What are the main risk factors for suicide?
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Family history, psychiatric illness, medical illness, life stressors, substance
use/abuse, personality disorder/traits, suicidal behaviour, psychosocial
vulnerability, and hopelessness.
,A mental health nurse assess a newly admitted patient diagnosed with Alzheimer's
disease and a urinary tract infection. The nurse asks the patient's son for information
about the home environment, ADLs, and medications. What type of information
source is the son?
a. Primary
b. Secondary
c. Private
d. Informed
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b. Secondary
What is conversion disorder?
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A mental condition in which a person has blindness, paralysis, or other
nervous system (neurologic) symptoms that cannot be explained by
medical evaluation.
Dysthymia cannot be diagnosed unless it has existed for how long?
a. At least 3 months
b. At least 6 months
c. At least 1 year
d. At least 2 years
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, d. At least 2 years
*Dysthymia is a mood or affective disorder. It is a chronic, mild depression
that lasts for a long period of time. The word dysthymia comes from Greek
roots meaning "ill-humour." Dysthymic disorder has less of the mental and
physical symptoms that a person with major depressive disorder
experiences.
What is trauma-informed care?
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An approach that asks: "What happened to you?" as opposed to "What is
wrong with you?" It is a more holistic approach to care to help recovery
and prevent future trauma.
Which of the following is an example of a somatic symptom disorder?
a. Depersonalization
b. Dissociative fugue
c. Conversion disorder
d. Dissociative identity disorder
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c. Conversion disorder
Which is the greatest protective factor against the risk of suicide?
a. One or more previous suicide attempts
, b. A sense of responsibility to family, including spouse and children
c. Fear of dying
d. A cultural belief that suicide is a shameful resolution for a dilemma
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b. A sense of responsibility to family, including spouse and children
What is dementia?
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Changes in insight and judgment, language processing and expression, and
perceptions
What does the recovery model stress?
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Hope, strengths, quality of life, patient involvement as an active partner in
treatment, and eventual recovery.
What are the four dimensions that support life in recovery?
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Health, home, purpose, and community
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Family history, psychiatric illness, medical illness, life stressors, substance
use/abuse, personality disorder/traits, suicidal behaviour, psychosocial
vulnerability, and hopelessness.
,A mental health nurse assess a newly admitted patient diagnosed with Alzheimer's
disease and a urinary tract infection. The nurse asks the patient's son for information
about the home environment, ADLs, and medications. What type of information
source is the son?
a. Primary
b. Secondary
c. Private
d. Informed
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b. Secondary
What is conversion disorder?
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A mental condition in which a person has blindness, paralysis, or other
nervous system (neurologic) symptoms that cannot be explained by
medical evaluation.
Dysthymia cannot be diagnosed unless it has existed for how long?
a. At least 3 months
b. At least 6 months
c. At least 1 year
d. At least 2 years
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, d. At least 2 years
*Dysthymia is a mood or affective disorder. It is a chronic, mild depression
that lasts for a long period of time. The word dysthymia comes from Greek
roots meaning "ill-humour." Dysthymic disorder has less of the mental and
physical symptoms that a person with major depressive disorder
experiences.
What is trauma-informed care?
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An approach that asks: "What happened to you?" as opposed to "What is
wrong with you?" It is a more holistic approach to care to help recovery
and prevent future trauma.
Which of the following is an example of a somatic symptom disorder?
a. Depersonalization
b. Dissociative fugue
c. Conversion disorder
d. Dissociative identity disorder
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c. Conversion disorder
Which is the greatest protective factor against the risk of suicide?
a. One or more previous suicide attempts
, b. A sense of responsibility to family, including spouse and children
c. Fear of dying
d. A cultural belief that suicide is a shameful resolution for a dilemma
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b. A sense of responsibility to family, including spouse and children
What is dementia?
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Changes in insight and judgment, language processing and expression, and
perceptions
What does the recovery model stress?
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Hope, strengths, quality of life, patient involvement as an active partner in
treatment, and eventual recovery.
What are the four dimensions that support life in recovery?
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Health, home, purpose, and community
