Psych Nursing Exam 1 CCBC Essex
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Answers
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Social and Intimate Relationships - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-meet the needs of both
individuals
-Built on shared interests, companionship and friendship
Therapeutic Relationships - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-focused on the clients issues,
problems, and concerns
-4 predictable goal directed phases which usually consist of an explicit time frame
-client often learns new material, develops new coping skills or makes a lifestyle
change
-nurse provides a high degree of confidentiality
-client trusts nurse
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,Phases of the Nurse- Client Relationships - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pre-orientation: before
nurse meets client; collects data, determines the best place to meet and provides an
adequate amount of time for the first interaction; determine her own bias
Orientation: The first contact between nurse & client; builds rapport and client
becomes more comfortable and learns to trust the nurse- nurse clarifies her role and
forms a contract, discussing termination and a caring manner
Working: work together to set and accomplish goals; nurse assists in expressing
problems and feelings; helps client work through any resistance and different ways
to adapt/cope
Termination: nurse reviews the goals the client has accomplished and discuss the
clients feelings towards termination; nurse will reliquinsh care back to the client;
they should feel empowered
Self disclosure - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔If the nurse shares personal information,
experiences, attitudes and feelings with a client; self disclose only when it benefits
the client
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, -brief and focused on the issue
-only disclose after trust established
-don;t assume your experiences are the same as the clients
-redirect it back to the client
Transference and Countertransference - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Transference: when a
client unconsciously associates the nurse with someone signification in his/her life
Counter transference: Nurses emotional response to a specific client
Interventions - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Open ended questions
-closed ended questions
-Offering yourself
-General lead
-Clarifying
-Paraphrasing
-Reflecting
-Confronting
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2025/2026 Exam Questions and Answers
| A+ Score Assured
Social and Intimate Relationships - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-meet the needs of both
individuals
-Built on shared interests, companionship and friendship
Therapeutic Relationships - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-focused on the clients issues,
problems, and concerns
-4 predictable goal directed phases which usually consist of an explicit time frame
-client often learns new material, develops new coping skills or makes a lifestyle
change
-nurse provides a high degree of confidentiality
-client trusts nurse
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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,Phases of the Nurse- Client Relationships - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pre-orientation: before
nurse meets client; collects data, determines the best place to meet and provides an
adequate amount of time for the first interaction; determine her own bias
Orientation: The first contact between nurse & client; builds rapport and client
becomes more comfortable and learns to trust the nurse- nurse clarifies her role and
forms a contract, discussing termination and a caring manner
Working: work together to set and accomplish goals; nurse assists in expressing
problems and feelings; helps client work through any resistance and different ways
to adapt/cope
Termination: nurse reviews the goals the client has accomplished and discuss the
clients feelings towards termination; nurse will reliquinsh care back to the client;
they should feel empowered
Self disclosure - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔If the nurse shares personal information,
experiences, attitudes and feelings with a client; self disclose only when it benefits
the client
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, -brief and focused on the issue
-only disclose after trust established
-don;t assume your experiences are the same as the clients
-redirect it back to the client
Transference and Countertransference - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Transference: when a
client unconsciously associates the nurse with someone signification in his/her life
Counter transference: Nurses emotional response to a specific client
Interventions - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Open ended questions
-closed ended questions
-Offering yourself
-General lead
-Clarifying
-Paraphrasing
-Reflecting
-Confronting
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