NFDN 2007 Mental Health Nursing Midterm
Practice Questions and Answers
1. what was the Mental health act
insanity act
changed to?
2. What is mental a state of well-being
health Being content with life
3. mental illness Diagnosable disorder of thought, mood, or behavior that causes distress or
impaired functioning
4. The purpose of descriptions of the symptoms associated with categories of disorders
the DSM-5 is to
provide
5. Risk factors for Poverty
mental health Family conflict or violence
Neglect early in childhood
Having a parent with substance abuse problem
Living in inadequate housing
6. Religious and Coping with illness
spiritual beliefs Improving quality of life
can play a role in? Sustaining recovery
7. what is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
DSM-5?
8. Mental health act Provincial statue
Updated from the insanity act
Protects the rights of patients
9. MHA admission Person has a mental disorder,
criteria Is likely to cause harm to self or others or to sutter substantial mental or physical
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Practice Questions and Answers
deterioration or serious physical impairment,
Is unsuitable for admission to a facility other than as a formal patient
10. How long is the 24 hours
first admission
certificate good
for?
11. After 24 hours, Treat the client as voluntary
what can occur? Discharge the client - condition is resolved
Issue a 2nd admission certificate - can hold the client up to 30 days
12. What does the Aæ dmission certificates
mental health act Jæ
u d g e s warrant for apprehension
consist of? Pæo lice Oflcer's power
Ræeview panel
Tæreatment orders
Cæontrol
Pæatient's rights
13. What is manda- Treatment in the community if you do not comply you must go back to a facility
tory outpatient
treatment? MOT
14. Community Form of mandatory outpatient treatment
treatment order? Issued for people with severe mental health concerns
CTO
15. Ethical Principles Integrity
Veracity
Fidelity
Non maleficence
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Practice Questions and Answers
Autonomy
Justice
16. First Nations Came into play to replace the word Indian
17. Indian Collectively describes all indigenous people in Canada who are not metis or Inuit
18. Inuit Aboriginal people in northern Canada
19. Metis People of mixed Native American and French Canadian descent
20. Colonialism Institutionalized
Political domination of one nation over another
21. Assimilation Government policy to "Canadianize" aboriginal peoples
22. historical trauma Cumulative emotional and psychological wounding over the lifespan
23. Residential Institutions that were part of the assimilative policies that the Canadian govern-
Schools ment directed at aboriginal peoples from the 1880s onward.
24. Inter genera- the transmission of historical oppression and its negative consequences across
tional trauma generations
25. collective trauma An entire community's reaction to a crisis
26. stigma Negative, discriminatory and rejecting attitudes and behaviour toward a charac-
teristic or element exhibited by group
27. Prejudice preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
28. Sterotyping categorizing events, objects, and people without regard to ditterent characteristics
and qualities
29.
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Practice Questions and Answers
trauma informed an approach to treatment that acknowledges the role that trauma can have on the
care mental health of individuals
30. cultural compe- the ability to interact ettectively with people of ditterent cultures
tence Learning about ditterent cultures
31. Cultural safety Making sure people feel safe and secure in each culture
32. cultural humility Defined as lifelong commitment to self evaluation and self critique to redress
power imbalance and to develop and maintain mutually respectful dynamics
33. Neurotransmit- Synthesized in the neurons
ter criteria Causing an ettect on postsynaptic receptors
34. Neurotransmit- Cholinergic neurotransmitter
ter categories Biogenic amine neurotransmitter
Amino acid
Neuropeptide
35. Interventions for Promotion of self care activities
biologic domain Activity, exercise, nutritional interventions
Thermoregulation interventions
Promotion of normal fluid balance and prevention of water intoxication
Pharmacologic interventions (antipsychotics, anticholinergics)
36. Interventions for Development of nurse-patient relationship: trust, acceptance, hope
psychological do- Management of disturbed thoughts and sensory perceptions
main Education about symptoms
Enhancement of cognitive functioning
Use of behavioral interventions
Teaching and coping with stress
Patient education
Family education
Practice Questions and Answers
1. what was the Mental health act
insanity act
changed to?
