) Mental & Behavioral Health
Nursing - Rasmussen
Mental Health-FINAL EXAM Rasmussen
1.What type of patients go to memory care?: Dementia or Alzheimers
2. What type of environment is a memory care Locked unit, 24-7
super- vision. unit?:
3.What type of activities do you implement to interact with memory
TBI, vascular
care patients?: Activities that help them to recall their past-show old
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photos, ask questions like what was your first job? where did you grow up? what
was your parents names?
4.If a patient is not engaged in a group of people sharing photos what
might they be feeling?: Depressed, Isolated, Angry
5.Can a social worker make a decision about placement for an elderly
person if that person has living family members, a POA?: No, they cannot
make the decision. Nurses must educate family about decisions.
6. What does agnosia mean?: Inability to interpret sensations and
hence to recognize things, typically as a result of brain damage.
7.Example of something that could cause agnosia?:
dementia.
8. Characteristics of delirium.: Rapid in onset, 24-72 hours, related to
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,infection , NOT common with aging.
9.What is an important intervention for patients with delirium?: Reorient
them.
10.What are the primary characteristics of borderline personality disorder?-
: splitting people (Pitting a group against each other). Selfdefeating cycle of
behavior.
11.What do you give a patient who has overdosed on PCP?:
Benzodiazepine
12. Example of a benzodiazpine antidote?: Flumazenil
13.
What type of personality disorder might a patient who still lives at home
at 30 and depends on their mother for everything, have?: dependent
personality disorder
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Give an example of a positive statement
?: I will identify things that
made by a recovering alcohol
that made signal that they are getting better
trigger my cravings
15.Symptoms of patient with suspected opioid abuse/overdose?:
Contracted pupils, increased HR, shallow Resp., increased temp (but not always).
Narcan (Naloxone)
16.What do you give a opioid overdose patient?:
17. S/S of acute alcohol Everything is increased! RR, BP,
Temp, HR, delirium withdrawal?:
18.Characteristics of histrionic personality disorder?: Mania,
melodramatic, manipulative, emotional attention seeking behavior, often seductive
and flirtatious.
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