NUR2459 MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
NURSING FINAL 2026 COMPREHENSIVE
REVIEW AND TESTED CONCEPTS
◉ What is autonomy? Answer: Respecting the rights of others to
make their own decisions
◉ What is justice? Answer: The duty to distribute resource or care
equally, regardless of personal attribtutes.
◉ What is fidelity (nonmaleficence) Answer: Maintaining loyalty and
commitment to the patient and doing no wrong to the patient
◉ What is veracity? Answer: One's duty to communicate truthfully.
◉ What does a patient lose when they are admitted d/t suicide
attempt/ideation? Answer: Right to privacy.
◉ What are negative symptoms? Answer: A lack of feelings or
behaviors that are usually present. Losing interest in daily activities,
lack of feeling or emotion, having little emotion or inappropriate
feelings in certain situations, agnosia.
, ◉ What are positive symptoms? Answer: Feelings or behavior that
are not usually present. Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized
speech and behavior.
◉ What do atypical antipsychotics treat? Answer: Negative
symptoms.
◉ Examples of atypical antipsychotics Answer: Clozapine,
risperidone, olanzapine, aripiprazole, ziprasidone, and quetiapine.
◉ SE of atypical antipsychotics Answer: fewer EPS symptoms, temp,
increased wt, glucose, and triglycerides
◉ Three types of crisises? Answer: Situational/external,
maturational/internal, and adventitious
◉ What is a situational .external crisis? Answer: Often unanticipated
loss or change.
◉ What is maturational/internal crisis? Answer: Achieving new
developmental stages, which requires learning additional coping
mechanisms.
NURSING FINAL 2026 COMPREHENSIVE
REVIEW AND TESTED CONCEPTS
◉ What is autonomy? Answer: Respecting the rights of others to
make their own decisions
◉ What is justice? Answer: The duty to distribute resource or care
equally, regardless of personal attribtutes.
◉ What is fidelity (nonmaleficence) Answer: Maintaining loyalty and
commitment to the patient and doing no wrong to the patient
◉ What is veracity? Answer: One's duty to communicate truthfully.
◉ What does a patient lose when they are admitted d/t suicide
attempt/ideation? Answer: Right to privacy.
◉ What are negative symptoms? Answer: A lack of feelings or
behaviors that are usually present. Losing interest in daily activities,
lack of feeling or emotion, having little emotion or inappropriate
feelings in certain situations, agnosia.
, ◉ What are positive symptoms? Answer: Feelings or behavior that
are not usually present. Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized
speech and behavior.
◉ What do atypical antipsychotics treat? Answer: Negative
symptoms.
◉ Examples of atypical antipsychotics Answer: Clozapine,
risperidone, olanzapine, aripiprazole, ziprasidone, and quetiapine.
◉ SE of atypical antipsychotics Answer: fewer EPS symptoms, temp,
increased wt, glucose, and triglycerides
◉ Three types of crisises? Answer: Situational/external,
maturational/internal, and adventitious
◉ What is a situational .external crisis? Answer: Often unanticipated
loss or change.
◉ What is maturational/internal crisis? Answer: Achieving new
developmental stages, which requires learning additional coping
mechanisms.
