NUR2459 MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
NURSING FINAL 2026 COMPLETE STUDY
GUIDE AND PRACTICE QUESTIONS
◉ What type of environment is a memory care unit? Answer: Locked
unit, 24-7 supervision.
◉ What type of activities do you implement to interact with memory
care patients? Answer: Activities that help them to recall their past-
show old photos, ask questions like what was your first job? where
did you grow up? what was your parents names?
◉ If a patient is not engaged in a group of people sharing photos
what might they be feeling? Answer: Depressed, Isolated, Angry
◉ Can a social worker make a decision about placement for an
elderly person if that person has living family members, a POA?
Answer: No, they cannot make the decision. Nurses must educate
family about decisions.
◉ What does agnosia mean? Answer: Inability to interpret
sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a result of
brain damage.
,◉ Example of something that could cause agnosia? Answer: TBI,
vascular dementia.
◉ Characteristics of delirium. Answer: Rapid in onset, 24-72 hours,
related to infection, NOT common with aging.
◉ What is an important intervention for patients with delirium?
Answer: Reorient them.
◉ What are the primary characteristics of borderline personality
disorder? Answer: splitting people (Pitting a group against each
other). Self-defeating cycle of behavior.
◉ What do you give a patient who has overdosed on PCP? Answer:
Benzodiazepine
◉ Example of a benzodiazpine antidote? Answer: Flumazenil
◉ What type of personality disorder might a patient who still lives at
home at 30 and depends on their mother for everything, have?
Answer: dependent personality disorder
, ◉ Give an example of a positive statement made by a recovering
alcohol that made signal that they are getting better? Answer: I will
identify things that trigger my cravings
◉ Symptoms of patient with suspected opioid abuse/overdose?
Answer: Contracted pupils, increased HR, shallow Resp., increased
temp (but not always).
◉ What do you give a opioid overdose patient? Answer: Narcan
(Naloxone)
◉ S/S of acute alcohol withdrawal? Answer: Everything is increased!
RR, BP, Temp, HR, delerium
◉ Characteristics of histrionic personality disorder? Answer: Mania,
melodramatic, manipulative, emotional attention seeking behavior,
often seductive and flirtatious.
◉ Interventions for histrionic personality disorder patient Answer:
They are very manipulative. Set fine lines, do not offer relationship
advice, avoid situations where they are the center of attention.
◉ Possible fatal complications of patient withdrawing from CNS
stimulant Answer: Respiratory failure, suicide, and depression.
NURSING FINAL 2026 COMPLETE STUDY
GUIDE AND PRACTICE QUESTIONS
◉ What type of environment is a memory care unit? Answer: Locked
unit, 24-7 supervision.
◉ What type of activities do you implement to interact with memory
care patients? Answer: Activities that help them to recall their past-
show old photos, ask questions like what was your first job? where
did you grow up? what was your parents names?
◉ If a patient is not engaged in a group of people sharing photos
what might they be feeling? Answer: Depressed, Isolated, Angry
◉ Can a social worker make a decision about placement for an
elderly person if that person has living family members, a POA?
Answer: No, they cannot make the decision. Nurses must educate
family about decisions.
◉ What does agnosia mean? Answer: Inability to interpret
sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a result of
brain damage.
,◉ Example of something that could cause agnosia? Answer: TBI,
vascular dementia.
◉ Characteristics of delirium. Answer: Rapid in onset, 24-72 hours,
related to infection, NOT common with aging.
◉ What is an important intervention for patients with delirium?
Answer: Reorient them.
◉ What are the primary characteristics of borderline personality
disorder? Answer: splitting people (Pitting a group against each
other). Self-defeating cycle of behavior.
◉ What do you give a patient who has overdosed on PCP? Answer:
Benzodiazepine
◉ Example of a benzodiazpine antidote? Answer: Flumazenil
◉ What type of personality disorder might a patient who still lives at
home at 30 and depends on their mother for everything, have?
Answer: dependent personality disorder
, ◉ Give an example of a positive statement made by a recovering
alcohol that made signal that they are getting better? Answer: I will
identify things that trigger my cravings
◉ Symptoms of patient with suspected opioid abuse/overdose?
Answer: Contracted pupils, increased HR, shallow Resp., increased
temp (but not always).
◉ What do you give a opioid overdose patient? Answer: Narcan
(Naloxone)
◉ S/S of acute alcohol withdrawal? Answer: Everything is increased!
RR, BP, Temp, HR, delerium
◉ Characteristics of histrionic personality disorder? Answer: Mania,
melodramatic, manipulative, emotional attention seeking behavior,
often seductive and flirtatious.
◉ Interventions for histrionic personality disorder patient Answer:
They are very manipulative. Set fine lines, do not offer relationship
advice, avoid situations where they are the center of attention.
◉ Possible fatal complications of patient withdrawing from CNS
stimulant Answer: Respiratory failure, suicide, and depression.
