Exam 1: NUR253/ NUR 253 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Mental Health Nursing | Complete Guide with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A – Galen
Exam 1: NUR253/ NUR 253 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Mental Health Nursing | Complete Guide with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A – Galen Q: Important not to stereotype older adults and expect them to be physically and mentally deficient Q: the nurse needs to evaluate physical limitations, like - older adults Answer: sensory, motor, or medical. Q: MSE mental status examination Answer: fundamental to the psychiatric- mental health nursing assessment is a Q: What does objective data refer to in nursing? Answer: Objective data refers to all things that the nurse observes or are verified through tests. Q: Give examples of objective data related to vital signs. Answer: Examples of objective data related to vital signs include BP, HR, O2 SAT, HT, WT, and TEMP. Q: What are examples of objective data related to a patient's mental status? Answer: Examples of objective data related to a patient's mental status include LOC, physical behavior, nonverbal communication, appearance, speech patterns, mood and affect, cognitive ability, insight, and judgment. Q: What is the purpose of psychological assessment? Answer: To provide additional information from which a plan of care is developed Q: What is the term for the main reason for seeking psychological assessment? Answer: Chief complaint Q: How should the chief complaint be documented? Answer: Verbatim and in the patient's own words Q: psychological history is the Answer: subjective part of the assessment Q: subjective data refers to all Answer: information that you gather from a pt and from people who may accompany the patient Q: the focus of the history is the Answer: patients perceptions and recollections of current lifestyle and life in general Q: MSE is based of Answer: appearance, behavior, speech, mood, disorders of the form of thought, perceptual disturbances, cognition, and ideas of harming self or others Q: ideas of harming self or others Suicidal or homicidal history and current thoughts • Presence of a plan • Means to carry out the plan • Opportunity to carry out the plan
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