A question about like always face the patient when providing cares to an
aggressive patient.
Lots of questions on therapeutic communication, I thought they were fairly easy.
Stuff like asking opened questions, telling the patient that they are safe
There was a question about like a patient wants to eat food in his room but is isn’t
allowed and I set to set limits. I think other answers were like let him eat, ignore
him, etc.
Question about loose associations- talks about like march, march is small march
Is girl, something like that
Question about the characteristic of schizophrenia-something being suicidal
LOTS of questions on defense mechanism denial, projection, regression, and
rationalization. Make sure you know the definitions to those. I didn’t study that
shit at all and guessed on all those questions
Question about what delusions of grandeur are
There was a question about like what is characteristic of mania I think I picked
verbosity
There was a few about lithium like stuff I didn’t know how to answer at all
o I saw something about like blurred vison, ringing in ears
o You guys should google and see if weight gain and a slight hand tremor is
a side effect of it. I forgot what the question was but I picked if the patient
gains weight and has a hand tremor that the medication should be
discontinued
, o There was a question like about teach back or education about taking
lithium and I think I said like monitor blood levels, ugh sorry I can’t
remember the rest
Obsessions are repetitive thoughts, whereas compulsions are ritualistic
behaviors.
Dissociative Identity Disorder – Two or more fully developed, distinct, and
unique personalities exist within the client.
There was a question about a patient who has type 2 diabetes and she has major
depression, and it’s like what complication is most likely to arise, and the options
were like hypoglycemic events, sleeping instead of checking blood glucose. I
think I picked the sleeping one
Lots on schizophrenia
Dissociative Amnesia - The client blocks out all memories about a specified
period.
A few on PTSD and ASD. Like the difference
A few on bulimia and anorexia
A question about characteristic of anorexia and I said cessation of menses
Something about like what do with a bulimia patient, and I said follow patient if
they take trips to bathroom after eating
· Dependent personality disorder - inability to make decisions
· Antisocial personality disorder– abusive, no sense of remorse, no empathy.
There was a question like about an antisocial personality disorder person burps
loudly and then a nurse makes a comment about like being repulsive and the
question was like what does the antisocial person do and how does he react and I
said he would get defensive I think. The rest were like patient will be remorseful,
embarrassed