RSC2601 EXAM PREPARATION 2026 FINAL
REVIEW QUESTIONS ANSWERS BUNDLED
PRACTICE COLLECTION
◉ Vulnerability to maladaption.
Answer: Mental health disorder RISK
◉ diathesis.
Answer: IDENTIFIES risk factors AND vulnerabilities that increase
likelihood of maladaptive response to stress
◉ What Diathesis stress model does NOT DO.
Answer: It does NOT measure stress score, rank anxiety OR diagnose
a specific disorder
◉ Diathesis does NOT.
Answer: Measure stress score, rank anxiety or diagnose disorder
◉ Mental health coverage CANNOT be more.
Answer: Restrictive than medical-surgical coverage under the same
plan
,◉ Insurance CANT make mental health care way harder to get than.
Answer: Regular medical care
◉ Insurance must cover....
Answer: Mental health fairly
Treat psych care similar to medical care
Include substance abuse treatment too
◉ What insurance does NOT do.
Answer: Does NOT requires 100% coverage of hospital stay
Does NOT force employers without medical coverage to add mental
health coverage
Does NOT eliminate prior authority just makes it EQUAL
◉ Eliminate answer choices with.
Answer: - 100%
-force
,- eliminate
◉ Mental health diagnosis draws from history, behavior, and time.
Answer: NOT LAB values
◉ Mental Health Assessment.
Answer: Psychosocial: relationships, work, school, housing, support,
trauma
Medical: chronic illness, meds, prior hospitalization
Family: mental illness in relatives, family dynamics
Spiritual: beliefs, practices, FICA tool
Substance use: pattern, amount, last use, withdraw, history
Chief complaint: patients own words about WHY they seek care
◉ SURGICAL history, vaccine records, and allergies are NOT used.
, Answer: To diagnose mental illness those are GENERAL health
history
◉ Nursing process.
Answer: assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning,
implementation, evaluation
1. Observe, behaviors (subjective/objective data)
2. What does all this information mean/ figure out problem
3. Make goals decide what to do
4. Carry out plan
5. See if the plan worked "did pt improve?"
◉ You walk in a room and see a patient pacing while glancing
repeatedly in the corner what step is this?.
Answer: 1, assessments
You're watching them do this
REVIEW QUESTIONS ANSWERS BUNDLED
PRACTICE COLLECTION
◉ Vulnerability to maladaption.
Answer: Mental health disorder RISK
◉ diathesis.
Answer: IDENTIFIES risk factors AND vulnerabilities that increase
likelihood of maladaptive response to stress
◉ What Diathesis stress model does NOT DO.
Answer: It does NOT measure stress score, rank anxiety OR diagnose
a specific disorder
◉ Diathesis does NOT.
Answer: Measure stress score, rank anxiety or diagnose disorder
◉ Mental health coverage CANNOT be more.
Answer: Restrictive than medical-surgical coverage under the same
plan
,◉ Insurance CANT make mental health care way harder to get than.
Answer: Regular medical care
◉ Insurance must cover....
Answer: Mental health fairly
Treat psych care similar to medical care
Include substance abuse treatment too
◉ What insurance does NOT do.
Answer: Does NOT requires 100% coverage of hospital stay
Does NOT force employers without medical coverage to add mental
health coverage
Does NOT eliminate prior authority just makes it EQUAL
◉ Eliminate answer choices with.
Answer: - 100%
-force
,- eliminate
◉ Mental health diagnosis draws from history, behavior, and time.
Answer: NOT LAB values
◉ Mental Health Assessment.
Answer: Psychosocial: relationships, work, school, housing, support,
trauma
Medical: chronic illness, meds, prior hospitalization
Family: mental illness in relatives, family dynamics
Spiritual: beliefs, practices, FICA tool
Substance use: pattern, amount, last use, withdraw, history
Chief complaint: patients own words about WHY they seek care
◉ SURGICAL history, vaccine records, and allergies are NOT used.
, Answer: To diagnose mental illness those are GENERAL health
history
◉ Nursing process.
Answer: assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning,
implementation, evaluation
1. Observe, behaviors (subjective/objective data)
2. What does all this information mean/ figure out problem
3. Make goals decide what to do
4. Carry out plan
5. See if the plan worked "did pt improve?"
◉ You walk in a room and see a patient pacing while glancing
repeatedly in the corner what step is this?.
Answer: 1, assessments
You're watching them do this