NUR2459 MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NURSING
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED 2024/2025 A COMPLETE
EXAM WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS BEST RANKED TO
SCORE A+ FOR PASS
Appearance (observed) - CORRECT ANSWERS Gait, posture, clothes, grooming
Behavior (observed) - CORRECT ANSWERS Mannerisms, gestures, psychomotor activity,
expression, eye contact, ability to follow commands/requests, compulsions
Attitude (observed) - CORRECT ANSWERS Cooperative, hostile, open, secretive, evasive,
suspicious, apathetic, easily distracted, focused, defensive
Level of Consciousness (observed) - CORRECT ANSWERS Vigilant, alert, drowsy, lethargic,
stuporous, asleep, comatose, confused, fluctuating
orientation (inquired) - CORRECT ANSWERS What is your full name?
Where are we at (floor, building, city, county, and state)?
What is the full date today (date, month, year, day of the week, and season of year)?
How would you describe the situation we are in?
Speech and Language (observed) - CORRECT ANSWERS Quantity-talkative, spontaneous,
expansive, paucity, poverty
Rate-fast, slow, normal, pressured
Volume (tone)-loud, soft, monotone, weak, strong
Fluency and Rhythm-slurred speech, with appropriately placed inflections, hesitant, with good
articulation, aphasic
Mood (inquired)
A sustained state of inner feeling - CORRECT ANSWERS How are your spirits?
, NUR2459 MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NURSING
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED 2024/2025 A COMPLETE
EXAM WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS BEST RANKED TO
SCORE A+ FOR PASS
How are you feeling?
Have you been discouraged/depressed/low/blue lately?
Have you been energized/elated/high/out of control lately?
Have you been angry/irritable/edgy lately?
Affect (observed)
An observed expression of inner feeling - CORRECT ANSWERS Appropriateness to situation,
consistency with mood, congruency with thought content.
Fluctuations-labile, even
Range-Broad, restricted
Intensity-Blunted, flat, normal intensity
Quality-sad, angry, hostile, indifferent, euthymic, dysohoric, detached, elated, euphoric,
anxious, animated , irritable.
Thought Processes or Thought Form (inquired/observed)-logical, relevance, organization, flow,
and coherence of thought in response to general questions during the interview - CORRECT
ANSWERS Linear, goal-directed, circumstantial, tangential , loose associations, incoherent,
invasive, racing, blocking, perseveration, neologisms
Thought Content (Inquired/observed)- - CORRECT ANSWERS What do you think about when
you are sad/angry?
What's been on your mind lately?
Do you find yourself ruminating about things?
Are there thoughts or images that you have a really difficult time getting out of your bed?
Are you worried/scared/ frightened about something or other?
Do you have personal beliefs that are not shared by others?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED 2024/2025 A COMPLETE
EXAM WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS BEST RANKED TO
SCORE A+ FOR PASS
Appearance (observed) - CORRECT ANSWERS Gait, posture, clothes, grooming
Behavior (observed) - CORRECT ANSWERS Mannerisms, gestures, psychomotor activity,
expression, eye contact, ability to follow commands/requests, compulsions
Attitude (observed) - CORRECT ANSWERS Cooperative, hostile, open, secretive, evasive,
suspicious, apathetic, easily distracted, focused, defensive
Level of Consciousness (observed) - CORRECT ANSWERS Vigilant, alert, drowsy, lethargic,
stuporous, asleep, comatose, confused, fluctuating
orientation (inquired) - CORRECT ANSWERS What is your full name?
Where are we at (floor, building, city, county, and state)?
What is the full date today (date, month, year, day of the week, and season of year)?
How would you describe the situation we are in?
Speech and Language (observed) - CORRECT ANSWERS Quantity-talkative, spontaneous,
expansive, paucity, poverty
Rate-fast, slow, normal, pressured
Volume (tone)-loud, soft, monotone, weak, strong
Fluency and Rhythm-slurred speech, with appropriately placed inflections, hesitant, with good
articulation, aphasic
Mood (inquired)
A sustained state of inner feeling - CORRECT ANSWERS How are your spirits?
, NUR2459 MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NURSING
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED 2024/2025 A COMPLETE
EXAM WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS BEST RANKED TO
SCORE A+ FOR PASS
How are you feeling?
Have you been discouraged/depressed/low/blue lately?
Have you been energized/elated/high/out of control lately?
Have you been angry/irritable/edgy lately?
Affect (observed)
An observed expression of inner feeling - CORRECT ANSWERS Appropriateness to situation,
consistency with mood, congruency with thought content.
Fluctuations-labile, even
Range-Broad, restricted
Intensity-Blunted, flat, normal intensity
Quality-sad, angry, hostile, indifferent, euthymic, dysohoric, detached, elated, euphoric,
anxious, animated , irritable.
Thought Processes or Thought Form (inquired/observed)-logical, relevance, organization, flow,
and coherence of thought in response to general questions during the interview - CORRECT
ANSWERS Linear, goal-directed, circumstantial, tangential , loose associations, incoherent,
invasive, racing, blocking, perseveration, neologisms
Thought Content (Inquired/observed)- - CORRECT ANSWERS What do you think about when
you are sad/angry?
What's been on your mind lately?
Do you find yourself ruminating about things?
Are there thoughts or images that you have a really difficult time getting out of your bed?
Are you worried/scared/ frightened about something or other?
Do you have personal beliefs that are not shared by others?
