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NUR 208/ NUR208 Exam 1 – Mental Health Nursing Guide| Fortis (Latest 2026/ 2027 Update) 100% Verified Questions & Answers | Grade A QUESTION Client Rights Answer: privacy and confidentiality treatment and medications written treatment plan QUESTION Healthcare professionals can override treatment refusal when Answer: a client is actively suicidal or homicidal. A suicidal or homicidal client who refuses treatment may be in danger or a danger to others. This situation should be treated as an emergency, and treatment may be performed without informed consent. QUESTION Voluntary commitment Answer: The circumstance in which the individual agrees to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital and is permitted to leave at any time. QUESTION Involuntary commitment Answer: procedure of placing some people with mental illnesses in a psychiatric hospital or another facility based on their potential danger to themselves or others or their inability to care for themselves QUESTION Involuntary admissions are commonly reserved for Answer: people who are suicidal, homicidal, or extremely disabled and in need of acute care. QUESTION Mental Status Evaluations Answer: Assessment of the client's orientation to reality is part of a mental status evaluation. When assessing a client's orientation, the nurse should ask the client to identify their name, date, residential address, and situation QUESTION Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) Answer: Brief 30-point questionnaire test that is used to screen for cognitive impairment; commonly used to screen for dementia. QUESTION Psychoanalytic Theory Answer: Sir Sigmund Freud- Three levels of awareness: the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious. The unconscious includes all repressed memories, passions, and unacceptable urges that are deep below the surface of awareness. The conscious part of the mind contains all the material a person is aware of at any one time. QUESTION Transference is a concept from Answer: classic psychoanalysis that refers to unconscious feelings that a client has toward the nurse that were originally felt in childhood for a significant other. QUESTION Countertransference is when the nurse Answer: unconsciously displaces feelings related to significant figures in the nurse's past onto the client. QUESTION Countertransference can develop from Answer: zoverinvolvement or inappropriate feelings for a client and impairs the therapeutic relationship. QUESTION The superego develops between the ages Answer: 3 and 5 and represents the moral component of personality QUESTION The superego controls the Answer:

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NURl 208/l NUR208l Examl 1l –l Mentall
Healthl Nursingl Guide|l Fortisl (Latestl
2026/l 2027l Update)l 100%l Verifiedl
Questionsl &l Answersl |l Gradel A

Q:l Clientl Rights
Answer:
privacyl andl confidentiality
treatmentl andl medications
writtenl treatmentl plan



Q:l Healthcarel professionalsl canl overridel treatmentl refusall when
Answer:
al clientl isl activelyl suicidall orl homicidal.l Al suicidall orl homicidall clientl whol refusesl
treatmentl mayl bel inl dangerl orl al dangerl tol others.l Thisl situationl shouldl bel treatedl asl
anl emergency,l andl treatmentl mayl bel performedl withoutl informedl consent.



Q:l Voluntaryl commitment
Answer:
Thel circumstancel inl whichl thel individuall agreesl tol bel admittedl tol al psychiatricl
hospitall andl isl permittedl tol leavel atl anyl time.



Q:l Involuntaryl commitment
Answer:

,procedurel ofl placingl somel peoplel withl mentall illnessesl inl al psychiatricl hospitall orl
anotherl facilityl basedl onl theirl potentiall dangerl tol themselvesl orl othersl orl theirl inabilityl
tol carel forl themselves



Q:l Involuntaryl admissionsl arel commonlyl reservedl for
Answer:
peoplel whol arel suicidal,l homicidal,l orl extremelyl disabledl andl inl needl ofl acutel care.



Q:l Mentall Statusl Evaluations
Answer:
Assessmentl ofl thel client'sl orientationl tol realityl isl partl ofl al mentall statusl evaluation.l
Whenl assessingl al client'sl orientation,l thel nursel shouldl askl thel clientl tol identifyl theirl
name,l date,l residentiall address,l andl situation



Q:l Mini-Mentall Statel Examinationl (MMSE)
Answer:
Briefl 30-pointl questionnairel testl thatl isl usedl tol screenl forl cognitivel impairment;l
commonlyl usedl tol screenl forl dementia.



Q:l Psychoanalyticl Theory
Answer:
Sirl Sigmundl Freud-l Threel levelsl ofl awareness:l thel conscious,l preconscious,l andl
unconscious.l Thel unconsciousl includesl alll repressedl memories,l passions,l andl
unacceptablel urgesl thatl arel deepl belowl thel surfacel ofl awareness.l Thel consciousl partl ofl
thel mindl containsl alll thel materiall al personl isl awarel ofl atl anyl onel time.



Q:l Transferencel isl al conceptl from
Answer:

, classicl psychoanalysisl thatl refersl tol unconsciousl feelingsl thatl al clientl hasl towardl thel
nursel thatl werel originallyl feltl inl childhoodl forl al significantl other.



Q:l Countertransferencel isl whenl thel nurse
Answer:
unconsciouslyl displacesl feelingsl relatedl tol significantl figuresl inl thel nurse'sl pastl ontol
thel client.



Q:l Countertransferencel canl developl from
Answer:
zoverinvolvementl orl inappropriatel feelingsl forl al clientl andl impairsl thel therapeuticl
relationship.



Q:l Thel superegol developsl betweenl thel ages
Answer:
3l andl 5l andl representsl thel morall componentl ofl personality



Q:l Thel superegol controlsl the
Answer:
consciousl awarenessl ofl morall wrongs



Q:l Thel egol controlsl the
Answer:
consciousl awarenessl ofl morall rights



Q:l Badl behaviorl willl inducel feelingsl ofl guiltl throughl the

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