NUR 114:Mental Health Exam
NUR 114: The Nursing Process Reviewed
2026 Exam |NUR 114: HESI Review
Exam |NUR 114:Inflammation
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Questions with Correct Accurate Answers
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Mild anxiety - ANSWER✔️"Test anxiety"
- Pretty beneficial
- Heightened sense of sight and sound
- Increased perceptual field
- Increased ability to grasp information
- May feel restless and irritable
Moderate anxiety - ANSWER✔️Happens when asked to speak publicly
- Still able to solve problems
- Focused on immediate concern only so you will have diminished sense of sight
and sound and perceptual field
- Increased HR, sweat, upset stomach, mild tremors
Severe anxiety - ANSWER✔️Feeling like something bad is going to happen (may
happen prior to surgery)
- Significantly narrowed perceptual field
- Focus on minute or scattered details
- No longer able to solve problems
- All behaviors aimed to relieve anxiety
- Increased tremors, HR, BP, hyperventilate
,Panic anxiety - ANSWER✔️Sense of dread, terror, impending doom
- Disorganized and difficulty perceiving reality
- Loss of rational thought
- Cannot communicate or function
- If prolonged, can lead to exhaustion and death
Physical manifestations for mild to moderate anxiety - ANSWER✔️Increased HR
- Restlessness
- Irritability
- Tension
- Selective inattentiveness
- Perspiration
- GI discomfort
- HA
- urinary urgency
- mild tremors
- MAY HAVE POSITIVE IMPACT
Physical manifestations for severe to panic anxiety - ANSWER✔️Feeling that
something bad is about to happen
- Increased tremors
- Increased HR/BP
- Hyperventilation
- Increased urinary urgency
- Disorganized, difficulty perceiving reality, inability to concentrate
- Loss of rational thought
- Unable to communicate or function appropriately
- CAN LEAD TO INJURY TO SELF OR OTHERS (IMPULSIVITY)
Generalized anxiety disorder - ANSWER✔️Unrealistic, excessive, or persistent (6
months or longer) anxiety
- Worries about 2 or more life circumstances
Panic disorders and phobias - ANSWER✔️Discrete periods of intense fear or
discomfort that are unexpected and may be incapacitating
- Irrational fear of an object, situation, activity, and feelings of impending doom
- Chronic condition that has exacerbations and remissions
- Client recognizes the fear is irrational, but is unable to stop/prevent it
,- Acrophobia: fear of heights
- Agoraphobia: fear of crowds or open places
- Claustrophobia: fear of closed-in places
- Hydrophobia: fear of water
- Social anxiety disorder: fear of other people
- Thanatophobia: fear of death - ANSWER✔️Acrophobia
- Agoraphobia
- Claustrophobia
- Hydrophobia
- Social anxiety disorder
- Thanatophobia
Obsessive compulsive disorder - ANSWER✔️disorder characterized by
obsessions and repetitive thoughts
- irresistible impulses to perform an action (compulsions)
- No longer listed with anxiety disorders according to DSM-5
- Interact with client after ritual when anxiety is the lowest
- Don't reinforce or encourage behaviors but also don't degrade or punish -
ANSWER✔️✔️-When should you interact with patients with OCD?
- decrease environmental stimulation by providing a calm environment and staying
with the patient
- encourage patient to talk about their feelings and identifying the cause of their
feelings
- watch for expressions of helplessness or hopelessness which are signs that the
patient may be suicidal - ANSWER✔️✔️-What are nursing interventions for
anxiety?
Anxiolytics
- benzodiazepines
- buspirone (Buspar)
- antidepressants - ANSWER✔️✔️-What are the type of medications used for
anxiety?
Benzodiazepines - ANSWER✔️✔️-CNS depressant that treats short-term anxiety,
induces sedation, muscle relaxer, alcohol/drug withdrawal, seizures
, Examples of Benzodiazepines - ANSWER✔️chlordiazepoxide (Librium)
- diazepam (valium)
- lorazepam (Ativan)
- alprazolam (Xanax)
- causes sedation
- use short-term or as supplemental med (can become addictive)
- taper them when discontinuing to avoid withdrawal - ANSWER✔️✔️-What are
nursing considerations when giving benzodiazepines?
Anxiety - ANSWER Normal response to stress
- Subjective experience (Feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty, or
dread)
- Occurs with a person feels a threat to self, threat may be real or imagined
Mild, moderate, severe, panic - ANSWER -What are the different levels of
anxiety?
Romazicon - ANSWER✔️✔️-What is the antidote for benzodiazepines?
Buspirone (Buspar) - ANSWER✔️✔️-Decreases serotonin and dopamine and
treats anxiety
Takes 3-4 weeks for full effect and can cause drowsiness/dizziness -
ANSWER✔️✔️-What are nursing considerations when giving buspirone for
anxiety?
