NUR 2459 (UPDATED
2025)ACCURATE ACTUAL
EXAM WITH FREQUENTLY
TESTED QUESTIONS AND
STUDY GUIDE \EXPERT
VERIFIED FOR GUARANTEED
PASS\ALREADY GRADED A+
Which statement by a client receiving classical psychoanalysis indicates understanding of this form of
therapy?
"The therapist will focus on my past relationships during our sessions"
A nurse is assisting with systematic desensitization for a client who has an extreme fear of elevators.
Which of the following actions should the nurse implement with this form of therapy?
Gradually expose the client to an elevator while practicing relaxation techniques
A nurse is assessing a client immediately following an Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) procedure.
Which of the following findings should the nurse expect?SATA
Memory loss, Confusion
A nurse is planning care for a client following the surgical implantation of a Vagnus Nerve Stimulation
(VNS) device. The nurse should plan to monitor for which of the following adverse effects? SATA
Voice Changes, Cough, Neck pain
A nurse us caring for a client who smokes and has lung cancer. The client reports, "I'm coughing
because I have that cold that everyone has been getting." The nurse identifies the client is using which
of the following defense mechanisms?
Denial
"Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship
Summarizing the goals and objectives achieved, discussing ways to incorporate new coping strategies,
reviewing situations that occurred and exchanging memories
, "Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship
Maintaining the relationship, gathering data, promoting problem solving skills and self-esteem, facilitate
discharge, overcome resistance, evaluate problems and goals
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Theory behind this therapy: Everyone has schemata-unique assumptions about self, others, and the
world around them
What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy?
A health environment, combined with a healthy social structure within a inpatient or outpatient setting
supporting and treating those with mental illness
Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship
Focus on the patient's problems and concerns encouraging them to find their own situations, not "being
a friend" or meeting the needs of the nurse
Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques
Reassuring, giving advice, giving approval, disapproving, changing the subject
What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique?
"Tell me more about that"
"Would you describe it more fully?"
What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques?
Paraphrasing, summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication technique?
"Don't worry everything will be alright", "You'll be fine". "There's nothing to worry about"
What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique
Patient: "I wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you mean."
What is affect?
Client's emotional display of mood being experienced
What are levels of consciousness?
Alert, Lethargic, Stuporous
What is "flight of ideas"?
Rapid changes from one thought to another related thought
What is perseveration?
2025)ACCURATE ACTUAL
EXAM WITH FREQUENTLY
TESTED QUESTIONS AND
STUDY GUIDE \EXPERT
VERIFIED FOR GUARANTEED
PASS\ALREADY GRADED A+
Which statement by a client receiving classical psychoanalysis indicates understanding of this form of
therapy?
"The therapist will focus on my past relationships during our sessions"
A nurse is assisting with systematic desensitization for a client who has an extreme fear of elevators.
Which of the following actions should the nurse implement with this form of therapy?
Gradually expose the client to an elevator while practicing relaxation techniques
A nurse is assessing a client immediately following an Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) procedure.
Which of the following findings should the nurse expect?SATA
Memory loss, Confusion
A nurse is planning care for a client following the surgical implantation of a Vagnus Nerve Stimulation
(VNS) device. The nurse should plan to monitor for which of the following adverse effects? SATA
Voice Changes, Cough, Neck pain
A nurse us caring for a client who smokes and has lung cancer. The client reports, "I'm coughing
because I have that cold that everyone has been getting." The nurse identifies the client is using which
of the following defense mechanisms?
Denial
"Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship
Summarizing the goals and objectives achieved, discussing ways to incorporate new coping strategies,
reviewing situations that occurred and exchanging memories
, "Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship
Maintaining the relationship, gathering data, promoting problem solving skills and self-esteem, facilitate
discharge, overcome resistance, evaluate problems and goals
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Theory behind this therapy: Everyone has schemata-unique assumptions about self, others, and the
world around them
What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy?
A health environment, combined with a healthy social structure within a inpatient or outpatient setting
supporting and treating those with mental illness
Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship
Focus on the patient's problems and concerns encouraging them to find their own situations, not "being
a friend" or meeting the needs of the nurse
Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques
Reassuring, giving advice, giving approval, disapproving, changing the subject
What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique?
"Tell me more about that"
"Would you describe it more fully?"
What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques?
Paraphrasing, summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication technique?
"Don't worry everything will be alright", "You'll be fine". "There's nothing to worry about"
What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique
Patient: "I wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you mean."
What is affect?
Client's emotional display of mood being experienced
What are levels of consciousness?
Alert, Lethargic, Stuporous
What is "flight of ideas"?
Rapid changes from one thought to another related thought
What is perseveration?
