RNSG-1128 Exam 1 Questions and Correct
Answers
Acute Grief Ans: Begins immediately after the death of a loved
one and includes the separation response and response to stress.
Agoraphobia Ans: Severe anxiety and fear
Anxiety Ans: A vague uneasy feeling of discomfort or dread, an
emotional response to a treat. The source is often nonspecific or
unknown. It is a feeling of apprehension caused by anticipating
danger.
Compassion Fatigue Ans: A state of chromic and continuous self-
sacrifice and/or prolonged exposure to difficult situations that
affect a health care professional's physical, emotional and spiritual
well-being.
Coping Ans: An ever-changing process involving cognitive means
and behavioral actions to manage internal and/or external
situations that are perceived as difficult and/or beyond the
individual's current resources.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) Ans: Excessive uncontrolled
worries most days causing sleep disturbances, irritability, fatigue
and restlessness for at least 6 mos.
Grief Ans: The emotional response to a loss, defined as the
individualized and personalized feelings and responses that an
individual makes to real, perceived or anticipated loss.
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Maladaptive Coping Ans: Ways a person uses to attempt to reduce
their stress or anxiety, but in an ineffective, unhealthy way.
Perceived Controllability Ans: When someone believes or is heavily
influenced by his or her culture, that in general, personal action
controls outcomes. A situation itself may or may not be perceived
as stressful, depending on one's culture, and the response to an
event is often culturally based.
Psychosomatic Symptoms Ans: Clients who do not cope well with
stress or emotions develop physical symptoms that are real as a
means of coping.
Selective Mutism Ans: Anxiety disorder characterized by a
person's inability to speak in certain social settings such as at a
school, work or in a community although they may speak freely at
home. There is a high level of social anxiety or phobia in these
situations.
Separation anxiety disorder Ans: Occurs in children younger than
18, but an also have adulty onset. When someone becomes very
anxious or worried when left alone by clinging to someone they
trust or have physical complaints for more than 4 weeks in
children and longer than 6 months in adults.
Social Anxiety Disorder Ans: Fear of being negatively judged at
social performances or situations.
Systemic Desensitization Ans: The patient is exposed to
progressively more anxiety-provoking stimuli and taught
relaxation techniques.
Therapeutic Communication Ans: The exchange of verbal and non-
verbal interactions between healthcare providers and clin for a
goal-directed purpose.
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