MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NURSING
EXAM 3 PROFESSIONAL EXAMPREP 2026
TESTED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS FULL
REVIEW GRADED A+
◉ Recovering from a mental illness is viewed as a personal journey
of healing. What is the goal of recovery? Answer: Is to empower
those with mental illness to find meaning and satisfaction in their
lives, realize personal potential, and function at their optimal level of
independence.
◉ Describe the difference between the nurse-patient relationship
and the nurse-patient partnership: Answer: nurse-patient
relationship suggests an unequal status with the nurse/health care
worker as the person in authority. The nurse-patient partnership is
more in line with the emphasis on "relationships" in the recovery
model.
◉ In a survey on caring in 1998, emerged 3 themes. Explain all 3:
Answer: Caring is evidenced by empathic understanding, actions,
and patience on another's behalf. Caring for one another by actions,
words, and being there leads to happiness and touches the heart.
Caring is giving of self while preserving the importance of self.
, ◉ What is a patient advocate? And what is not? Answer: Someone
who speaks up for another's cause, who helps others by defending
and comforting them, especially when the other person lacks
knowledge, skills, ability, or status to speak for himself/herself. It is
NOT a legal role but rather an ethical one.
◉ What is the DSM-5? Answer: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders. 5th addition was released in May 2013.
◉ What is mental illness? Answer: It is medical conditions that affect
a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and
daily functioning. It includes flawed biological, psychological, social,
and cultural processes.
◉ Euthymia Answer: A normal mood state.
◉ Looseness of association Answer: A pattern of thinking that is
haphazard, illogical, and confused, and in which connections in
thought are interrupted; it is seen primarily in schizophrenic
disorders.
◉ Anorexia Answer: A medical term that signifies a loss of appetite.
EXAM 3 PROFESSIONAL EXAMPREP 2026
TESTED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS FULL
REVIEW GRADED A+
◉ Recovering from a mental illness is viewed as a personal journey
of healing. What is the goal of recovery? Answer: Is to empower
those with mental illness to find meaning and satisfaction in their
lives, realize personal potential, and function at their optimal level of
independence.
◉ Describe the difference between the nurse-patient relationship
and the nurse-patient partnership: Answer: nurse-patient
relationship suggests an unequal status with the nurse/health care
worker as the person in authority. The nurse-patient partnership is
more in line with the emphasis on "relationships" in the recovery
model.
◉ In a survey on caring in 1998, emerged 3 themes. Explain all 3:
Answer: Caring is evidenced by empathic understanding, actions,
and patience on another's behalf. Caring for one another by actions,
words, and being there leads to happiness and touches the heart.
Caring is giving of self while preserving the importance of self.
, ◉ What is a patient advocate? And what is not? Answer: Someone
who speaks up for another's cause, who helps others by defending
and comforting them, especially when the other person lacks
knowledge, skills, ability, or status to speak for himself/herself. It is
NOT a legal role but rather an ethical one.
◉ What is the DSM-5? Answer: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders. 5th addition was released in May 2013.
◉ What is mental illness? Answer: It is medical conditions that affect
a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and
daily functioning. It includes flawed biological, psychological, social,
and cultural processes.
◉ Euthymia Answer: A normal mood state.
◉ Looseness of association Answer: A pattern of thinking that is
haphazard, illogical, and confused, and in which connections in
thought are interrupted; it is seen primarily in schizophrenic
disorders.
◉ Anorexia Answer: A medical term that signifies a loss of appetite.
