NR 572 EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE
ACTUAL PAPER 2026 VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
HIGH PERFORMANCE RESULTS
◉ What is insomnia?
Answer: Inability to fall or stay asleep despite tiredness.
◉ First-line intervention for sleep disturbance in hospital?
Answer: Environmental changes like dimming lights and reducing
noise.
◉ Should benzodiazepines be used for sleep in hospitalized clients?
Answer: "No, they increase fall risk and should be avoided."
◉ What is delirium?
Answer: Acute altered mental status with cognitive/perceptual
changes.
◉ Difference between delirium and dementia?
Answer: Delirium is acute with fluctuation; dementia is progressive.
◉ Mnemonic for causes of delirium?
, Answer: "DELIRVM: Drugs, External insults, Lesions, Infections,
Remote cancer effects, Vascular, Metabolic."
◉ When are antipsychotics appropriate for delirium?
Answer: When the patient is at risk of harming themselves or others.
◉ Should benzodiazepines be used to treat delirium?
Answer: "No, unless the patient was already taking them."
◉ What is psychosis?
Answer: Distorted sense of reality involving hallucinations or
delusions.
◉ What is the mesolimbic pathway responsible for in
schizophrenia?
Answer: Positive symptoms like hallucinations.
◉ What is the mesocortical pathway associated with in
schizophrenia?
Answer: Negative symptoms and depression.
◉ Role of partial dopamine agonists?
ACTUAL PAPER 2026 VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
HIGH PERFORMANCE RESULTS
◉ What is insomnia?
Answer: Inability to fall or stay asleep despite tiredness.
◉ First-line intervention for sleep disturbance in hospital?
Answer: Environmental changes like dimming lights and reducing
noise.
◉ Should benzodiazepines be used for sleep in hospitalized clients?
Answer: "No, they increase fall risk and should be avoided."
◉ What is delirium?
Answer: Acute altered mental status with cognitive/perceptual
changes.
◉ Difference between delirium and dementia?
Answer: Delirium is acute with fluctuation; dementia is progressive.
◉ Mnemonic for causes of delirium?
, Answer: "DELIRVM: Drugs, External insults, Lesions, Infections,
Remote cancer effects, Vascular, Metabolic."
◉ When are antipsychotics appropriate for delirium?
Answer: When the patient is at risk of harming themselves or others.
◉ Should benzodiazepines be used to treat delirium?
Answer: "No, unless the patient was already taking them."
◉ What is psychosis?
Answer: Distorted sense of reality involving hallucinations or
delusions.
◉ What is the mesolimbic pathway responsible for in
schizophrenia?
Answer: Positive symptoms like hallucinations.
◉ What is the mesocortical pathway associated with in
schizophrenia?
Answer: Negative symptoms and depression.
◉ Role of partial dopamine agonists?
