NUR 190 1 Exam with Accurate Answers
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What was the first psychotropic medication and when did it come about? - ✔✔Thorazine and it
was made in the 1950s
Who are vulnerable individuals? - ✔✔The elderly, children, and those with disabilities
What are the barriers to providing care for individuals with mental illness? - ✔✔- Lack on
understanding
- Stigmas and discrimination
- Lack of no access
- Fear
- Culture
What is resilience? - ✔✔bouncing back and the ability to adapt and grow from challenges
What is hardiness? - ✔✔an aspect of resilience, a mindset that makes a person more resistant
to stress
What is the DSM-5 and who uses it? - ✔✔It states that you have to meet specific criteria to be
diagnosed with a metal health disorder and it is used by practitioners
What is empathy? - ✔✔the ability to feel with someone and to understand and share their
emotions
What is sympathy? - ✔✔feeling for someone and acknowledging their suffering but from a
distance (without deep emotional connection)
, What is a side effect of someone taking medication for more than 90 days? - ✔✔Tardive
dyskinesia (a neurological syndrome that involves involuntary movements)
What did Dorothea Dix do? - ✔✔decided that people should not monopolize those with mental
illnesses, but they should build facilities (asylums) to house them
Who was the first psychiatric nurse? - ✔✔Linda Richards
What is mental illness? - ✔✔An impairment that limits one or more major life activities
Implicit vs. explicit bias - ✔✔Implicit- unconscious attitudes and beliefs that affect our
understanding, actions, and decisions, often without our conscious awareness
Explicit- conscious and deliberate attitudes or beliefs towards a person or group
What generation of antipsychotics works the fastest? - ✔✔1st generation
What is beneficence? - ✔✔to do good
What is autonomy? - ✔✔patients have a right to self-determination (to choose)
What is nonmaleficence? - ✔✔do no harm
What is justice? - ✔✔fairness
What is self-determination? - ✔✔the right of people to choose their own form of government
{Latest Update}
What was the first psychotropic medication and when did it come about? - ✔✔Thorazine and it
was made in the 1950s
Who are vulnerable individuals? - ✔✔The elderly, children, and those with disabilities
What are the barriers to providing care for individuals with mental illness? - ✔✔- Lack on
understanding
- Stigmas and discrimination
- Lack of no access
- Fear
- Culture
What is resilience? - ✔✔bouncing back and the ability to adapt and grow from challenges
What is hardiness? - ✔✔an aspect of resilience, a mindset that makes a person more resistant
to stress
What is the DSM-5 and who uses it? - ✔✔It states that you have to meet specific criteria to be
diagnosed with a metal health disorder and it is used by practitioners
What is empathy? - ✔✔the ability to feel with someone and to understand and share their
emotions
What is sympathy? - ✔✔feeling for someone and acknowledging their suffering but from a
distance (without deep emotional connection)
, What is a side effect of someone taking medication for more than 90 days? - ✔✔Tardive
dyskinesia (a neurological syndrome that involves involuntary movements)
What did Dorothea Dix do? - ✔✔decided that people should not monopolize those with mental
illnesses, but they should build facilities (asylums) to house them
Who was the first psychiatric nurse? - ✔✔Linda Richards
What is mental illness? - ✔✔An impairment that limits one or more major life activities
Implicit vs. explicit bias - ✔✔Implicit- unconscious attitudes and beliefs that affect our
understanding, actions, and decisions, often without our conscious awareness
Explicit- conscious and deliberate attitudes or beliefs towards a person or group
What generation of antipsychotics works the fastest? - ✔✔1st generation
What is beneficence? - ✔✔to do good
What is autonomy? - ✔✔patients have a right to self-determination (to choose)
What is nonmaleficence? - ✔✔do no harm
What is justice? - ✔✔fairness
What is self-determination? - ✔✔the right of people to choose their own form of government
