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NSB204 Exam Questions With Correct
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What is mental health? - answer✔a person's condition with regard to their psychological and
emotional well-being.
What is mental illness? - answer✔It is medical conditions that affect a person's thinking,
feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily functioning.
Causes of mental illness - answer✔Causes of mental illnesses can include inherited traits,
environmental exposures before birth, brain chemistry, stressful events, negative thoughts,
drugs and alcohol
Protective factors of mental illness - answer✔Some protective factors of mental illnesses are
resilience, socio-economic status, social determinants of health and illness, and a sense of
belonging
What is stigma? - answer✔extreme disapproval of a person based on a behavior or quality of
that person
Stigma and Mental Health - answer✔Stigma in mental health are negative attitudes or
behaviors towards a person with mental illness which is based on the belief that they possess
negative traits.
Where does stigma come from? - answer✔Stigma comes from History, politics, societal beliefs,
ignorance of facts, past experiences, and social media.
Impact of stigma - answer✔Reduced options for employment, accommodation and socialising.
Low self esteem and reluctant to disclose symptoms/postpone seeking help
Mental health nurses role - answer✔Includes knowledge and skills in therapeutic relationships,
empathy, communication, self-awareness, cultural safety, recovery orientated practices,
compassion, models of care to support practice and patient care
What is cultural safety - answer✔a process that is family/patient focused that aims to promote
equity; including cultural awareness, sensitivity and competence. it examines root causes of
health inequities and what can be done to eliminate them.
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Culturally safe practice - answer✔Is the going critical reflection of health practitioners
knowledge, skills, attitudes, practicing behaviour and power differentials in delivering safe,
accessible and responsive healthcare free of racism
How to ensure culturally safe and respectful practice - answer✔1. Acknowledge Historical
Impact:
Recognize the impact of colonization and systemic racism on health.
2. Address Personal Bias:
Confront personal biases and provide unbiased, holistic care.
3. Prioritize Self-Determination:
Support individual, family, and community-driven healthcare decisions.
4. Create a Safe Environment:
Foster a safe, respectful workplace for all, including Indigenous communities and colleagues.
Person centred care - answer✔focuses on the individual's personal needs, wants, desires and
goals so that they become central to the care and nursing process
Person centred care model - answer✔Working with patients beliefs and value.
Engaging authentically.
Sharing decision making.
Being sympathetically present.
Providing holistic care.
What is recovery? - answer✔a process of change through which individuals improve their
health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential
Why personal recovery is important - answer✔Identifies the individual goals of treatment and
recovery, tailors treatment and support to unique needs and empowers individuals and their
families
What is Recovery orientated care - answer✔Embraces recovery and wellbeing.
Promotes self-determination and self-management.
Encourages personal responsibility.
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Empowers goal-setting.
Aids family understanding.
Nurses role in Mental Health - answer✔Provide 1;1 time m, establish rapport and trust,
collobarate towards preferred patient goals, to hold the hope for recovery and traumas
informed care principles
Trauma informed cared principles - answer✔Safety, choice, empowerment, trustworthiness
and collaboration
Recovery orientated language - answer✔Words should be respectful, non judgemental, clear,
jargon free, and consistent with our body language
Recovery orientated practice aligns to - answer✔Person centred care, cultural safety and
trauma informed care
trauma informed care - answer✔Care that treats a whole person who has been through
trauma. Care providers look at how a person copes when trying to understand their behaviors
and treat the person.
Trauma informed care aims to - answer✔Improve consumer experiences of care and recognise
the impact of trauma on staff. Also examines the way in which care is delivered
What is Trauma informed care framework - answer✔A framework that uses 5 principles and 4
Rs
The 5 principles of trauma informed care framework - answer✔Safety, choice, collaboration,
trust, and empowerment
The 4 R's of trauma informed care framework - answer✔Realise: the widespread impact of
trauma and how it can effect people and groups
Recognise: the signs and symptoms of trauma in an individual
Respond: appropriately through integrating knowledge into practices
Resists re-traumatisation: by recognising that some practices may be re-traumatising and
acknowledging their impact on recovery
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11/16/2024 10:16 AM
NSB204 Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
What is mental health? - answer✔a person's condition with regard to their psychological and
emotional well-being.
