RNSG -1128 Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers Fully Solved
Acute Grief - Answers Begins immediately after the death of a loved one and includes the separation
response and response to stress.
Agoraphobia - Answers Severe anxiety and fear
Anxiety - Answers A vague uneasy feeling of discomfort or dread, an emotional response to a treat. The
source is often nonspecific or unknown. It is a feeling of apprehension caused by anticipating danger.
Compassion Fatigue - Answers A state of chromic and continuous self-sacrifice and/or prolonged
exposure to difficult situations that affect a health care professional's physical, emotional and spiritual
well-being.
Coping - Answers An ever-changing process involving cognitive means and behavioral actions to manage
internal and/or external situations that are perceived as difficult and/or beyond the individual's current
resources.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) - Answers Excessive uncontrolled worries most days causing sleep
disturbances, irritability, fatigue and restlessness for at least 6 mos.
Grief - Answers The emotional response to a loss, defined as the individualized and personalized feelings
and responses that an individual makes to real, perceived or anticipated loss.
Maladaptive Coping - Answers Ways a person uses to attempt to reduce their stress or anxiety, but in an
ineffective, unhealthy way.
Perceived Controllability - Answers When someone believes or is heavily influenced by his or her culture,
that in general, personal action controls outcomes. A situation itself may or may not be perceived as
stressful, depending on one's culture, and the response to an event is often culturally based.
Psychosomatic Symptoms - Answers Clients who do not cope well with stress or emotions develop
physical symptoms that are real as a means of coping.
Selective Mutism - Answers Anxiety disorder characterized by a person's inability to speak in certain
social settings such as at a school, work or in a community although they may speak freely at home.
There is a high level of social anxiety or phobia in these situations.
Separation anxiety disorder - Answers Occurs in children younger than 18, but an also have adulty onset.
When someone becomes very anxious or worried when left alone by clinging to someone they trust or
have physical complaints for more than 4 weeks in children and longer than 6 months in adults.
Social Anxiety Disorder - Answers Fear of being negatively judged at social performances or situations.
Systemic Desensitization - Answers The patient is exposed to progressively more anxiety-provoking
stimuli and taught relaxation techniques.
, Therapeutic Communication - Answers The exchange of verbal and non-verbal interactions between
healthcare providers and clin for a goal-directed purpose.
Disenfranchised Grief - Answers hidden grief, not socially acceptable to grieve about. Ex: loss of
pregnancy.
Normal Grief - Answers Most common, feel all the feels and can carry on.
Complicated Grief - Answers Sudden or traumatic loss, more intense and lasts longer.
Anticipatory Grief - Answers Felt before a loss or death - living out the last days when anticipating loss.
Diffusion - Answers The movement of solute particles from an area of higher concentration to an area of
lower concentration.
Edema - Answers Swelling caused by excessive interstitial fluid retention.
Extracellular Fluids (ECF) - Answers Fluids found outside cells in the intravascular or interstitial space.
Filtration - Answers Movement of water and solutes occurs from an area of high hydrostatic pressure to
an area of low hydrostatic pressure.
Hydrostatic pressure - Answers The force exerted by a fluid against the container wall.
Hypovolemia - Answers Intravascular fluid loss. Used interchangeably with "deficient fluid volume" and
"dehydration."
Interstitial Fluids - Answers Fluids found between the cells and outside of the vascular system.
Intercellular Fluids (ICF) - Answers Fluids found within the cells consisting of protein, water, and
electrolytes which constitutes about 40% of the total body water.
Intravascular Fluids - Answers Fluids found int eh vascular system consisting of the body's arteries, veins
and capillary networks.
Necrosis - Answers Tissue death
Oncotic pressure - Answers Pressure inside the vascular compartment created by protein content of the
blood that holds water inside the blood vessels.
Osmosis - Answers Movement of fluid through a semipermeable memebrane from an area of lesser
solute concentration to an area of greater solute concentration.
Passive Transport - Answers Movement of fluids or solutes down a concentration gradient where no
energy is used during the process.
