NSG 330 CORE MAIN EXAMINATION QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) - ✔✔prolonged, unexplained, but intense fears
not attached to a specific object that lasts for 6 or more months
✔✔Panic Disorder - ✔✔GAD but greatly magnified and has sudden onset when placed
in real or perceived life-threatening situations; attacks are periodic and persistent, can
cause panic
✔✔Agoraphobia - ✔✔fear of being in an environment without control like in groups/ out
of house
✔✔OCD - ✔✔recurrent obsessions or time consuming compulsions to cope with
anxiety; also includes body dysmorphic disorder and hording disorder
✔✔Trauma Disorders - ✔✔Acute Stress Disorder, PTSD, Dissociative Disorders
✔✔Dissociative Disorders - ✔✔disturbances in identity, memory, consciousness;
dissociative fugue (forget self when travel to new place)
, ✔✔Modeling and Role Modeling Theory - ✔✔build trust, the nurse develops an
understanding of the client's world and makes interventions based on the model to meet
patient's perceived needs
✔✔Hardiness - ✔✔Must be committed to involvement in life, the challenge is seeing
change as an opportunity, must have a sense of control over life *commitment and
control*
✔✔Collaborative Interventions - ✔✔TCA, SSRI, SNRI, ECT, anxiolytics (Benzos,
buspirone), beta blockers/mood stabilizers, Prazosin for PTSD sleep disturbances
✔✔OCD Interventions - ✔✔provide reassurance, facilitating rituals, helping with tasks or
decisions, tolerating disruptions, modifying personal and/or family routines, taking on
patient's responsibilities
✔✔Panic Disorder Interventions - ✔✔stay with patient, reassure them you will not leave,
give clear directions, assist in providing environment with minimal stimulation, walk or
pace with patient, administer PRN anxiolytic, allow patient to vent after, talk through
deep breathing
✔✔Interventions for DID - ✔✔remind alters that they are part of the whole, don't request
alters, don't promise protection from alters to facilitate separation, ground in the here
and now, avoid situations the patient may view as intrusive or assaultive
✔✔Cognitive/Behavioral Interventions - ✔✔empowerment, recognize and label stressful
event, thought stopping, refuting irrational beliefs, assertiveness training, reward
appropriate behaviors, worry times, time management
✔✔Second Leading source of disease - ✔✔depression
✔✔Types of depressed mood disorders - ✔✔Major (Peripartum onset, seasonal
pattern), bipolar 1 and 2, Cyclothymic, Dysthymic
✔✔anhedonia - ✔✔lack of enjoyment or pleasure
✔✔BAD Manic Episode - ✔✔Distinct period of mania: hyper verbal, intrusive, flight of
ideas, distractible, poor judgement increasing risk of self harm, decreased sleep and
attention to physical needs, elevated mood, can be irritable
✔✔Mania - ✔✔abnormal and persistent elevated mood, expansive mood, and/or
irritable mood
✔✔mood lability - ✔✔rapid shifts in mood with little to no change in external events
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) - ✔✔prolonged, unexplained, but intense fears
not attached to a specific object that lasts for 6 or more months
✔✔Panic Disorder - ✔✔GAD but greatly magnified and has sudden onset when placed
in real or perceived life-threatening situations; attacks are periodic and persistent, can
cause panic
✔✔Agoraphobia - ✔✔fear of being in an environment without control like in groups/ out
of house
✔✔OCD - ✔✔recurrent obsessions or time consuming compulsions to cope with
anxiety; also includes body dysmorphic disorder and hording disorder
✔✔Trauma Disorders - ✔✔Acute Stress Disorder, PTSD, Dissociative Disorders
✔✔Dissociative Disorders - ✔✔disturbances in identity, memory, consciousness;
dissociative fugue (forget self when travel to new place)
, ✔✔Modeling and Role Modeling Theory - ✔✔build trust, the nurse develops an
understanding of the client's world and makes interventions based on the model to meet
patient's perceived needs
✔✔Hardiness - ✔✔Must be committed to involvement in life, the challenge is seeing
change as an opportunity, must have a sense of control over life *commitment and
control*
✔✔Collaborative Interventions - ✔✔TCA, SSRI, SNRI, ECT, anxiolytics (Benzos,
buspirone), beta blockers/mood stabilizers, Prazosin for PTSD sleep disturbances
✔✔OCD Interventions - ✔✔provide reassurance, facilitating rituals, helping with tasks or
decisions, tolerating disruptions, modifying personal and/or family routines, taking on
patient's responsibilities
✔✔Panic Disorder Interventions - ✔✔stay with patient, reassure them you will not leave,
give clear directions, assist in providing environment with minimal stimulation, walk or
pace with patient, administer PRN anxiolytic, allow patient to vent after, talk through
deep breathing
✔✔Interventions for DID - ✔✔remind alters that they are part of the whole, don't request
alters, don't promise protection from alters to facilitate separation, ground in the here
and now, avoid situations the patient may view as intrusive or assaultive
✔✔Cognitive/Behavioral Interventions - ✔✔empowerment, recognize and label stressful
event, thought stopping, refuting irrational beliefs, assertiveness training, reward
appropriate behaviors, worry times, time management
✔✔Second Leading source of disease - ✔✔depression
✔✔Types of depressed mood disorders - ✔✔Major (Peripartum onset, seasonal
pattern), bipolar 1 and 2, Cyclothymic, Dysthymic
✔✔anhedonia - ✔✔lack of enjoyment or pleasure
✔✔BAD Manic Episode - ✔✔Distinct period of mania: hyper verbal, intrusive, flight of
ideas, distractible, poor judgement increasing risk of self harm, decreased sleep and
attention to physical needs, elevated mood, can be irritable
✔✔Mania - ✔✔abnormal and persistent elevated mood, expansive mood, and/or
irritable mood
✔✔mood lability - ✔✔rapid shifts in mood with little to no change in external events
