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NUR 180 - EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
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What does orienting a patient help with? - ANS ✓Decreases anxiety
What would be included in the interviewing process for mental health? -
ANS ✓Provide quiet place
Delegate if needed
Daily routines
Listen and observe nonverbal communication
Use therapeutic communication
If a patient is being difficult and uncooperative what are our interventions?
- ANS ✓Talk and find it out what's going on
What are some principles of caring for patients? - ANS ✓Address as Mr/Mrs
Respect them
NEVER judge
Show interest when conversations
Advocacy - ANS ✓Looking out for the patients best interest
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autonomy - ANS ✓Allow patient to do whatever they can for themselves
Ex: patients will check to see what time his group therapy is
Non-therapeutic communication includes - ANS ✓Failure to
probe/investigate
Failure to listen
Parroting
Challenging statements
acute stress response - ANS ✓Fight or flight
Elevates HR, RR & HR
Affects person emotionally physically and behaviourally
What would we do in a crisis stabilization? - ANS ✓Address immediate needs
& provide emotional support
cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) helps with - ANS ✓Decreases stress and
anxiety
Stuporous - ANS ✓partial unconsciousness
somnolent - ANS ✓sleepy, drowsy
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lethargic - ANS ✓acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner
What interferes with a patients coping? - ANS ✓Culture
Family dynamics
Abdications
Cognition
Stress
OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) - ANS ✓an anxiety disorder
characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions
Compulsion itself is an act / ritual
(Repeatedly opening and closing the door)
What nursing interventions would we do with someone who has OCD? - ANS
✓Set limits
Control group sessions
Talk to patient privately
Cause of violence in a community - ANS ✓Poverty
Lack of employment
Frustration
Lack of support system
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Bullying can cause - ANS ✓Poor self esteem
Risk for suicide
Anxiety
domestic violence - ANS ✓the use of force to control and maintain power over a
spouse in the home
For someone who is a DV patient, what are our interventions as a nurse? -
ANS ✓Provide emotional support
Don't leave the patient alone
Reassure patient they are safe
Interview the patient alone
Only call someone if person agrees
intimate partner violence (IPV) - ANS ✓physical, sexual, or psychological harm
by a current or former partner or spouse
Can cause most severe consequences
Levels of Suicide - ANS ✓● Suicidal Ideation:
Thinking about suicide.
● Suicidal Threat:
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