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NSG 411 EXAM 1... Questions with Answers (100%
Correct Answers)
What is mental health vs mental illness Answer: adaptation to stressors
vs maladaptive response to stressors
Flat affective Answer: no emotion or expression
perserverate Answer: repeating behaviors/thoughts about same thing
over and over
Nurse's role in a crisis Answer: establish back to previous self before
crisis (not cure)
3 anxiety levels Answer: Mild: Everyday stressors; running late to work
Moderate: Added stressors; spilling coffee
Severe: hyper-focused on stressor
Crisis: coping mechanisms exhausted from other mental illnesses (pre-
existing)
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Nursing interventions fro each anxiety level Answer: Mild: have good
customer service; apologize
Moderate: verbally de-escalate
Severe: SET LIMITS; safety is a priority
Panic/crisis: Restraints*
Altruism Answer: act goodwill for others
Compensation Answer: counterbalancing weaknesses by emphasizing
strengths
Denial Answer: refusal to accept reality
Displacement Answer: redirecting thoughts/feelings onto someone else
Identification Answer: repeated behaviors based off of an irrational fear
Intellectualization Answer: distance themselves from feeling the
emotions, rather than deal with it
Introjection Answer: taking stimuli from environment and adopting
them as their own
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Projection Answer: attributed your negative thoughts as other people's
thoughts
Ex: i think I'm fat, so i think other ppl think I'm fat
Reaction formation Answer: converting unwanted thoughts/feelings
into their opposite
Regression Answer: reverting to earlier developmental stage
Repression Answer: Unconscious forgetting
Supression Answer: Conscious forgetting
Sublimation Answer: channeling unacceptable feelings into acceptable
ones
Ex:(painting portraits instead of graffiti) (channeling aggression into
contact sport)
Fugue Answer: unexpected travel away from home
Echopraxia Answer: Mimicry or imitation of the movements of another
person.
Echolalia Answer: parrot like repetition
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Transference vs Countertransference Answer: Negative
feelings/behaviors
1. Transference: pt to nurse
2. Countertransference: nurse to pt
Examples of Non-therapeutic communication Answer: -reassurance
-rejecting
-approve/disapprove
-advice
-probing
Dispositional crisis Answer: an acute response to an external situational
stressor
->loss of relationship
Anticipated life transition crisis example Answer: anticipating death of
loved one
Traumatic stress Answer: unexpected external stressor
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NSG 411 EXAM 1... Questions with Answers (100%
Correct Answers)
What is mental health vs mental illness Answer: adaptation to stressors
vs maladaptive response to stressors
Flat affective Answer: no emotion or expression
perserverate Answer: repeating behaviors/thoughts about same thing
over and over
Nurse's role in a crisis Answer: establish back to previous self before
crisis (not cure)
3 anxiety levels Answer: Mild: Everyday stressors; running late to work
Moderate: Added stressors; spilling coffee
Severe: hyper-focused on stressor
Crisis: coping mechanisms exhausted from other mental illnesses (pre-
existing)
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Nursing interventions fro each anxiety level Answer: Mild: have good
customer service; apologize
Moderate: verbally de-escalate
Severe: SET LIMITS; safety is a priority
Panic/crisis: Restraints*
Altruism Answer: act goodwill for others
Compensation Answer: counterbalancing weaknesses by emphasizing
strengths
Denial Answer: refusal to accept reality
Displacement Answer: redirecting thoughts/feelings onto someone else
Identification Answer: repeated behaviors based off of an irrational fear
Intellectualization Answer: distance themselves from feeling the
emotions, rather than deal with it
Introjection Answer: taking stimuli from environment and adopting
them as their own
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Projection Answer: attributed your negative thoughts as other people's
thoughts
Ex: i think I'm fat, so i think other ppl think I'm fat
Reaction formation Answer: converting unwanted thoughts/feelings
into their opposite
Regression Answer: reverting to earlier developmental stage
Repression Answer: Unconscious forgetting
Supression Answer: Conscious forgetting
Sublimation Answer: channeling unacceptable feelings into acceptable
ones
Ex:(painting portraits instead of graffiti) (channeling aggression into
contact sport)
Fugue Answer: unexpected travel away from home
Echopraxia Answer: Mimicry or imitation of the movements of another
person.
Echolalia Answer: parrot like repetition
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Transference vs Countertransference Answer: Negative
feelings/behaviors
1. Transference: pt to nurse
2. Countertransference: nurse to pt
Examples of Non-therapeutic communication Answer: -reassurance
-rejecting
-approve/disapprove
-advice
-probing
Dispositional crisis Answer: an acute response to an external situational
stressor
->loss of relationship
Anticipated life transition crisis example Answer: anticipating death of
loved one
Traumatic stress Answer: unexpected external stressor
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