NR605 MIDTERM UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT WITH
COMPLETE ANSWERS
◉ What is the Holistic Model of Care?
Answer: Emphasizes treating the person as a whole. Includes
emotional well-being/social factor/spiritual health. Supports
patient-centered approaches and long-term wellness
◉ What are specific psychotherapy techniques?
Answer: Active listening
Emotional connection
Empathy
Fostering trust
◉ What is active listening?
Answer: Demonstrating full attention to clients by paraphrasing and
summarizing their concerns
◉ What is emotional connection?
Answer: Establishing rapport through empathy and genuine
understanding?
,◉ What is demonstrating empathy?
Answer: Validating emotions to help clients feel seen and heard
◉ What is fostering trust?
Answer: Maintaining confidentiality and consistency in interactions?
◉ What does resilience mean?
Answer: The ability of an individual, family, or community to cope
with adversity and trauma, and adapt to challenges through
individual physical, emotional, and spiritual attributes, and access to
cultural and social resources
◉ What are stabilization strategies?
Answer: Techniques like grounding exercises, mindfulness, and
relaxation techniques. Aim to reduce emotional distress and ensure
the client feels secure.
◉ What are the Peplau's Roles?
Answer: Stranger
Resource
Teacher
Counselor
Surrogate
,Leader
◉ Peplau's Roles: Stranger
Answer: The nurse offers a welcoming environment to build initial
rapport; creates an environment to built trust
◉ Peplau's Roles: Resource
Answer: The nurse acts an an information source for the patient's
needs and treatment; provides specific information needed by the
client, answers questions, and interprets clinical data
◉ Peplau's Roles: Teacher
Answer: The nurse provides education about mental health topics or
coping strategies; imparts relevant knowledge and provides
instructions and training
◉ Peplau's Roles: Counselor
Answer: The nurse listens actively and provides emotional support;
helps the client understand and integrate meaning into life's
circumstances, provides guidance and encouragement for change
◉ Peplau's Roles: Surrogate
, Answer: The nurse steps into roles that the patient cannot manage
themselves temporarily; helps clarify domains of dependence,
interdependence, and independence (acts as an advocate)
◉ Peplau's Roles: Leader
Answer: The nurse guides collaborative decision-making and helps
set achievable goals; helps the client take maximum responsibility
for meeting treatment goals
◉ What is the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
Answer: Basic needs (safety, food) precede higher-level needs (self-
actualization)
◉ What is in the bottom of the pyramid (most important) in
Maslow's?
Answer: Physiological (air, food, water, shelter, clothing, sleep)
◉ What is in the 4th spot of the pyramid in Maslow's?
Answer: Safety (security of body, of employment, of resources, of
morality, of the family, of health, and of property)
◉ What is in the 3rd spot of the pyramid in Maslow's?
Answer: Love/Belonging (friendship, family, intimacy, sense of
connection with others)
COMPLETE ANSWERS
◉ What is the Holistic Model of Care?
Answer: Emphasizes treating the person as a whole. Includes
emotional well-being/social factor/spiritual health. Supports
patient-centered approaches and long-term wellness
◉ What are specific psychotherapy techniques?
Answer: Active listening
Emotional connection
Empathy
Fostering trust
◉ What is active listening?
Answer: Demonstrating full attention to clients by paraphrasing and
summarizing their concerns
◉ What is emotional connection?
Answer: Establishing rapport through empathy and genuine
understanding?
,◉ What is demonstrating empathy?
Answer: Validating emotions to help clients feel seen and heard
◉ What is fostering trust?
Answer: Maintaining confidentiality and consistency in interactions?
◉ What does resilience mean?
Answer: The ability of an individual, family, or community to cope
with adversity and trauma, and adapt to challenges through
individual physical, emotional, and spiritual attributes, and access to
cultural and social resources
◉ What are stabilization strategies?
Answer: Techniques like grounding exercises, mindfulness, and
relaxation techniques. Aim to reduce emotional distress and ensure
the client feels secure.
◉ What are the Peplau's Roles?
Answer: Stranger
Resource
Teacher
Counselor
Surrogate
,Leader
◉ Peplau's Roles: Stranger
Answer: The nurse offers a welcoming environment to build initial
rapport; creates an environment to built trust
◉ Peplau's Roles: Resource
Answer: The nurse acts an an information source for the patient's
needs and treatment; provides specific information needed by the
client, answers questions, and interprets clinical data
◉ Peplau's Roles: Teacher
Answer: The nurse provides education about mental health topics or
coping strategies; imparts relevant knowledge and provides
instructions and training
◉ Peplau's Roles: Counselor
Answer: The nurse listens actively and provides emotional support;
helps the client understand and integrate meaning into life's
circumstances, provides guidance and encouragement for change
◉ Peplau's Roles: Surrogate
, Answer: The nurse steps into roles that the patient cannot manage
themselves temporarily; helps clarify domains of dependence,
interdependence, and independence (acts as an advocate)
◉ Peplau's Roles: Leader
Answer: The nurse guides collaborative decision-making and helps
set achievable goals; helps the client take maximum responsibility
for meeting treatment goals
◉ What is the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
Answer: Basic needs (safety, food) precede higher-level needs (self-
actualization)
◉ What is in the bottom of the pyramid (most important) in
Maslow's?
Answer: Physiological (air, food, water, shelter, clothing, sleep)
◉ What is in the 4th spot of the pyramid in Maslow's?
Answer: Safety (security of body, of employment, of resources, of
morality, of the family, of health, and of property)
◉ What is in the 3rd spot of the pyramid in Maslow's?
Answer: Love/Belonging (friendship, family, intimacy, sense of
connection with others)
