NFDN 2007 Mental Health Nursing SLOs units 1-6.
(Midterm prep) questions with accurate answers
.
Apply the nursing process and the metaparadigm of nursing to the care
of a client with schizophrenia. Ans✓✓✓
**clinical course of schizophrenia Ans✓✓✓ Acute illness- bizarre or
disruptive thoughts & behaviour. Positive and negative symptoms.
Treatment: psychotherapeutics, suicide prevention, sleep normalization,
decrease substance use.
Stabilization- symptoms less acute but present, need medication regime.
Maintenance & recovery- stable condition, focus is to regain
functioning.
Relapse
Anti-anxiety: Benzodiazepines, sedatives, hypnotics, i.e. Diazepam,
Lorazepam Ans✓✓✓
Anticonvulsants, i.e. Dilantin, Valproic Acid Ans✓✓✓
Antidepressants: TCAs, SSRIs, MAOI's, i.e. Amitryptyline, Citalopram,
Paxil Ans✓✓✓
Apply nursing knowledge and related theory to the care of the client
with mood disorders. Ans✓✓✓
,Apply nursing knowledge and related theory to the care of the client
with schizoaffective disorder. Ans✓✓✓
Apply nursing knowledge and related theory to the care of the client
with schizophrenia. Ans✓✓✓ "skhizo" split/divided "phren" mind
schizophrenia- shattered mind
Disturbances in thought process.
Apply nursing knowledge and related theory to the care of the client
with substance-related and addictive disorders. Ans✓✓✓
Apply the nursing process and the metaparadigm of nursing to the care
of a client with a mood disorder. Ans✓✓✓
Apply the nursing process and the metaparadigm of nursing to the care
of a client with schizoaffective disorder. Ans✓✓✓
Apply the nursing process and the metaparadigm of nursing to the care
of a client with substance-related and addictive disorders. Ans✓✓✓
Apply the nursing process to the mental health client and family.
Ans✓✓✓ Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
, Implementation
Evaluation
Applying principles of communication identify how the nurse can
terminate the therapeutic nurse-client relationship appropriately in
mental health nursing. Ans✓✓✓ there is something really wack about
this question.
Compare the benefits and risks associated with various other forms of
biologic treatments including ECT, phototherapy and nutritional
therapies. Ans✓✓✓ Electroconvulsive Therapy (ETC): Application of
electricity to seize, treats Major depression.
Light therapy: treats depressive symptoms. effects begin in 1-4 days.
Define prejudice, discrimination, stereotyping, and stigma as related to
mental illness. (textbook pg. 34) Ans✓✓✓ -Stereotyping is expecting
individuals to act in a characteristic manner that conforms, most often, to
a negative perception of their cultural group.
-Prejudice is a hostile attitude toward others simply because they belong
to a group that is considered to have objectionable characteristics.
-Discrimination is the negative differential treatment of others because
they are members of a certain group or identified as being negatively
different.
-Stigma is negative, discriminatory, and rejecting attitudes and
behaviour toward a characteristic or element exhibited by an individual
or group.
(Midterm prep) questions with accurate answers
.
Apply the nursing process and the metaparadigm of nursing to the care
of a client with schizophrenia. Ans✓✓✓
**clinical course of schizophrenia Ans✓✓✓ Acute illness- bizarre or
disruptive thoughts & behaviour. Positive and negative symptoms.
Treatment: psychotherapeutics, suicide prevention, sleep normalization,
decrease substance use.
Stabilization- symptoms less acute but present, need medication regime.
Maintenance & recovery- stable condition, focus is to regain
functioning.
Relapse
Anti-anxiety: Benzodiazepines, sedatives, hypnotics, i.e. Diazepam,
Lorazepam Ans✓✓✓
Anticonvulsants, i.e. Dilantin, Valproic Acid Ans✓✓✓
Antidepressants: TCAs, SSRIs, MAOI's, i.e. Amitryptyline, Citalopram,
Paxil Ans✓✓✓
Apply nursing knowledge and related theory to the care of the client
with mood disorders. Ans✓✓✓
,Apply nursing knowledge and related theory to the care of the client
with schizoaffective disorder. Ans✓✓✓
Apply nursing knowledge and related theory to the care of the client
with schizophrenia. Ans✓✓✓ "skhizo" split/divided "phren" mind
schizophrenia- shattered mind
Disturbances in thought process.
Apply nursing knowledge and related theory to the care of the client
with substance-related and addictive disorders. Ans✓✓✓
Apply the nursing process and the metaparadigm of nursing to the care
of a client with a mood disorder. Ans✓✓✓
Apply the nursing process and the metaparadigm of nursing to the care
of a client with schizoaffective disorder. Ans✓✓✓
Apply the nursing process and the metaparadigm of nursing to the care
of a client with substance-related and addictive disorders. Ans✓✓✓
Apply the nursing process to the mental health client and family.
Ans✓✓✓ Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
, Implementation
Evaluation
Applying principles of communication identify how the nurse can
terminate the therapeutic nurse-client relationship appropriately in
mental health nursing. Ans✓✓✓ there is something really wack about
this question.
Compare the benefits and risks associated with various other forms of
biologic treatments including ECT, phototherapy and nutritional
therapies. Ans✓✓✓ Electroconvulsive Therapy (ETC): Application of
electricity to seize, treats Major depression.
Light therapy: treats depressive symptoms. effects begin in 1-4 days.
Define prejudice, discrimination, stereotyping, and stigma as related to
mental illness. (textbook pg. 34) Ans✓✓✓ -Stereotyping is expecting
individuals to act in a characteristic manner that conforms, most often, to
a negative perception of their cultural group.
-Prejudice is a hostile attitude toward others simply because they belong
to a group that is considered to have objectionable characteristics.
-Discrimination is the negative differential treatment of others because
they are members of a certain group or identified as being negatively
different.
-Stigma is negative, discriminatory, and rejecting attitudes and
behaviour toward a characteristic or element exhibited by an individual
or group.
