NUR401 Exam Questions with Answers
mental health - ✔✔the successful performance of mental function, resulting in productive
activities, fulfilling relationships, and the ability to adapt to change and cope with adversity
elements that contribute to mental health - ✔✔biologic influences, psychological influences,
sociocultural influences
self-governance - ✔✔ability to make decision about own care
self-realization - ✔✔in ability to grow, succeed, and achieve goals no matter how small;
concept of self-success/goal-setting
tolerance of uncertainty - ✔✔being able to cope with life or stressor/adapt to change
self-esteem - ✔✔how you view yourself
reality orientation - ✔✔need to be based in reality to function in the world (vs.
psychosis/dementia)
mastery of environment - ✔✔ability to perform ADLs, hold a job, overcome an addiction, etc
mental illness - ✔✔a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome experienced by
a person, marked by distress, disability, or the risk of suffering, disability, or loss of freedom
dual diagnosis - ✔✔co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder
,comorbidity - ✔✔two co-occurring chronic illnesses in any combination (depression + anxiety;
depression + diabetes)
medication adherence - ✔✔managing one's care based on the plan of care developed as part of
the health care team; sticking to this developed plan of care (less stigmatizing term)
noncompliant vs. nonadherent - ✔✔term implies the patient is not doing what they are told to
do (stigmatizing)
5 point plan to improve the nation's mental health - ✔✔1. increase prevention, treatment, and
recovery services
2. expand the mental health workforce
3. widen the use of health information technology
4. educate the public
5. invest in research
NAMI - ✔✔nonprofit mental health education, advocacy, and support organization
goals:
1. communicating that mental illnesses are brain disorders
2. eliminating stigma and discrimination
3. advocating for people with mental illness
4. improving access to treatment services
5. integrating mental illness into community life
barriers to the delivery of adequate and accessible mental healthcare - ✔✔1. need for mental
health is increasing
2. limited access to mental health services (income/cost/parity, transportation)
, 3. provider limitations (numbers, current knowledge)
4. stigma
mental health parity - ✔✔-legislation requiring that annual or lifetime dollar limits on mental
health benefits be no lower than any such dollar limits for medical and surgical benefits offered
by a group health plan or health insurance issuer
-equality of benefits/same coverage (amount of deductible, number of visits, out of pocket
expense)
-broadens definition of mental health benefits to include substance-related disorder benefits
mental health nursing - ✔✔the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or
potential mental health problems; instill hope, be informed, decrease stigma
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) - ✔✔Axis 1: psychiatric
diagnoses/clinical disorder
Axis 2: personality disorders/mental retardation
Axis 3: medical conditions
Axis 4: psychosocial and environmental problems
Axis 5: global assessment of functioning
erroneous beliefs (myths) - ✔✔held by groups to stimulate, rationalize and organize actions
about certain phenomena; often adhered to against all evidence to the contrary
stigma - ✔✔widespread fear and misunderstanding of mental illness; heightened by focus on
extraordinary symptoms in film and literature
recovery - ✔✔-process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness,
live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential
-the process in which people are able to live, work, learn, and participate fully in their
communities; hope plays an integral role
mental health - ✔✔the successful performance of mental function, resulting in productive
activities, fulfilling relationships, and the ability to adapt to change and cope with adversity
elements that contribute to mental health - ✔✔biologic influences, psychological influences,
sociocultural influences
self-governance - ✔✔ability to make decision about own care
self-realization - ✔✔in ability to grow, succeed, and achieve goals no matter how small;
concept of self-success/goal-setting
tolerance of uncertainty - ✔✔being able to cope with life or stressor/adapt to change
self-esteem - ✔✔how you view yourself
reality orientation - ✔✔need to be based in reality to function in the world (vs.
psychosis/dementia)
mastery of environment - ✔✔ability to perform ADLs, hold a job, overcome an addiction, etc
mental illness - ✔✔a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome experienced by
a person, marked by distress, disability, or the risk of suffering, disability, or loss of freedom
dual diagnosis - ✔✔co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder
,comorbidity - ✔✔two co-occurring chronic illnesses in any combination (depression + anxiety;
depression + diabetes)
medication adherence - ✔✔managing one's care based on the plan of care developed as part of
the health care team; sticking to this developed plan of care (less stigmatizing term)
noncompliant vs. nonadherent - ✔✔term implies the patient is not doing what they are told to
do (stigmatizing)
5 point plan to improve the nation's mental health - ✔✔1. increase prevention, treatment, and
recovery services
2. expand the mental health workforce
3. widen the use of health information technology
4. educate the public
5. invest in research
NAMI - ✔✔nonprofit mental health education, advocacy, and support organization
goals:
1. communicating that mental illnesses are brain disorders
2. eliminating stigma and discrimination
3. advocating for people with mental illness
4. improving access to treatment services
5. integrating mental illness into community life
barriers to the delivery of adequate and accessible mental healthcare - ✔✔1. need for mental
health is increasing
2. limited access to mental health services (income/cost/parity, transportation)
, 3. provider limitations (numbers, current knowledge)
4. stigma
mental health parity - ✔✔-legislation requiring that annual or lifetime dollar limits on mental
health benefits be no lower than any such dollar limits for medical and surgical benefits offered
by a group health plan or health insurance issuer
-equality of benefits/same coverage (amount of deductible, number of visits, out of pocket
expense)
-broadens definition of mental health benefits to include substance-related disorder benefits
mental health nursing - ✔✔the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or
potential mental health problems; instill hope, be informed, decrease stigma
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) - ✔✔Axis 1: psychiatric
diagnoses/clinical disorder
Axis 2: personality disorders/mental retardation
Axis 3: medical conditions
Axis 4: psychosocial and environmental problems
Axis 5: global assessment of functioning
erroneous beliefs (myths) - ✔✔held by groups to stimulate, rationalize and organize actions
about certain phenomena; often adhered to against all evidence to the contrary
stigma - ✔✔widespread fear and misunderstanding of mental illness; heightened by focus on
extraordinary symptoms in film and literature
recovery - ✔✔-process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness,
live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential
-the process in which people are able to live, work, learn, and participate fully in their
communities; hope plays an integral role