Phlebitis - Answers Inflammation of a vein
Acute Grief - Answers Begins immediately after the death of a loved one and includes the separation
response and response to stress.
Agoraphobia - Answers Severe anxiety and fear
Anxiety - Answers A vague uneasy feeling of discomfort or dread, an emotional response to a treat. The
source is often nonspecific or unknown. It is a feeling of apprehension caused by anticipating danger.
Compassion Fatigue - Answers A state of chromic and continuous self-sacrifice and/or prolonged
exposure to difficult situations that affect a health care professional's physical, emotional and spiritual
well-being.
Coping - Answers An ever-changing process involving cognitive means and behavioral actions to manage
internal and/or external situations that are perceived as difficult and/or beyond the individual's current
resources.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) - Answers Excessive uncontrolled worries most days causing sleep
disturbances, irritability, fatigue and restlessness for at least 6 mos.
Grief - Answers The emotional response to a loss, defined as the individualized and personalized feelings
and responses that an individual makes to real, perceived or anticipated loss.
Maladaptive Coping - Answers Ways a person uses to attempt to reduce their stress or anxiety, but in an
ineffective, unhealthy way.
Perceived Controllability - Answers When someone believes or is heavily influenced by his or her culture,
that in general, personal action controls outcomes. A situation itself may or may not be perceived as
stressful, depending on one's culture, and the response to an event is often culturally based.
Psychosomatic Symptoms - Answers Clients who do not cope well with stress or emotions develop
physical symptoms that are real as a means of coping.
Selective Mutism - Answers Anxiety disorder characterized by a person's inability to speak in certain
social settings such as at a school, work or in a community although they may speak freely at home.
There is a high level of social anxiety or phobia in these situations.
Separation anxiety disorder - Answers Occurs in children younger than 18, but an also have adulty onset.
When someone becomes very anxious or worried when left alone by clinging to someone they trust or
have physical complaints for more than 4 weeks in children and longer than 6 months in adults.
Social Anxiety Disorder - Answers Fear of being negatively judged at social performances or situations.
Systemic Desensitization - Answers The patient is exposed to progressively more anxiety-provoking
stimuli and taught relaxation techniques.
, Therapeutic Communication - Answers The exchange of verbal and non-verbal interactions between
healthcare providers and clin for a goal-directed purpose.
Disenfranchised Grief - Answers hidden grief, not socially acceptable to grieve about. Ex: loss of
pregnancy.
Normal Grief - Answers Most common, feel all the feels and can carry on.
Complicated Grief - Answers Sudden or traumatic loss, more intense and lasts longer.
Anticipatory Grief - Answers Felt before a loss or death - living out the last days when anticipating loss.
Diffusion - Answers The movement of solute particles from an area of higher concentration to an area of
lower concentration.
Edema - Answers Swelling caused by excessive interstitial fluid retention.
Extracellular Fluids (ECF) - Answers Fluids found outside cells in the intravascular or interstitial space.
Filtration - Answers Movement of water and solutes occurs from an area of high hydrostatic pressure to
an area of low hydrostatic pressure.
Hydrostatic pressure - Answers The force exerted by a fluid against the container wall.
Hypovolemia - Answers Intravascular fluid loss. Used interchangeably with "deficient fluid volume" and
"dehydration."
Interstitial Fluids - Answers Fluids found between the cells and outside of the vascular system.
Intercellular Fluids (ICF) - Answers Fluids found within the cells consisting of protein, water, and
electrolytes which constitutes about 40% of the total body water.
Intravascular Fluids - Answers Fluids found int eh vascular system consisting of the body's arteries, veins
and capillary networks.
Necrosis - Answers Tissue death
Oncotic pressure - Answers Pressure inside the vascular compartment created by protein content of the
blood that holds water inside the blood vessels.
Osmosis - Answers Movement of fluid through a semipermeable memebrane from an area of lesser
solute concentration to an area of greater solute concentration.
Passive Transport - Answers Movement of fluids or solutes down a concentration gradient where no
energy is used during the process.
Phlebitis - Answers Inflammation of a vein
