist patients in discovering and using
stress reducing techniques.
Joyce Travelbee - ANSWER Meaning in the nurse-patient relationship
and the importance of communication. The role of nursing in affirming
the suffering of the patient and in being able to alleviate that suffering
through communication skills.
What is classical psychoanalysis - ANSWER No longer thought to be
valid, and such therapy requires an unrealistically lengthy period of
treatment 3-5 times a week for 6 years.....
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,Transference and countertransference are concepts from this approach.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy - ANSWER Uses dream analysis, free
association, transference and countertransference in following the
psychoanalysis model. However, therapist has greater involvement and
interacts more freely. Focus on the here and now.
GABA has possible implication primarily in which disorder?
a) bipolar
b) alzheimer's
c) anxiety
d) depression - ANSWER c) anxiety
Norepinephrine has possible implications primarily in which disorder?
a) schizophrenia
b) mood disorders
c) anxiety
d) personality disorders - ANSWER b) mood disorders
Hildegard Peplau is known as:
a) mother of psychiatric nursing
b) the first nursing theorist
c) a curanderismo
d) leader of deinstitutionalization - ANSWER a) mother of psychiatric
nursing
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, The nurse understands a client has the following rights regarding
psychiatric mental health care:
a) right to self-medicate
b) right to ongoing participation, beyond that of a person's capabilities
c) right to remain silent and aggressive
d) right to individualized, written treatment or service plan - ANSWER
d) right to individualized written treatment or service plan
A nurse is caring for a female client from Puerto Rico. The nurse is
aware of which of the following cultural considerations for a Hispanic
client:
a) personal matters are never shared with family
b) they do not identify that mental illness is an issue
c) depression is higher for Puerto Ricans living on the US mainland than
those living in Puerto Rico
d) mothers are considered head of the household and primary decision
makers - ANSWER b) they do not identify that mental illness is an
issue
A nurse is caring for a client with depression they have been admitted
for self harming behaviors (cutting) the most appropriate nursing
diagnosis for a client with self harming behaviors is:
a) ineffective communication
b) ineffective coping
c) risk for infection
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, d) disturbed sleep patterns - ANSWER b) ineffective coping
What is the primary purpose of the five-axis system used in the fourth
edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th
edition, text revision (DSM-IV-TR)?
a) to improve prognostic ability
b) the give a comprehensive picture of client functioning
c) to provide a decision-making algorithm for pharmacologic treatment
d) to separate the various mental disorders into five related categories -
ANSWER b) to give a comprehensive picture of client functioning
A nurse is participating in the care of a client whose treatment involves
application of the principles of psychopharmacotherapy. As a result, the
client's treatment will prioritize which of the following?
a) altering the process of gene expression within neurons
b) control of the environmental factors that are known to underlie mental
illness
c) altering the molecular structure of the neuronal nucleus
d) blocking or enhancing the effects of specific neurotransmitters -
ANSWER d) blocking or enhancing the effects of specific
neurotransmitters
While conducting an interview with a 14-year-old mental health client,
he tells you that he has a plan to kill students at his school because they
will not stop picking on him. He says, I have everything I need all set
up. What would be your responsibility after hearing this statement?
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