ATI CAPSTONE MENTAL HEALTH FINAL
EXAM PRACTICE SCRIPT UPDATED 2026
TESTED SOLUTIONS
⫸ Emergency Admission Answer: Occurs when a client acts in a way
that indicates mental illness, likely to harm themselves or others. After
required stay, they can change to voluntary.
⫸ Involuntary Admission Answer: Legal process is required, does not
happen overnight, is a threat to self or others. They are admitted against
will, made by court. Can last 6 months to a year if refusing treatment.
⫸ Confidentiality Answer: Professional use of knowledge about the
client to enhance their care. Important in care of pt with mental illness
due to the stigma attached to psychiatric diagnosis.
⫸ Duty to Warn Answer: Serious harm or death occurs. Report
suspected incidents of harm or abuse.
⫸ Accurate Documentation Answer: Used in the court of law.
Document behavior in a clear and objective manner.
⫸ Hallucinations Answer: False sensory perception that do not exist.
More than likely schizophrenia.
,⫸ Illusions Answer: Misinterpreting of actual stimuli, thinking
something is something else.
⫸ Delusions Answer: Inaccurate or false beliefs that can't be corrected
by reasoning.
⫸ Delusions of Grandeur Answer: Believe they are special or have a
special power or ability.
⫸ Delusion of Reference Answer: False beliefs that one is at the center
of attention.
⫸ Delusion of Persecution Answer: Thinking others are seeking to hurt
them.
⫸ Therapeutic Communication Answer: The nurse demonstrates
empathy, uses effective communication skills that respond to the clients'
thoughts, needs, and concerns.
⫸ Nontherapeutic Communication Answer: Interaction that develops
when the nurse responds in ways that can cause clients to feel defensive,
misunderstood, or discouraged.
⫸ Countertransference Answer: When the nurse mistakes characteristics
of people in the past onto a client.
, ⫸ Transference Answer: Client views nurse as having characteristics of
someone from past and has been significant to their personal life.
⫸ Maslow Hierarchy Answer: 1. Physical needs. 2. Safety and security.
3. Love and belonging. 4. Self-esteem. 5. Self-actualization.
⫸ Electroconvulsive Therapy Answer: A grand mal seizure is
artificially induced in an anesthetized pt by passing a very small amount
of electrical current through electrodes applied to the patient's temple.
⫸ Antipsychotic Agents Answer: Treat psychotic symptoms thought to
arise from an imbalance of dopamine in the brain.
⫸ Examples of Antipsychotics Answer: Risperidone, ziprasidone,
olanzapine, quetiapine, clozapine, haloperidol, chlorpromazine,
thiothixene.
⫸ Side Effects of Antipsychotics Answer: Parkinsonism, Dystonia,
Tardive Dyskinesia.
⫸ Cogentin (benztropine) Answer: An anticholinergic used to treat
parkinsonism & dystonia.
⫸ Antianxiety Medications Answer: Benzodiazepines: alprazolam,
diazepam, clonazepam, lorazepam.
EXAM PRACTICE SCRIPT UPDATED 2026
TESTED SOLUTIONS
⫸ Emergency Admission Answer: Occurs when a client acts in a way
that indicates mental illness, likely to harm themselves or others. After
required stay, they can change to voluntary.
⫸ Involuntary Admission Answer: Legal process is required, does not
happen overnight, is a threat to self or others. They are admitted against
will, made by court. Can last 6 months to a year if refusing treatment.
⫸ Confidentiality Answer: Professional use of knowledge about the
client to enhance their care. Important in care of pt with mental illness
due to the stigma attached to psychiatric diagnosis.
⫸ Duty to Warn Answer: Serious harm or death occurs. Report
suspected incidents of harm or abuse.
⫸ Accurate Documentation Answer: Used in the court of law.
Document behavior in a clear and objective manner.
⫸ Hallucinations Answer: False sensory perception that do not exist.
More than likely schizophrenia.
,⫸ Illusions Answer: Misinterpreting of actual stimuli, thinking
something is something else.
⫸ Delusions Answer: Inaccurate or false beliefs that can't be corrected
by reasoning.
⫸ Delusions of Grandeur Answer: Believe they are special or have a
special power or ability.
⫸ Delusion of Reference Answer: False beliefs that one is at the center
of attention.
⫸ Delusion of Persecution Answer: Thinking others are seeking to hurt
them.
⫸ Therapeutic Communication Answer: The nurse demonstrates
empathy, uses effective communication skills that respond to the clients'
thoughts, needs, and concerns.
⫸ Nontherapeutic Communication Answer: Interaction that develops
when the nurse responds in ways that can cause clients to feel defensive,
misunderstood, or discouraged.
⫸ Countertransference Answer: When the nurse mistakes characteristics
of people in the past onto a client.
, ⫸ Transference Answer: Client views nurse as having characteristics of
someone from past and has been significant to their personal life.
⫸ Maslow Hierarchy Answer: 1. Physical needs. 2. Safety and security.
3. Love and belonging. 4. Self-esteem. 5. Self-actualization.
⫸ Electroconvulsive Therapy Answer: A grand mal seizure is
artificially induced in an anesthetized pt by passing a very small amount
of electrical current through electrodes applied to the patient's temple.
⫸ Antipsychotic Agents Answer: Treat psychotic symptoms thought to
arise from an imbalance of dopamine in the brain.
⫸ Examples of Antipsychotics Answer: Risperidone, ziprasidone,
olanzapine, quetiapine, clozapine, haloperidol, chlorpromazine,
thiothixene.
⫸ Side Effects of Antipsychotics Answer: Parkinsonism, Dystonia,
Tardive Dyskinesia.
⫸ Cogentin (benztropine) Answer: An anticholinergic used to treat
parkinsonism & dystonia.
⫸ Antianxiety Medications Answer: Benzodiazepines: alprazolam,
diazepam, clonazepam, lorazepam.
