Nur 256 exam 3 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Exam 2: NUR256/ NUR 256 (New 2024/ 2025 Update) Mental Health Nursing Guide | Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| A Grade – Galen QUESTION Severe stress is? Identify and intervene to reduce stress by... Answer: unhealthy: Weaken biological resistance to psychiatric disorders. •Promoting a healing environment •Facilitiating successful coping •Developing future coping mechanisms QUESTION •Stressors? •Fight or Flight (aggression or withdrawal)? ...

Exam 4: NUR256 / NUR 256 (Latest 2025/ 2026 Update) Concepts of Mental Health Nursing Guide| Questions & Answers| Grade A| 100% Correct (Verified Solutions)- Galen QUESTION Risk factors for substance abuse Answer: Genetics, dopamine and GABA have been linked, environmental, sociocultural QUESTION Symptoms of opioid use disorder Answer: Psychomotor retardation; drowsiness; slurred speech; altered mood; impaired memory; attention; pupillary constriction QUESTION O...

Exam 2: NUR256 / NUR 256 (Latest 2025/ 2026 Update) Concepts of Mental Health Nursing Review| Questions & Answers| Grade A| 100% Correct (Verified Solutions)- Galen QUESTION What is catatonia Answer: Increased or decreased in the amount of movement QUESTION What is motor agitation Answer: Excited behavior such as running or pacing rapidly, often in response to internal or external stimuli QUESTION What is echopraxia Answer: The mimicking of movements of an...

Exam 3: NUR256/ NUR 256 (New 2023/ 2024 Update) Concepts of Mental Health Nursing Exam Review| Complete Guide with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct- Galen QUESTION dissociative identity disorder will switch Answer: in times of high stress QUESTION ultimate goal with dissociative identity disorder Answer: integrate fragmented personalities into the one personality QUESTION dissociative identity disorder implementation Answer: safety...

Exam 1: NUR256/ NUR 256 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Mental Health Nursing Review | Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A – Galen Q: Peplau's Model of the Nurse-Patient Relationship Answer: The nurse-patient rela- tionship "facilitates forward movement" 4 phases: • Preorientation Phase • Orientation Phase • Working Phase • Termination Phase Q: The communication process Answer: Stimulus - someone has a need to communicate Sender - the person send...

Exam 2: NUR256/ NUR 256 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Mental Health Nursing | Guide with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A – Galen Q: What is a crisis? •Crisis Intervention? •Perception of threat ? •Coping Mechanisms can be? Answer: An event that will or may lead to an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, a group or a society. - a directive, time-limited and goal-directed strategy designed to assist those experiencing a crisis - ...

Exam 1: NUR256/ NUR 256 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Mental Health Nursing | Guide with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A – Galen Q: Aaron Beck's Cognitive Therapy •identified that patients with depression thought differently than those w/o •Negative thinking •Self-Critical thinking Negative thoughts, Negative self-perception, Negative response Q: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs level 1= level 2= level 3= level 4= level 5= Answer: physiologic n...

Exam 4: NUR256/ NUR 256 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Mental Health Nursing | Guide with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A – Galen Q: Bulimia Nervosa define it? pt can have a history of what? this person can display signs and symptoms of? Answer: •Repeated episodes of binge eating followed by inappropriate compensatory behaviors (self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives, diuretics, excessive exercise) anorexia nervosa (25%-33%) depression, problems with in...

Exam 4: NUR256/ NUR 256 (New 2024/ 2025 Update) Mental Health Nursing Guide | Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| A Grade – Galen QUESTION Intimate Partner Violence •this includes? •Might be a? •4 of 5 victims are? •Risk Factors include? Answer: •Physical, violence, rape, stalking, psychological aggres- sion •spouse, boyfriend/girlfriend, dating partner, ongoing sexual partner •women •Male who believes in male dominance and needs to be in charg...

NUR 256 EXAM 4 KEY CONCEPT QUESTIONS (LATEST ) GRADED A+ WITH ANSWERS|VERIFIED EXAM Chapter 17: Assessment of Respiratory Function 1. A client is having the tonsils removed. The client asks the nurse what function the tonsils normally serve. Which of the following would be the most accurate response? “The tonsils help to guard the body from invasion of organisms” 2. The nurse is caring for a client who has just returned to the unit after a colon resection. The client is showing signs...