NUR2459 Mental Health Questions &
100% Correct Answers-
"Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship
✓ :~~ Summarizing the goals and objectives achieved, discussing ways to
incorporate new coping strategies, reviewing situations that occurred and
exchanging memories
"Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship
✓ :~~ Maintaining the relationship, gathering data, promoting problem solving
skills and self-esteem, facilitate discharge, overcome resistance, evaluate
problems and goals
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
✓ :~~ Theory behind this therapy: Everyone has schemata-unique assumptions
about self, others, and the world around them
What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy?
✓ :~~ A health environment, combined with a healthy social structure within
a inpatient or outpatient setting supporting and treating those with mental
illness
Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship
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✓ :~~ Focus on the patient's problems and concerns encouraging them to find
their own situations, not "being a friend" or meeting the needs of the nurse
Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques
✓ :~~ Reassuring, giving advice, giving approval, disapproving, changing the
subject
What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique?
✓ :~~ "Tell me more about that"
"Would you describe it more fully?"
What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques?
✓ :~~ Paraphrasing, summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication technique?
✓ :~~ "Don't worry everything will be alright", "You'll be fine". "There's nothing
to worry about"
What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique
✓ :~~ Patient: "I wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you mean."
What is affect?
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✓ :~~ Client's emotional display of mood being experienced
What are levels of consciousness?
✓ :~~ Alert, Lethargic, Stuporous
What is "flight of ideas"?
✓ :~~ Rapid changes from one thought to another related thought
What is perseveration?
✓ :~~ Repeating the same words in response to different questions
What is judgement?
✓ :~~ Ability to evaluate choices and make appropriate decisions
What is autonomy?
✓ :~~ Respecting the rights of others to make their own decisions (Big
choices: Do you want CPR? Surgery?. Little choices: What would you like to
take your medicine with?) =CHOICE/SELF DETERMINATION
What are the reasons to use seclusion?
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