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NSG 3450 / NSG3450 E XAM 1: (NEW 2025/
2026 UPDATE) NURSING PRACTICE - MENTAL
HEALTH REVIEW| QUESTIONS & ANSWERS| GRADE A|
100% CORRECT (VERIFIED SOLUTIONS)- GALEN
1. Interferes developmentally, biologically , or
psychologically
Impairs ability to think, regulate emotions and manage
behaviors
Definable diagnoses: Mental illness
2. DSM-V: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Use it to assess patients with psychiatric disorders
3. mental health continuum: A conceptual line used to
represent levels of mental health and mental illness that vary
from person to person and vary for a particular person over
time.
4. Can mental health disorders be almost genetic?: Yes
5. Protective factors: Enhance the likelihood of
positiveoutcomes and lessen the likelihood ofnegative
consequences from exposure torisk.
6. Risk factors: Risk factors lower likelihood of positive
outcomes andincrease the likelihood of negative outcome
7. Diathesis: biological predisposition
most accepted explanation for mental illness
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8. Mental Health Parity Act: forbids health plans from placing
lifetime or annual limits on mental health coverage that are
less generous than those placed on medical or surgical
benefits
9. Freud believes that mental illness derives from: childhood
trauma
10. primitive part of personality present at birth, impulsive
Kinda like a baby
selfish: ID
11. part has been modified by external influences,mediates,
decision maker
guilt: Ego
12. develops around ages 3-5 ,moral aspect ofthe personality,
controls id's impulses.
The "shoulds" a person has: Super ego
13. unconscious feelings a patient has towards a healthcare
worker connectedto a significant relationship in
childhood: Transference
14. unconscious feelings healthcare provider has towards
patients connected a significant relationship. Be aware of
strong reactions to patient: Countertransference
15. Peplau's Theory: develop interaction between nurse and
patient. (ex. nurse facilitates interpersonal relationships)
First nurse theorist to identify the nurse-patient relationship as the
foundation of nursing practice.
Not what but with we do to the patient but with the patient
16. Phases of Paplau's model: Pre-orientation phase: Patient
assignmentand review of the medical record.
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NSG
NSG 3450 / NSG3450 E XAM 1: (NEW 2025/
2026 UPDATE) NURSING PRACTICE - MENTAL
HEALTH REVIEW| QUESTIONS & ANSWERS| GRADE A|
100% CORRECT (VERIFIED SOLUTIONS)- GALEN
1. Interferes developmentally, biologically , or
psychologically
Impairs ability to think, regulate emotions and manage
behaviors
Definable diagnoses: Mental illness
2. DSM-V: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Use it to assess patients with psychiatric disorders
3. mental health continuum: A conceptual line used to
represent levels of mental health and mental illness that vary
from person to person and vary for a particular person over
time.
4. Can mental health disorders be almost genetic?: Yes
5. Protective factors: Enhance the likelihood of
positiveoutcomes and lessen the likelihood ofnegative
consequences from exposure torisk.
6. Risk factors: Risk factors lower likelihood of positive
outcomes andincrease the likelihood of negative outcome
7. Diathesis: biological predisposition
most accepted explanation for mental illness
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8. Mental Health Parity Act: forbids health plans from placing
lifetime or annual limits on mental health coverage that are
less generous than those placed on medical or surgical
benefits
9. Freud believes that mental illness derives from: childhood
trauma
10. primitive part of personality present at birth, impulsive
Kinda like a baby
selfish: ID
11. part has been modified by external influences,mediates,
decision maker
guilt: Ego
12. develops around ages 3-5 ,moral aspect ofthe personality,
controls id's impulses.
The "shoulds" a person has: Super ego
13. unconscious feelings a patient has towards a healthcare
worker connectedto a significant relationship in
childhood: Transference
14. unconscious feelings healthcare provider has towards
patients connected a significant relationship. Be aware of
strong reactions to patient: Countertransference
15. Peplau's Theory: develop interaction between nurse and
patient. (ex. nurse facilitates interpersonal relationships)
First nurse theorist to identify the nurse-patient relationship as the
foundation of nursing practice.
Not what but with we do to the patient but with the patient
16. Phases of Paplau's model: Pre-orientation phase: Patient
assignmentand review of the medical record.
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