NUR 2459 UPDATED STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔explain socratic dialogue - ✔✔the therapist questions the client to elaborate the who
what where why how of the situation and describe feelings associated.
✔✔explain guided relaxation - ✔✔aimed at reducing autonomic responses to anxiety.
Deep breathing, imagery, meditation. Controls awareness over breathing, anxiety, and
thoughts
✔✔explain behavioral rehearsal - ✔✔role play allows the client to practice new ways to
approach situations and try out scenarios in real life. Can also be used with thoughts
with cognitive rehearsal.
✔✔explain questioning the evidence - ✔✔they view the thought as a hypothesis and
they question the facts with cognition.
✔✔explain examining options and alternatives - ✔✔helps a client see a broader range
of possibilities.
✔✔explain Decatastrophizing - ✔✔the client examines the validity of a negative thought
and develops a plan of action.
✔✔explain reattribution - ✔✔aims to reverse negative attribution by self blame or
placing the blame on others.
✔✔explain DRDT - ✔✔used to help clients identify and modify automatic thoughts in a 3
column thought record and rate the thoughts they have and explain more rational
approaches.
✔✔explain what ethics is - ✔✔is the branch of philosophy that addresses methods to
determine if one's actions are right or wrong.
, ✔✔explain what bioethics is - ✔✔applies to these same principles when referring to
concepts in medicine, nursing and allied health.
✔✔what are the ethical principles of nursing? - ✔✔· Autonomy
· Beneficence
· Non-maleficence
· Justice
· Veracity
·Fidelity
✔✔explain autonomy - ✔✔right to self determination and to make their own
independent choices about their medical and psychiatric care. Incapable individuals with
serious mental health disorders may need someone appointed to make those decisions.
✔✔explain beneficence - ✔✔the duty to promote the good of others. Nurses should act
in their clients best interests and have good interests that will serve the client the best
care in a good way, with sensitivity to wishes, beliefs, and feelings.
✔✔explain nonmalefience - ✔✔oing no harm to clients. A big part of this patient safety
when it comes to psychiatric disorders, as nurses we want to make sure everyone is
safe while receiving care.
✔✔explain justice - ✔✔giving fair treatment to all patients regardless of condition, past,
race, gender, etc . All care resources should be given equally to all, and the nurse
should favor all clients equally.
✔✔explain veracity - ✔✔the duty to be honest and truthful. The nurse should never
deceive or mislead patients.
✔✔explain fidelity - ✔✔keepings one's promise. the nurse should never break a
promise if one is made
✔✔explain moral behaviors - ✔✔conduct that results from serious critical thinking about
how individuals treat others
✔✔explain values - ✔✔personal beliefs about what is important or desirable.
✔✔what is utilitarianism? - ✔✔actions are right to the degree that they promote
happiness and are wrong as they produce the reverse of happiness.
✔✔what is kantianism? - ✔✔not the consequences that make an action right or wrong
but the motivation on which the action is based that is the morally decisive factor. Action
bound by a sense of duty, and decisions are made in respect to the moral law.
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔explain socratic dialogue - ✔✔the therapist questions the client to elaborate the who
what where why how of the situation and describe feelings associated.
✔✔explain guided relaxation - ✔✔aimed at reducing autonomic responses to anxiety.
Deep breathing, imagery, meditation. Controls awareness over breathing, anxiety, and
thoughts
✔✔explain behavioral rehearsal - ✔✔role play allows the client to practice new ways to
approach situations and try out scenarios in real life. Can also be used with thoughts
with cognitive rehearsal.
✔✔explain questioning the evidence - ✔✔they view the thought as a hypothesis and
they question the facts with cognition.
✔✔explain examining options and alternatives - ✔✔helps a client see a broader range
of possibilities.
✔✔explain Decatastrophizing - ✔✔the client examines the validity of a negative thought
and develops a plan of action.
✔✔explain reattribution - ✔✔aims to reverse negative attribution by self blame or
placing the blame on others.
✔✔explain DRDT - ✔✔used to help clients identify and modify automatic thoughts in a 3
column thought record and rate the thoughts they have and explain more rational
approaches.
✔✔explain what ethics is - ✔✔is the branch of philosophy that addresses methods to
determine if one's actions are right or wrong.
, ✔✔explain what bioethics is - ✔✔applies to these same principles when referring to
concepts in medicine, nursing and allied health.
✔✔what are the ethical principles of nursing? - ✔✔· Autonomy
· Beneficence
· Non-maleficence
· Justice
· Veracity
·Fidelity
✔✔explain autonomy - ✔✔right to self determination and to make their own
independent choices about their medical and psychiatric care. Incapable individuals with
serious mental health disorders may need someone appointed to make those decisions.
✔✔explain beneficence - ✔✔the duty to promote the good of others. Nurses should act
in their clients best interests and have good interests that will serve the client the best
care in a good way, with sensitivity to wishes, beliefs, and feelings.
✔✔explain nonmalefience - ✔✔oing no harm to clients. A big part of this patient safety
when it comes to psychiatric disorders, as nurses we want to make sure everyone is
safe while receiving care.
✔✔explain justice - ✔✔giving fair treatment to all patients regardless of condition, past,
race, gender, etc . All care resources should be given equally to all, and the nurse
should favor all clients equally.
✔✔explain veracity - ✔✔the duty to be honest and truthful. The nurse should never
deceive or mislead patients.
✔✔explain fidelity - ✔✔keepings one's promise. the nurse should never break a
promise if one is made
✔✔explain moral behaviors - ✔✔conduct that results from serious critical thinking about
how individuals treat others
✔✔explain values - ✔✔personal beliefs about what is important or desirable.
✔✔what is utilitarianism? - ✔✔actions are right to the degree that they promote
happiness and are wrong as they produce the reverse of happiness.
✔✔what is kantianism? - ✔✔not the consequences that make an action right or wrong
but the motivation on which the action is based that is the morally decisive factor. Action
bound by a sense of duty, and decisions are made in respect to the moral law.
