NURS 202 MENTAL HEALTH VSIM
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ What do antidepressants do? Answer: Block the re-uptake of
serotonin and norepinephrine
◉ What is mental health? Answer: the successful adaptation to stressors
◉ What is mental illness? Answer: Maladaptive responses to stressors,
interferes with social life and causes dysfunction
◉ What is transference? Answer: When client views a member of
healthcare team as having characteristics of another person who has
been significant to the patient's personal life. Can be positive or
negative.
◉ What is countertransference? Answer: Nurse unknowingly displacing
feelings and behaviors about someone in the nurse's past onto the client.
Can disrupt therapeutic nurse-client relationship.
, ◉ What is the DSM-5? Answer: Text used by psychiatrists to diagnose
mental health disorders
-psychiatric disorder is first
◉ What is the role of the psychiatric nurse? Answer: -help clients
communicate and relate to others
-use of therapeutic communication
-need for self-awareness and empathy
-knowledge of mental health resources
◉ What are nursing assessment priorities? Answer: -current mental state
-current health status
-current and past relationship/family dynamics
-current and past substance use
◉ What is duty to warn? Answer: The nurse must report to third party if
homicidal threats are made
-nurses on inpatient units must document the incident, inform
psychiatrist and treatment team to decide who will contact the third party
◉ Does the client have the right to refuse medication? Answer: Yes,
unless the client is a danger to self or others
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ What do antidepressants do? Answer: Block the re-uptake of
serotonin and norepinephrine
◉ What is mental health? Answer: the successful adaptation to stressors
◉ What is mental illness? Answer: Maladaptive responses to stressors,
interferes with social life and causes dysfunction
◉ What is transference? Answer: When client views a member of
healthcare team as having characteristics of another person who has
been significant to the patient's personal life. Can be positive or
negative.
◉ What is countertransference? Answer: Nurse unknowingly displacing
feelings and behaviors about someone in the nurse's past onto the client.
Can disrupt therapeutic nurse-client relationship.
, ◉ What is the DSM-5? Answer: Text used by psychiatrists to diagnose
mental health disorders
-psychiatric disorder is first
◉ What is the role of the psychiatric nurse? Answer: -help clients
communicate and relate to others
-use of therapeutic communication
-need for self-awareness and empathy
-knowledge of mental health resources
◉ What are nursing assessment priorities? Answer: -current mental state
-current health status
-current and past relationship/family dynamics
-current and past substance use
◉ What is duty to warn? Answer: The nurse must report to third party if
homicidal threats are made
-nurses on inpatient units must document the incident, inform
psychiatrist and treatment team to decide who will contact the third party
◉ Does the client have the right to refuse medication? Answer: Yes,
unless the client is a danger to self or others
