Rasmussen Mental Health Questions with CORRECT Answers (Verified Update)
Q1: When patients complain of physical symptoms, TAKE THE SYMPTOMS SERIOUSLY. Even if a
medical explanation is not found understandable, the symptoms are real and distressing to
the patient.
Answer: Important thing to remember regarding the assessment of a patient with somatoform
disorder
Q2: Nursing Interventions for Conversion Disorder
Answer: Use a straight forward approach
Q3: Traits of patients with personality disorders
Answer: Avoidance and fear of rejection
Q4: Determine if medical or psychiatric condition warrants hospitalization.
Answer: Anorexia Assessment
Q5: Objective findings in patients with Anorexia
Answer: Cachectic (severely underweight with muscle wasting)
Q6: Criteria for hospitalization of patients with eating disorders
Answer: **Physical Criteria** • Weight loss more than 30% over 6 months • Rapid decline in weight
• Inability to gain weight with outpatient treatment • Severe hypothermia caused by loss of
subcutaneous tissue or dehydration (body temperature lower than 36° C or 96.8° F) • Heart
rate less than 40 beats per minute • Systolic blood pressure less than 70 mm Hg •
Hypokalemia (less than 3 mEq/L) or other electrolyte disturbances not corrected by oral
supplementation • Electrocardiographic changes (especially dysrhythmias)
Q7: Introduce self and call patient by name at the beginning of each contact. With short-term
memory impairment, person is often confused and needs frequent orienting to time, place,
and person. -Encourage family and friends (one at a time) to take a quiet, supportive role.
Familiar presence lowers anxiety and increases orientation.
Answer: Keep room well lit. Lighting provides accurate environmental stimuli to maintain and
increase orientation. - Keep head of bed elevated. Helps provide important environmental
cues and helps to strengthen orientation.
Q8: Visual and Auditory Illusions Nursing Interventions
Answer: REORIENT THE PATIENT AND CLARIFY
, Q9: Medications for Behavioral Symptoms/Combativeness in Alzheimer's pts
Answer: For cognitive impairment
Q10: Nursing Interventions after giving Narcan
Answer: Immediately following administration, maintain safe distance from the patient as they could
become aggressive and start swinging.
Q11: CNS Stimulants (Opiates) Withdrawal S&S
Answer: Depression Fatigue Excess sleeping OR insomnia Agitation Cravings Rhinorrhea Fever
Dilated pupils
Q12: How are they Related? - Cocaine is a stimulant and alcohol is a depressant. The majority of
people with a cocaine abuse disorder they have an alcohol abuse disorder.
Answer: Cocaine Abuse and Alcohol
Q13: Meds for seizure control with alcohol withdrawal
Answer: Carbamazepine (Tegretol), or valproic acid (Depakote) -Helps reduce withdrawal symptoms
and the risk of seizures
Q14: Explain to the patient the signs and symptoms that many people experience during the long-
term phase, for example
Answer: a. Nightmares
Q15: Forensic Exam and Issues Related to Sexual Assault
Answer: Assess the signs and symptoms of physical trauma.
Q16: Physical Aggression Signs and Symptoms
Answer: These behaviors reflect rage, hostility, and potential for physical assault or verbal
destructiveness and can be directed at others or oneself; aggression is a hostile reaction
that occurs when control over anger is lost.
Q1: When patients complain of physical symptoms, TAKE THE SYMPTOMS SERIOUSLY. Even if a
medical explanation is not found understandable, the symptoms are real and distressing to
the patient.
Answer: Important thing to remember regarding the assessment of a patient with somatoform
disorder
Q2: Nursing Interventions for Conversion Disorder
Answer: Use a straight forward approach
Q3: Traits of patients with personality disorders
Answer: Avoidance and fear of rejection
Q4: Determine if medical or psychiatric condition warrants hospitalization.
Answer: Anorexia Assessment
Q5: Objective findings in patients with Anorexia
Answer: Cachectic (severely underweight with muscle wasting)
Q6: Criteria for hospitalization of patients with eating disorders
Answer: **Physical Criteria** • Weight loss more than 30% over 6 months • Rapid decline in weight
• Inability to gain weight with outpatient treatment • Severe hypothermia caused by loss of
subcutaneous tissue or dehydration (body temperature lower than 36° C or 96.8° F) • Heart
rate less than 40 beats per minute • Systolic blood pressure less than 70 mm Hg •
Hypokalemia (less than 3 mEq/L) or other electrolyte disturbances not corrected by oral
supplementation • Electrocardiographic changes (especially dysrhythmias)
Q7: Introduce self and call patient by name at the beginning of each contact. With short-term
memory impairment, person is often confused and needs frequent orienting to time, place,
and person. -Encourage family and friends (one at a time) to take a quiet, supportive role.
Familiar presence lowers anxiety and increases orientation.
Answer: Keep room well lit. Lighting provides accurate environmental stimuli to maintain and
increase orientation. - Keep head of bed elevated. Helps provide important environmental
cues and helps to strengthen orientation.
Q8: Visual and Auditory Illusions Nursing Interventions
Answer: REORIENT THE PATIENT AND CLARIFY
, Q9: Medications for Behavioral Symptoms/Combativeness in Alzheimer's pts
Answer: For cognitive impairment
Q10: Nursing Interventions after giving Narcan
Answer: Immediately following administration, maintain safe distance from the patient as they could
become aggressive and start swinging.
Q11: CNS Stimulants (Opiates) Withdrawal S&S
Answer: Depression Fatigue Excess sleeping OR insomnia Agitation Cravings Rhinorrhea Fever
Dilated pupils
Q12: How are they Related? - Cocaine is a stimulant and alcohol is a depressant. The majority of
people with a cocaine abuse disorder they have an alcohol abuse disorder.
Answer: Cocaine Abuse and Alcohol
Q13: Meds for seizure control with alcohol withdrawal
Answer: Carbamazepine (Tegretol), or valproic acid (Depakote) -Helps reduce withdrawal symptoms
and the risk of seizures
Q14: Explain to the patient the signs and symptoms that many people experience during the long-
term phase, for example
Answer: a. Nightmares
Q15: Forensic Exam and Issues Related to Sexual Assault
Answer: Assess the signs and symptoms of physical trauma.
Q16: Physical Aggression Signs and Symptoms
Answer: These behaviors reflect rage, hostility, and potential for physical assault or verbal
destructiveness and can be directed at others or oneself; aggression is a hostile reaction
that occurs when control over anger is lost.
