NUR2459 Mental and Behavioral Health Nursing
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS (2025) ALREADY GRADED A+
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Appearance (observed) Gait, posture, clothes, grooming
Mannerisms, gestures, psychomotor activity,
Behavior (observed) expression, eye contact, ability to follow
commands/requests, compulsions
Cooperative, hostile, open, secretive, evasive,
Attitude (observed) suspicious, apathetic, easily distracted, focused,
defensive
Level of Consciousness Vigilant, alert, drowsy, lethargic, stuporous, asleep,
(observed) comatose, confused, fluctuating
What is your full name?
Where are we at (floor, building, city, county, and
state)?
orientation (inquired)
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?
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Quantity-talkative, spontaneous, expansive, paucity,
poverty
Rate-fast, slow, normal, pressured
Speech and Language
Volume (tone)-loud, soft, monotone, weak, strong
(observed)
Fluency and Rhythm-slurred speech, with
appropriately placed inflections, hesitant, with good
articulation, aphasic
How are your spirits?
How are you feeling?
Mood (inquired) Have you been discouraged/depressed/low/blue
A sustained state of inner lately?
feeling Have you been energized/elated/high/out of control
lately?
Have you been angry/irritable/edgy lately?
Appropriateness to situation, consistency with mood,
congruency with thought content.
Fluctuations-labile, even
Affect (observed)
Range-Broad, restricted
An observed expression
Intensity-Blunted, flat, normal intensity
of inner feeling
Quality-sad, angry, hostile, indifferent, euthymic,
dysohoric, detached, elated, euphoric, anxious,
animated , irritable.
Thought Processes or Linear, goal-directed, circumstantial, tangential , loose
Thought Form associations, incoherent, invasive, racing, blocking,
(inquired/observed)- perseveration, neologisms
logical, relevance,
organization, flow, and
coherence of thought in
response to general
questions during the
interview
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