Mental Health Nursing Exam 2 - Jersey College QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

Mental Health Nursing Exam 2 - Jersey |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




College QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS |\ |\ |\




the stereotyped repetition of words or phrases that may or may not
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have meaning to the listener - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔verbigeration


ideas that are related to one another based on sound or rhyming
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rather than meaning. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Clang
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associations


words invented by the client. - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Neologisms


a combination of jumbled words and phrases that are disconnected
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or incoherent and make no sense to the listener. - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔A word salad is: |\ |\ |\ |\




Injustice that must be remedied by legal action - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Which is the central focus of persecutory delusions?
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oculogyric crisis. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A nurse is caring for a
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hospitalized client who has schizophrenia. The client has been
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,taking antipsychotic medications for 1 week when the nurse
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observes that the client's eyes are fixed on the ceiling. The nurse
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interprets this finding as: |\ |\ |\




suicide - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔When developing the plan of
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care for a client with schizophrenia who is in the acute phase of
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illness, the nurse understands that the client is at high risk for
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what?


Clients are often misdiagnosed as having schizophrenia. -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A psychiatric-mental health nurse is
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conducting a review class for a group of colleagues about
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schizoaffective disorder. The nurse determines that the class was |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



successful based on which description of the condition by the
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group?


Depression - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The nurse is caring for a
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client with somatic symptom disorder. When assessing this client,
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the nurse would be especially alert for symptoms of what?
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The etiology is unknown - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Which
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statement about the etiology of somatic symptom disorder is
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accurate?

, "It means that stress and/or emotions are causing your symptoms." -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The client asks the nurse, "What does
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having psychosomatic symptoms mean?" What is the nurse's best
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reply?


Conversion disorder - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Which disorder is
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characterized by unexplained, sudden deficits in sensory or motor
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function?


-The client is preoccupied with the self.
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|\ -The client reports having visited many physicians or hospitals.
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-The client is reluctant to participate in psychiatric treatment
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programs. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A nurse is assessing a client
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with hypochondriasis. Which signs could the nurse expect to find in
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the client? Select all that apply.
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Manifestation of physical symptoms from psychological distress -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Which best describes the concept of
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somatization?


Malingering - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Which occurs when an
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individual intentionally produces illness symptoms to avoid work?
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