NURS 6438 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAM PREP UPDATED
STUDY GUIDE SOLVED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
◉ What type of environment is a memory care unit?
Answer: Locked unit, 24-7 supervision.
◉ What type of activities do you implement to interact with memory
care patients?
Answer: Activities that help them to recall their past-show old
photos, ask questions like what was your first job? where did you
grow up? what was your parents names?
◉ If a patient is not engaged in a group of people sharing photos
what might they be feeling?
Answer: Depressed, Isolated, Angry
◉ Can a social worker make a decision about placement for an
elderly person if that person has living family members, a POA?
Answer: No, they cannot make the decision. Nurses must educate
family about decisions.
,◉ What does agnosia mean?
Answer: Inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize
things, typically as a result of brain damage.
◉ Example of something that could cause agnosia?
Answer: TBI, vascular dementia.
◉ Characteristics of delirium.
Answer: Rapid in onset, 24-72 hours, related to infection, NOT
common with aging.
◉ What is an important intervention for patients with delirium?
Answer: Reorient them.
◉ What are the primary characteristics of borderline personality
disorder?
Answer: splitting people (Pitting a group against each other). Self-
defeating cycle of behavior.
◉ What do you give a patient who has overdosed on PCP?
Answer: Benzodiazepine
◉ Example of a benzodiazpine antidote?
, Answer: Flumazenil
◉ What type of personality disorder might a patient who still lives at
home at 30 and depends on their mother for everything, have?
Answer: dependent personality disorder
◉ Give an example of a positive statement made by a recovering
alcohol that made signal that they are getting better?
Answer: I will identify things that trigger my cravings
◉ Symptoms of patient with suspected opioid abuse/overdose?
Answer: Contracted pupils, increased HR, shallow Resp., increased
temp (but not always).
◉ What do you give a opioid overdose patient?
Answer: Narcan (Naloxone)
◉ S/S of acute alcohol withdrawal?
Answer: Everything is increased! RR, BP, Temp, HR, delerium
◉ Characteristics of histrionic personality disorder?
Answer: Mania, melodramatic, manipulative, emotional attention
seeking behavior, often seductive and flirtatious.
COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAM PREP UPDATED
STUDY GUIDE SOLVED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
◉ What type of environment is a memory care unit?
Answer: Locked unit, 24-7 supervision.
◉ What type of activities do you implement to interact with memory
care patients?
Answer: Activities that help them to recall their past-show old
photos, ask questions like what was your first job? where did you
grow up? what was your parents names?
◉ If a patient is not engaged in a group of people sharing photos
what might they be feeling?
Answer: Depressed, Isolated, Angry
◉ Can a social worker make a decision about placement for an
elderly person if that person has living family members, a POA?
Answer: No, they cannot make the decision. Nurses must educate
family about decisions.
,◉ What does agnosia mean?
Answer: Inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize
things, typically as a result of brain damage.
◉ Example of something that could cause agnosia?
Answer: TBI, vascular dementia.
◉ Characteristics of delirium.
Answer: Rapid in onset, 24-72 hours, related to infection, NOT
common with aging.
◉ What is an important intervention for patients with delirium?
Answer: Reorient them.
◉ What are the primary characteristics of borderline personality
disorder?
Answer: splitting people (Pitting a group against each other). Self-
defeating cycle of behavior.
◉ What do you give a patient who has overdosed on PCP?
Answer: Benzodiazepine
◉ Example of a benzodiazpine antidote?
, Answer: Flumazenil
◉ What type of personality disorder might a patient who still lives at
home at 30 and depends on their mother for everything, have?
Answer: dependent personality disorder
◉ Give an example of a positive statement made by a recovering
alcohol that made signal that they are getting better?
Answer: I will identify things that trigger my cravings
◉ Symptoms of patient with suspected opioid abuse/overdose?
Answer: Contracted pupils, increased HR, shallow Resp., increased
temp (but not always).
◉ What do you give a opioid overdose patient?
Answer: Narcan (Naloxone)
◉ S/S of acute alcohol withdrawal?
Answer: Everything is increased! RR, BP, Temp, HR, delerium
◉ Characteristics of histrionic personality disorder?
Answer: Mania, melodramatic, manipulative, emotional attention
seeking behavior, often seductive and flirtatious.
