NUR2459 Mental Health UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORECT Answers
"Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship - CORRECT ANSWER Summarizing
the goals and objectives achieved, discussing ways to incorporate new coping strategies,
reviewing situations that occurred and exchanging memories
"Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship - CORRECT ANSWER Maintaining the
relationship, gathering data, promoting problem solving skills and self-esteem, facilitate
discharge, overcome resistance, evaluate problems and goals
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - CORRECT ANSWER Theory behind this therapy:
Everyone has schemata-unique assumptions about self, others, and the world around them
What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy? - CORRECT ANSWER A health
environment, combined with a healthy social structure within a inpatient or outpatient setting
supporting and treating those with mental illness
Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship - CORRECT
ANSWER Focus on the patient's problems and concerns encouraging them to find their own
situations, not "being a friend" or meeting the needs of the nurse
Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques - CORRECT
ANSWER Reassuring, giving advice, giving approval, disapproving, changing the subject
What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique? - CORRECT ANSWER "Tell
me more about that"
"Would you describe it more fully?"
What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques? - CORRECT
ANSWER Paraphrasing, summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
, What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication technique? - CORRECT
ANSWER "Don't worry everything will be alright", "You'll be fine". "There's nothing to
worry about"
What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique - CORRECT
ANSWER Patient: "I wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you mean."
What is affect? - CORRECT ANSWER Client's emotional display of mood being experienced
What are levels of consciousness? - CORRECT ANSWER Alert, Lethargic, Stuporous
What is "flight of ideas"? - CORRECT ANSWER Rapid changes from one thought to another
related thought
What is perseveration? - CORRECT ANSWER Repeating the same words in response to
different questions
What is judgement? - CORRECT ANSWER Ability to evaluate choices and make appropriate
decisions
What is autonomy? - CORRECT ANSWER Respecting the rights of others to make their own
decisions (Big choices: Do you want CPR? Surgery?. Little choices: What would you like to take
your medicine with?) =CHOICE/SELF DETERMINATION
What are the reasons to use seclusion? - CORRECT ANSWER Being a harm to self or others,
decreasing sensory overload, patient request
What is a violation of the patient's rights? - CORRECT ANSWER Forcing client to eat, wash,
or dress self
Questions and CORECT Answers
"Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship - CORRECT ANSWER Summarizing
the goals and objectives achieved, discussing ways to incorporate new coping strategies,
reviewing situations that occurred and exchanging memories
"Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship - CORRECT ANSWER Maintaining the
relationship, gathering data, promoting problem solving skills and self-esteem, facilitate
discharge, overcome resistance, evaluate problems and goals
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - CORRECT ANSWER Theory behind this therapy:
Everyone has schemata-unique assumptions about self, others, and the world around them
What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy? - CORRECT ANSWER A health
environment, combined with a healthy social structure within a inpatient or outpatient setting
supporting and treating those with mental illness
Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship - CORRECT
ANSWER Focus on the patient's problems and concerns encouraging them to find their own
situations, not "being a friend" or meeting the needs of the nurse
Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques - CORRECT
ANSWER Reassuring, giving advice, giving approval, disapproving, changing the subject
What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique? - CORRECT ANSWER "Tell
me more about that"
"Would you describe it more fully?"
What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques? - CORRECT
ANSWER Paraphrasing, summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
, What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication technique? - CORRECT
ANSWER "Don't worry everything will be alright", "You'll be fine". "There's nothing to
worry about"
What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique - CORRECT
ANSWER Patient: "I wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you mean."
What is affect? - CORRECT ANSWER Client's emotional display of mood being experienced
What are levels of consciousness? - CORRECT ANSWER Alert, Lethargic, Stuporous
What is "flight of ideas"? - CORRECT ANSWER Rapid changes from one thought to another
related thought
What is perseveration? - CORRECT ANSWER Repeating the same words in response to
different questions
What is judgement? - CORRECT ANSWER Ability to evaluate choices and make appropriate
decisions
What is autonomy? - CORRECT ANSWER Respecting the rights of others to make their own
decisions (Big choices: Do you want CPR? Surgery?. Little choices: What would you like to take
your medicine with?) =CHOICE/SELF DETERMINATION
What are the reasons to use seclusion? - CORRECT ANSWER Being a harm to self or others,
decreasing sensory overload, patient request
What is a violation of the patient's rights? - CORRECT ANSWER Forcing client to eat, wash,
or dress self
