Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Exam
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What is psychiatric mental health nursing and its main focus? - Answer-A core mental health profession
that employs a purposeful use of self as its art and a wide range of nursing, psychosocial, and
neurobiological theories and research evidence as its science. (ANA, 2007, p.1). Its focus is the treatment
of human responses to mental health problems and psychiatric disorders.
Recovering from a mental illness is viewed as a personal journey of healing. What is the goal of
recovery? - Answer-Is to empower those with mental illness to find meaning and satisfaction in their
lives, realize personal potential, and function at their optimal level of independence.
Describe the difference between the nurse-patient relationship and the nurse-patient partnership: -
Answer-nurse-patient relationship suggests an unequal status with the nurse/health care worker as the
person in authority. The nurse-patient partnership is more in line with the emphasis on "relationships"
in the recovery model.
In a survey on caring in 1998, emerged 3 themes. Explain all 3: - Answer-Caring is evidenced by
empathic understanding, actions, and patience on another's behalf. Caring for one another by actions,
words, and being there leads to happiness and touches the heart. Caring is giving of self while preserving
the importance of self.
, What is a patient advocate? And what is not? - Answer-Someone who speaks up for another's cause,
who helps others by defending and comforting them, especially when the other person lacks knowledge,
skills, ability, or status to speak for himself/herself. It is NOT a legal role but rather an ethical one.
What is the DSM-5? - Answer-Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 5th addition was
released in May 2013.
What is mental illness? - Answer-It is medical conditions that affect a person's thinking, feeling, mood,
ability to relate to others, and daily functioning. It includes flawed biological, psychological, social, and
cultural processes.
Euthymia - Answer-A normal mood state.
Looseness of association - Answer-A pattern of thinking that is haphazard, illogical, and confused, and in
which connections in thought are interrupted; it is seen primarily in schizophrenic disorders.
Anorexia - Answer-A medical term that signifies a loss of appetite.
Pressure of speech - Answer-A speech pattern characterized by forceful energy manifested in frantic,
jumbled speech as when a manic individual struggles to keep pace with racing thoughts.
Echolalia - Answer-Mimicry or imitation of the speech of another person.
Insight - Answer-Understanding and awareness of the reasons for and meaning behind one's motives
and behavior.
Perseveration - Answer-The involuntary repetition of the same thought, phrase, or motor response (e.g.
brushing teeth, walking); it is associated with brain damage.
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What is psychiatric mental health nursing and its main focus? - Answer-A core mental health profession
that employs a purposeful use of self as its art and a wide range of nursing, psychosocial, and
neurobiological theories and research evidence as its science. (ANA, 2007, p.1). Its focus is the treatment
of human responses to mental health problems and psychiatric disorders.
Recovering from a mental illness is viewed as a personal journey of healing. What is the goal of
recovery? - Answer-Is to empower those with mental illness to find meaning and satisfaction in their
lives, realize personal potential, and function at their optimal level of independence.
Describe the difference between the nurse-patient relationship and the nurse-patient partnership: -
Answer-nurse-patient relationship suggests an unequal status with the nurse/health care worker as the
person in authority. The nurse-patient partnership is more in line with the emphasis on "relationships"
in the recovery model.
In a survey on caring in 1998, emerged 3 themes. Explain all 3: - Answer-Caring is evidenced by
empathic understanding, actions, and patience on another's behalf. Caring for one another by actions,
words, and being there leads to happiness and touches the heart. Caring is giving of self while preserving
the importance of self.
, What is a patient advocate? And what is not? - Answer-Someone who speaks up for another's cause,
who helps others by defending and comforting them, especially when the other person lacks knowledge,
skills, ability, or status to speak for himself/herself. It is NOT a legal role but rather an ethical one.
What is the DSM-5? - Answer-Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 5th addition was
released in May 2013.
What is mental illness? - Answer-It is medical conditions that affect a person's thinking, feeling, mood,
ability to relate to others, and daily functioning. It includes flawed biological, psychological, social, and
cultural processes.
Euthymia - Answer-A normal mood state.
Looseness of association - Answer-A pattern of thinking that is haphazard, illogical, and confused, and in
which connections in thought are interrupted; it is seen primarily in schizophrenic disorders.
Anorexia - Answer-A medical term that signifies a loss of appetite.
Pressure of speech - Answer-A speech pattern characterized by forceful energy manifested in frantic,
jumbled speech as when a manic individual struggles to keep pace with racing thoughts.
Echolalia - Answer-Mimicry or imitation of the speech of another person.
Insight - Answer-Understanding and awareness of the reasons for and meaning behind one's motives
and behavior.
Perseveration - Answer-The involuntary repetition of the same thought, phrase, or motor response (e.g.
brushing teeth, walking); it is associated with brain damage.
