Exam 4: NSG 3450 / NSG3450 (Latest 2026 / 2027) Nursing Practice – Mental Health | 100% Correct Questions & Answers - Galen

Exam 4: NSG 3450 / NSG3450

Nursing Practice – Mental Health


(Latest )


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Question:
A false belief or judgment about reality, held despite evidence to the
contrary.
Answer:
Delusions




Question:
Most extreme form; jumble of words meaningless to a listener
Answer:
Word Salad

,Question:
Words chosen based on sound
Answer:
Clang Association




Question:
Meaning for the patient only
Answer:
Neologisms




Question:
Pathological repetition of another's words
Answer:
Echolalia

,Question:
The absence of essential human qualities: Anhedonia, Avolition, Asociality,
Affective blunting, Apathy, Alogia.


Affect: outward expression of a person's internal emotional state (flat,
blunted, inappropriate, bizarre.
Answer:
Negative Symptoms




Question:
- Concrete thinking
- Impaired memory
- Impaired information processing
- Impaired executive functioning
Answer:
Cognitive Symptoms

, Question:
** Assessment for depression is crucial


- May herald impending relapse
- Increases substance abuse
- Increases suicide risk
- Further impairs functioning
Answer:
Affective Symptoms




Question:
- Manage stress and stimulation
- Use other sounds to compete with the auditory stimuli
- Reality Testing (what is real and what is not)
- Engage in an activity
- Talk
- Contact others, support systems
- Plan to cope


This is included in the teaching for what patient?
Answer:
The hallucinating patient