NUR2459 Mental Health Exam 2 questions with
verified answers
Anticonvulsants: Ans✓✓✓ Valproic acid (Depakote)
Atypical (second-generation) antipsychotics Ans✓✓✓ Target positive
and negative symptoms. Atypical agents have fewer side effects.
Atypical agents treat anxiety, depression, and decrease suicidal
behavior.
Being controlled Ans✓✓✓ Believe that a force outside their body
controls them
Causes of Delirium Ans✓✓✓ - surgery
- drugs
- urinary tract infections (UTIs)
- pneumonia, cerebrovascular disease
- congestive heart failure (CHF)
* THINK- Toxins, Hypoxemia, Infection, Non-pharamalogical, K-
electrolytes, potassium.
Causes of Dementia Ans✓✓✓ - Cerebral atrophy
- Neurofibrillary tangles
- Neuritic plaques
, - Genetics
Clang association Ans✓✓✓ Meaningless rhyming words , often forceful
, such as , OX , fox, box, and lox.
Conventional (first-generation) antipsychotics Ans✓✓✓ Target positive
symptoms of Schizophrenia
Echolalia Ans✓✓✓ Repeats words spoken to them
EPS symptoms: Ans✓✓✓ Pseudoparkinsonism- dopamine receptors
are being blocked.
Akinesia- musclular weakness.
Akathesia- restlessness or the urgent need for movement.
Dystonia- involuntary movements of the face, arms, legs and neck.
Oculogyric crisis- involuntary deviation and fixation of the eyeballs,
usually upward.
Flight of ideas Ans✓✓✓ Associative loose thoughts. The client repeats
sentences, each sentence relates to another topic
Grandeur Ans✓✓✓ Believe that they are all powerful and important,
like a god
verified answers
Anticonvulsants: Ans✓✓✓ Valproic acid (Depakote)
Atypical (second-generation) antipsychotics Ans✓✓✓ Target positive
and negative symptoms. Atypical agents have fewer side effects.
Atypical agents treat anxiety, depression, and decrease suicidal
behavior.
Being controlled Ans✓✓✓ Believe that a force outside their body
controls them
Causes of Delirium Ans✓✓✓ - surgery
- drugs
- urinary tract infections (UTIs)
- pneumonia, cerebrovascular disease
- congestive heart failure (CHF)
* THINK- Toxins, Hypoxemia, Infection, Non-pharamalogical, K-
electrolytes, potassium.
Causes of Dementia Ans✓✓✓ - Cerebral atrophy
- Neurofibrillary tangles
- Neuritic plaques
, - Genetics
Clang association Ans✓✓✓ Meaningless rhyming words , often forceful
, such as , OX , fox, box, and lox.
Conventional (first-generation) antipsychotics Ans✓✓✓ Target positive
symptoms of Schizophrenia
Echolalia Ans✓✓✓ Repeats words spoken to them
EPS symptoms: Ans✓✓✓ Pseudoparkinsonism- dopamine receptors
are being blocked.
Akinesia- musclular weakness.
Akathesia- restlessness or the urgent need for movement.
Dystonia- involuntary movements of the face, arms, legs and neck.
Oculogyric crisis- involuntary deviation and fixation of the eyeballs,
usually upward.
Flight of ideas Ans✓✓✓ Associative loose thoughts. The client repeats
sentences, each sentence relates to another topic
Grandeur Ans✓✓✓ Believe that they are all powerful and important,
like a god