What is mental illness? - answer✔It is medical conditions that affect a person's thinking,
feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily functioning.
Causes of mental illness - answer✔Causes of mental illnesses can include inherited traits,
environmental exposures before birth, brain chemistry, stressful events, negative thoughts,
drugs and alcohol
Protective factors of mental illness - answer✔Some protective factors of mental illnesses are
resilience, socio-economic status, social determinants of health and illness, and a sense of
belonging
What is stigma? - answer✔extreme disapproval of a person based on a behavior or quality of
that person
Stigma and Mental Health - answer✔Stigma in mental health are negative attitudes or
behaviors towards a person with mental illness which is based on the belief that they possess
negative traits.
Where does stigma come from? - answer✔Stigma comes from History, politics, societal beliefs,
ignorance of facts, past experiences, and social media.
Impact of stigma - answer✔Reduced options for employment, accommodation and socialising.
Low self esteem and reluctant to disclose symptoms/postpone seeking help
Mental health nurses role - answer✔Includes knowledge and skills in therapeutic relationships,
empathy, communication, self-awareness, cultural safety, recovery orientated practices,
compassion, models of care to support practice and patient care
What is cultural safety - answer✔a process that is family/patient focused that aims to promote
equity; including cultural awareness, sensitivity and competence. it examines root causes of
health inequities and what can be done to eliminate them.
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Culturally safe practice - answer✔Is the going critical reflection of health practitioners
knowledge, skills, attitudes, practicing behaviour and power differentials in delivering safe,
accessible and responsive healthcare free of racism
How to ensure culturally safe and respectful practice - answer✔1. Acknowledge Historical
Impact:
Recognize the impact of colonization and systemic racism on health.
2. Address Personal Bias:
Confront personal biases and provide unbiased, holistic care.
3. Prioritize Self-Determination:
Support individual, family, and community-driven healthcare decisions.
4. Create a Safe Environment:
Foster a safe, respectful workplace for all, including Indigenous communities and colleagues.
Person centred care - answer✔focuses on the individual's personal needs, wants, desires and
goals so that they become central to the care and nursing process
Person centred care model - answer✔Working with patients beliefs and value.
Engaging authentically.
Sharing decision making.
Being sympathetically present.
Providing holistic care.
What is recovery? - answer✔a process of change through which individuals improve their
health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential
Why personal recovery is important - answer✔Identifies the individual goals of treatment and
recovery, tailors treatment and support to unique needs and empowers individuals and their
families
What is Recovery orientated care - answer✔Embraces recovery and wellbeing.
Promotes self-determination and self-management.
Encourages personal responsibility.
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Empowers goal-setting.
Aids family understanding.
Nurses role in Mental Health - answer✔Provide 1;1 time m, establish rapport and trust,
collobarate towards preferred patient goals, to hold the hope for recovery and traumas
informed care principles
Trauma informed cared principles - answer✔Safety, choice, empowerment, trustworthiness
and collaboration
Recovery orientated language - answer✔Words should be respectful, non judgemental, clear,
jargon free, and consistent with our body language
Recovery orientated practice aligns to - answer✔Person centred care, cultural safety and
trauma informed care
trauma informed care - answer✔Care that treats a whole person who has been through
trauma. Care providers look at how a person copes when trying to understand their behaviors
and treat the person.
Trauma informed care aims to - answer✔Improve consumer experiences of care and recognise
the impact of trauma on staff. Also examines the way in which care is delivered
What is Trauma informed care framework - answer✔A framework that uses 5 principles and 4
Rs
The 5 principles of trauma informed care framework - answer✔Safety, choice, collaboration,
trust, and empowerment
The 4 R's of trauma informed care framework - answer✔Realise: the widespread impact of
trauma and how it can effect people and groups
Recognise: the signs and symptoms of trauma in an individual
Respond: appropriately through integrating knowledge into practices
Resists re-traumatisation: by recognising that some practices may be re-traumatising and
acknowledging their impact on recovery
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