2. What is mental a state of well-being
health Being content with life
3. mental illness Diagnosable disorder of thought, mood, or behavior that causes distress or
impaired functioning
4. The purpose of descriptions of the symptoms associated with categories of disorders
the DSM-5 is to
provide
5. Risk factors for Poverty
mental health Family conflict or violence
Neglect early in childhood
Having a parent with substance abuse problem
Living in inadequate housing
6. Religious and Coping with illness
spiritual beliefs Improving quality of life
can play a role in? Sustaining recovery
7. what is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
DSM-5?
8. Mental health act Provincial statue
Updated from the insanity act
Protects the rights of patients
9. MHA admission Person has a mental disorder,
criteria Is likely to cause harm to self or others or to sutter substantial mental or physical
, NFDN 2007 Mental Health Nursing Midterm
Practice Questions and Answers
deterioration or serious physical impairment,
Is unsuitable for admission to a facility other than as a formal patient
10. How long is the 24 hours
first admission
certificate good
for?
11. After 24 hours, Treat the client as voluntary
what can occur? Discharge the client - condition is resolved
Issue a 2nd admission certificate - can hold the client up to 30 days
12. What does the Aæ dmission certificates
mental health act Jæ
u d g e s warrant for apprehension
consist of? Pæo lice Oflcer's power
Ræeview panel
Tæreatment orders
Cæontrol
Pæatient's rights
13. What is manda- Treatment in the community if you do not comply you must go back to a facility
tory outpatient
treatment? MOT
14. Community Form of mandatory outpatient treatment
treatment order? Issued for people with severe mental health concerns
CTO
15. Ethical Principles Integrity
Veracity
Fidelity
Non maleficence
, NFDN 2007 Mental Health Nursing Midterm
Practice Questions and Answers
Autonomy
Justice
16. First Nations Came into play to replace the word Indian
17. Indian Collectively describes all indigenous people in Canada who are not metis or Inuit
18. Inuit Aboriginal people in northern Canada
19. Metis People of mixed Native American and French Canadian descent
20. Colonialism Institutionalized
Political domination of one nation over another
21. Assimilation Government policy to "Canadianize" aboriginal peoples
22. historical trauma Cumulative emotional and psychological wounding over the lifespan
23. Residential Institutions that were part of the assimilative policies that the Canadian govern-
Schools ment directed at aboriginal peoples from the 1880s onward.
24. Inter genera- the transmission of historical oppression and its negative consequences across
tional trauma generations
25. collective trauma An entire community's reaction to a crisis
26. stigma Negative, discriminatory and rejecting attitudes and behaviour toward a charac-
teristic or element exhibited by group
27. Prejudice preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
28. Sterotyping categorizing events, objects, and people without regard to ditterent characteristics
and qualities
29.
, NFDN 2007 Mental Health Nursing Midterm
Practice Questions and Answers
trauma informed an approach to treatment that acknowledges the role that trauma can have on the
care mental health of individuals
30. cultural compe- the ability to interact ettectively with people of ditterent cultures
tence Learning about ditterent cultures
31. Cultural safety Making sure people feel safe and secure in each culture
32. cultural humility Defined as lifelong commitment to self evaluation and self critique to redress
power imbalance and to develop and maintain mutually respectful dynamics
33. Neurotransmit- Synthesized in the neurons
ter criteria Causing an ettect on postsynaptic receptors
34. Neurotransmit- Cholinergic neurotransmitter
ter categories Biogenic amine neurotransmitter
Amino acid
Neuropeptide
35. Interventions for Promotion of self care activities
biologic domain Activity, exercise, nutritional interventions
Thermoregulation interventions
Promotion of normal fluid balance and prevention of water intoxication
Pharmacologic interventions (antipsychotics, anticholinergics)
36. Interventions for Development of nurse-patient relationship: trust, acceptance, hope
psychological do- Management of disturbed thoughts and sensory perceptions
main Education about symptoms
Enhancement of cognitive functioning
Use of behavioral interventions
Teaching and coping with stress
Patient education
Family education