Antidepressant - ANSWER✔️✔️-drug of choice for long-term treatment of
anxiety
Depression - ANSWER✔️major cause of disability
- accompanies other psychiatric disorders
- incidence is increased with substance abuse and major medical disorders (heart
disease)
- bereavement: normal grieving process that lasts 6 months
- PP depression: happens within 6 months postpartum
NUR 114: The Nursing Process Reviewed
2026 Exam |NUR 114: HESI Review
Exam |NUR 114:Inflammation
Exam||NUR 114: Final Updated Exam|
Questions with Correct Accurate Answers
|Guaranteed Pass |Already Graded A+
Mild anxiety - ANSWER✔️"Test anxiety"
- Pretty beneficial
- Heightened sense of sight and sound
- Increased perceptual field
- Increased ability to grasp information
- May feel restless and irritable
Moderate anxiety - ANSWER✔️Happens when asked to speak publicly
- Still able to solve problems
- Focused on immediate concern only so you will have diminished sense of sight
and sound and perceptual field
- Increased HR, sweat, upset stomach, mild tremors
Severe anxiety - ANSWER✔️Feeling like something bad is going to happen (may
happen prior to surgery)
- Significantly narrowed perceptual field
- Focus on minute or scattered details
- No longer able to solve problems
- All behaviors aimed to relieve anxiety
- Increased tremors, HR, BP, hyperventilate
,Panic anxiety - ANSWER✔️Sense of dread, terror, impending doom
- Disorganized and difficulty perceiving reality
- Loss of rational thought
- Cannot communicate or function
- If prolonged, can lead to exhaustion and death
Physical manifestations for mild to moderate anxiety - ANSWER✔️Increased HR
- Restlessness
- Irritability
- Tension
- Selective inattentiveness
- Perspiration
- GI discomfort
- HA
- urinary urgency
- mild tremors
- MAY HAVE POSITIVE IMPACT
Physical manifestations for severe to panic anxiety - ANSWER✔️Feeling that
something bad is about to happen
- Increased tremors
- Increased HR/BP
- Hyperventilation
- Increased urinary urgency
- Disorganized, difficulty perceiving reality, inability to concentrate
- Loss of rational thought
- Unable to communicate or function appropriately
- CAN LEAD TO INJURY TO SELF OR OTHERS (IMPULSIVITY)
Generalized anxiety disorder - ANSWER✔️Unrealistic, excessive, or persistent (6
months or longer) anxiety
- Worries about 2 or more life circumstances
Panic disorders and phobias - ANSWER✔️Discrete periods of intense fear or
discomfort that are unexpected and may be incapacitating
- Irrational fear of an object, situation, activity, and feelings of impending doom
- Chronic condition that has exacerbations and remissions
- Client recognizes the fear is irrational, but is unable to stop/prevent it
,- Acrophobia: fear of heights
- Agoraphobia: fear of crowds or open places
- Claustrophobia: fear of closed-in places
- Hydrophobia: fear of water
- Social anxiety disorder: fear of other people
- Thanatophobia: fear of death - ANSWER✔️Acrophobia
- Agoraphobia
- Claustrophobia
- Hydrophobia
- Social anxiety disorder
- Thanatophobia
Obsessive compulsive disorder - ANSWER✔️disorder characterized by
obsessions and repetitive thoughts
- irresistible impulses to perform an action (compulsions)
- No longer listed with anxiety disorders according to DSM-5
- Interact with client after ritual when anxiety is the lowest
- Don't reinforce or encourage behaviors but also don't degrade or punish -
ANSWER✔️✔️-When should you interact with patients with OCD?
- decrease environmental stimulation by providing a calm environment and staying
with the patient
- encourage patient to talk about their feelings and identifying the cause of their
feelings
- watch for expressions of helplessness or hopelessness which are signs that the
patient may be suicidal - ANSWER✔️✔️-What are nursing interventions for
anxiety?
Anxiolytics
- benzodiazepines
- buspirone (Buspar)
- antidepressants - ANSWER✔️✔️-What are the type of medications used for
anxiety?
Benzodiazepines - ANSWER✔️✔️-CNS depressant that treats short-term anxiety,
induces sedation, muscle relaxer, alcohol/drug withdrawal, seizures
, Examples of Benzodiazepines - ANSWER✔️chlordiazepoxide (Librium)
- diazepam (valium)
- lorazepam (Ativan)
- alprazolam (Xanax)
- causes sedation
- use short-term or as supplemental med (can become addictive)
- taper them when discontinuing to avoid withdrawal - ANSWER✔️✔️-What are
nursing considerations when giving benzodiazepines?
Anxiety - ANSWER Normal response to stress
- Subjective experience (Feelings of apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty, or
dread)
- Occurs with a person feels a threat to self, threat may be real or imagined
Mild, moderate, severe, panic - ANSWER -What are the different levels of
anxiety?
Romazicon - ANSWER✔️✔️-What is the antidote for benzodiazepines?
Buspirone (Buspar) - ANSWER✔️✔️-Decreases serotonin and dopamine and
treats anxiety
Takes 3-4 weeks for full effect and can cause drowsiness/dizziness -
ANSWER✔️✔️-What are nursing considerations when giving buspirone for
anxiety?
Antidepressant - ANSWER✔️✔️-drug of choice for long-term treatment of
anxiety
Depression - ANSWER✔️major cause of disability
- accompanies other psychiatric disorders
- incidence is increased with substance abuse and major medical disorders (heart
disease)
- bereavement: normal grieving process that lasts 6 months
- PP depression: happens within 6 months postpartum
