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Master NUR 314 Exam 3 with this detailed study guide for mental health and substance abuse nursing. Features verified questions and answers with rationales on schizophrenia, addiction, withdrawal, nursing interventions, and psychopharmacology.

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NUR 314 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
VERIFIED ANSWERS; ALREADY GRADED A




Affective psychological dependence interventions - correct
answer- -Therapeutic use of self
-facilitating expression of feelings-provides hope of recovery
-facilitating self-esteem
-cognitive help ID changes in lifestyle needed


Affective symptoms of schizophrenia - correct answer-
depressive and other mood disorders are important to assess
because:
-Herald an impending relapse
-increase substance abuse
-increase suicide risk
-further impairs functioning


Assessment of substance abuse - correct answer- -plan
early for withdrawal intervention
-ask open ended questions, matter-of-fact
-drug and preference

,-route
-last drink/drug?
-attempts to quit and withdrawal symptoms?
-how much? how often? how long?
-problems drugs have caused?
-family history?


Barbituate withdrawal - correct answer- wean off


Behavioral psychobiological interventions - correct answer-
-role play assertiveness
-reinforce accepting responsibility


Benzodiazepine withdrawal - correct answer- wean off,
or give carbamazepine


Bleuler's signs of Schizophrenia - correct answer- Affect-
flat, blunted, inappropriate, or bizarre
Associative looseness- LOA-disorganized thinking and reasoning
Autism-delusion, hallucinations and neologisms; focused inward

, Ambivalence-pathologic holding of opposing emotions,
attitudes, ideas, wishes


Clinical picture addiction - correct answer- -Addiction:
primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory,
and related circutry
-loss of behavioral control with craving and inability to abstain
-loss of emotional regulation
- loss of the ability to identify problematic behaviors and
relationships
-Alcohol use disorders are medical conditions that doctors can
diagnose when a patient's drinking causes distress or harm
-Intoxication
-to stay low risk, you must keep within both the single-day and
weekly limits
-heavy drinking is defined as consuming:
-for women, more than 1 drink per day on average
-for men, more than 2 drinks per day on average
-WHAT YOU DRINK, HOW MUCH YOU DRINK, WHEN YOU DRINK,
NOT AS IMPORTANT AS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DRINK
-Tolerance
-Withdrawal

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