NFDN 2007 Mideterm Exam Questions And
Accurate Answers Graded A+
CPMHN - Answer provides a basis for the evaluation of professional, ethical psychiatric
and mental health nursing practice competencies
Organized by domains of practice
MSE - Answer mental status examination
- provides a snap shot of the person, observations at the time of the interview
Mood - Answer - general sustained emotion that colours a persons perception
Affect - Answer - Expression of a mood in a pattern of observable behaviours
= how moods are presented
Blunt Affect - Answer limited range of emotion
Flat Affect - Answer dulled or no emotion
Labile Affect - Answer Intense and frequently shifting emotional extremes
Illusions - Answer Misperception of a real external stimulus
- ex: cords looking like a snake
Hallucination - Answer false sensory perception not associated with real external
stimulus
,- auditory, tactile, visual
- ex: hearing voices
Thought Content - Response What pt is thinking about
- beliefs, ideas, obsessions
Delusion - Response - False, fictitious belief based on faulty inferences about reality
- Not shared by others
- cannot be changed with reasoning
Obsession - Response Perceived thought, feeling or urge
Thought Process - Response Style of thought formation and expression
Neologisms - Response Made-up words by client
Clang Association - Response relating concepts by sound and rhyme
Erotomania - Response belief that a person is in love with them or has relationship with
them
Flight of ideas - Response confused state in which thoughts and speech go in all
directions with no unifying concept
Echolalia - Response Imitation or repetition of what someone says
Verbigeration - Response purposeless repetition of words or phrases
, Sensorium - Answer reflects brain function and intellectual capacity
- LOC
- Orientation
- Memory
- Attention and Concentration
Insight - Answer - realization of the truth about a state of affairs
Judgement - Answer - capacity to form a logical conclusion about a situation
- selecting an action after considering options
Suicide risk assessment includes. - Answer - Suicidal Ideation
- Threats of suicide
- Suicide Attempts
Milieu Therapy-Answer-Environment is designed to meet the pmts emotional and
interpersonal needs
-Validates the clients individuality by having the client feel more safe in a familiar
environment
-Includes surroundings, activities, cultural setting
psychotropic medications-Answer drugs that affect mental processes
-take time to reach a therapeutic level
-lowes dose = given first
-follow up is needed: mange side effects, ensure compliance, make adjustments
Electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) - Answer Electrical current passes through the brain
to produce a generalized seizure
Accurate Answers Graded A+
CPMHN - Answer provides a basis for the evaluation of professional, ethical psychiatric
and mental health nursing practice competencies
Organized by domains of practice
MSE - Answer mental status examination
- provides a snap shot of the person, observations at the time of the interview
Mood - Answer - general sustained emotion that colours a persons perception
Affect - Answer - Expression of a mood in a pattern of observable behaviours
= how moods are presented
Blunt Affect - Answer limited range of emotion
Flat Affect - Answer dulled or no emotion
Labile Affect - Answer Intense and frequently shifting emotional extremes
Illusions - Answer Misperception of a real external stimulus
- ex: cords looking like a snake
Hallucination - Answer false sensory perception not associated with real external
stimulus
,- auditory, tactile, visual
- ex: hearing voices
Thought Content - Response What pt is thinking about
- beliefs, ideas, obsessions
Delusion - Response - False, fictitious belief based on faulty inferences about reality
- Not shared by others
- cannot be changed with reasoning
Obsession - Response Perceived thought, feeling or urge
Thought Process - Response Style of thought formation and expression
Neologisms - Response Made-up words by client
Clang Association - Response relating concepts by sound and rhyme
Erotomania - Response belief that a person is in love with them or has relationship with
them
Flight of ideas - Response confused state in which thoughts and speech go in all
directions with no unifying concept
Echolalia - Response Imitation or repetition of what someone says
Verbigeration - Response purposeless repetition of words or phrases
, Sensorium - Answer reflects brain function and intellectual capacity
- LOC
- Orientation
- Memory
- Attention and Concentration
Insight - Answer - realization of the truth about a state of affairs
Judgement - Answer - capacity to form a logical conclusion about a situation
- selecting an action after considering options
Suicide risk assessment includes. - Answer - Suicidal Ideation
- Threats of suicide
- Suicide Attempts
Milieu Therapy-Answer-Environment is designed to meet the pmts emotional and
interpersonal needs
-Validates the clients individuality by having the client feel more safe in a familiar
environment
-Includes surroundings, activities, cultural setting
psychotropic medications-Answer drugs that affect mental processes
-take time to reach a therapeutic level
-lowes dose = given first
-follow up is needed: mange side effects, ensure compliance, make adjustments
Electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) - Answer Electrical current passes through the brain
to produce a generalized seizure
