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Maryville University NURS 661 Exam 3
Questions & Answers
1. Who is at highest risk of suicide?
Answer White, elderly men Schizophrenia
Single, never married, divorced, recently widowed
Previous attempts
Adolescents with depression, bullied, or family hx of suicide
2. Who is most likely to succeed at committing suicide?
Answer Older while males
3. What are some protective factors for suicide?
Answer Having children Religion
Stronger alliances with medical providers and therapists
4. What is lethality?
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Answer the probability that a person will successfully complete suicide
5. What is intent?
Answer Effective expectations for desire of active death
6. What is a suicide attempt?
Answer Includes all willful, self-inflicted life-threatening attempts that have not
led to death
7. What is suicidal ideation?
Answer thinking about suicide, usually with some serious emotional and
intellectual or cognitive overtones
8. Where in the brain do we theorize violence and aggression originate?
Answer Pre- frontal cortex
9. How to assess for homicidal ideation?
Answer Do you have homicidal ideation? Who do you want to kill? How do you plan
to do this? Do you have access to the means necessary? Do you intend to commit the
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act?
10. What legal follow up is needed for homicidal ideation?
Answer Duty to warn Based on state laws
11. Obsession
Answer 1. Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced,
at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted, and that in most
individuals cause marked anxiety or distress
2. The individual attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, urges, or images, or to
neutralize them with some other thought or action (i.e. by performing a compulsion)
12. Compulsion
Answer 1. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the individual feels driven to
perform in response to an obsession or according to rules that must be applied
rigidly
2. The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing anxiety or
distress, or preventing some dreaded event or situation, however, these behaviors or
mental acts are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to
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neutralize or prevent, or are clearly excessive
13. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Answer A. Presence of obsessions, compul- sions, or both
B.The obsessions or compulsions are time-consuming (e.g.take more than one hour per
day) or cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational,
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Maryville University NURS 661 Exam 3
Questions & Answers
1. Who is at highest risk of suicide?
Answer White, elderly men Schizophrenia
Single, never married, divorced, recently widowed
Previous attempts
Adolescents with depression, bullied, or family hx of suicide
2. Who is most likely to succeed at committing suicide?
Answer Older while males
3. What are some protective factors for suicide?
Answer Having children Religion
Stronger alliances with medical providers and therapists
4. What is lethality?
1 of 32 12/10/2024, 11:59
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Answer the probability that a person will successfully complete suicide
5. What is intent?
Answer Effective expectations for desire of active death
6. What is a suicide attempt?
Answer Includes all willful, self-inflicted life-threatening attempts that have not
led to death
7. What is suicidal ideation?
Answer thinking about suicide, usually with some serious emotional and
intellectual or cognitive overtones
8. Where in the brain do we theorize violence and aggression originate?
Answer Pre- frontal cortex
9. How to assess for homicidal ideation?
Answer Do you have homicidal ideation? Who do you want to kill? How do you plan
to do this? Do you have access to the means necessary? Do you intend to commit the
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act?
10. What legal follow up is needed for homicidal ideation?
Answer Duty to warn Based on state laws
11. Obsession
Answer 1. Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced,
at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted, and that in most
individuals cause marked anxiety or distress
2. The individual attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, urges, or images, or to
neutralize them with some other thought or action (i.e. by performing a compulsion)
12. Compulsion
Answer 1. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the individual feels driven to
perform in response to an obsession or according to rules that must be applied
rigidly
2. The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing anxiety or
distress, or preventing some dreaded event or situation, however, these behaviors or
mental acts are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to
3 of 32 12/10/2024, 11:59
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neutralize or prevent, or are clearly excessive
13. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Answer A. Presence of obsessions, compul- sions, or both
B.The obsessions or compulsions are time-consuming (e.g.take more than one hour per
day) or cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational,
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