NFDN 2007 Units 1-3 questions with accurate
answers
Acetylcholine Ans✓✓✓ -Primary cholinergic neurotransmitter
-Involved in higher intellectual functioning and memory
-Low levels of ACh can cause Alzheimer's and Down Syndrome
Addiction Ans✓✓✓ Psychological and behavioural dependence
-Reflects change in brain function at structural and functional levels
Addison's disease Ans✓✓✓ Produces depression, apathy, fatigue, and
occasionally psychosis
Alcohol withdrawal symptoms Ans✓✓✓ -Increase BP
-Increase HR
-Diaphoresis
-Adverse GI effects
-CNS effects: anxiety, restlessness, hand tremors, disorientation,
confusion, delerium tremens
Beneficence Ans✓✓✓ One should do, or attempt to do, good and make
things better for others when one can
Biological Domain Ans✓✓✓ Theories that explain neurobiologic
changes related to mental disorders
,Clang Association Ans✓✓✓ The use of words or phrases that have
similar sounds but are not associated with meaning
-may include rhyming or puns
Community Treatment Orders (CTO's) Ans✓✓✓ A type of mandatory
outpatient treatment that can require an individual with mental illness
who does not meet provincial involuntary admission criteria to comply
with stipulated treatment
-Don't meet criteria for Form 1
-Treatment order needs to be proved
-If a client is deemed incompetent and refuses treatment, they are issued
a Form 1
Criteria for Involuntary Admission under the MHA Ans✓✓✓ -Is not
suitable as a voluntary inpatient
-Meets the definition of mental disorder
-Meets the criteria for harm
-Likely to suffer substantial mental or physical deterioration
-In need of psychiatric treatment
-Refusal of treatment
-Review and appeal procedures regarding the validity of involuntary
hospitalization
CT Scan Ans✓✓✓ -X-rays and computers
, -Iodinated contrast material administered via IV
Cultural Competence Ans✓✓✓ A set of consistent behaviours,
attitudes, and policies that enable a system, agency, or individual to
work within a cross cultural context or situation
-Important to understanding the way in which culture is influencing
perceptions of health needs and ensuring this understanding influences
nursing practice
Decreased levels of serotonin Ans✓✓✓ Depression and insomnia
Delerium Tremens Ans✓✓✓ 10 or more years of drinking
-Tachycardia, sweating, hypertension, irregular tremors, delusions, vivid
hallucinations
-Resolves in 3-4 days
Deontoloy Ans✓✓✓ Postulates duty or obligation as the basis of doing
right
Dependence Ans✓✓✓ Use despite adverse consequences
Detoxification Ans✓✓✓ Process of safely and effectively withdrawing
a person from an addictive substance
Dopamine Ans✓✓✓ -Excitatory neurotransmitter
answers
Acetylcholine Ans✓✓✓ -Primary cholinergic neurotransmitter
-Involved in higher intellectual functioning and memory
-Low levels of ACh can cause Alzheimer's and Down Syndrome
Addiction Ans✓✓✓ Psychological and behavioural dependence
-Reflects change in brain function at structural and functional levels
Addison's disease Ans✓✓✓ Produces depression, apathy, fatigue, and
occasionally psychosis
Alcohol withdrawal symptoms Ans✓✓✓ -Increase BP
-Increase HR
-Diaphoresis
-Adverse GI effects
-CNS effects: anxiety, restlessness, hand tremors, disorientation,
confusion, delerium tremens
Beneficence Ans✓✓✓ One should do, or attempt to do, good and make
things better for others when one can
Biological Domain Ans✓✓✓ Theories that explain neurobiologic
changes related to mental disorders
,Clang Association Ans✓✓✓ The use of words or phrases that have
similar sounds but are not associated with meaning
-may include rhyming or puns
Community Treatment Orders (CTO's) Ans✓✓✓ A type of mandatory
outpatient treatment that can require an individual with mental illness
who does not meet provincial involuntary admission criteria to comply
with stipulated treatment
-Don't meet criteria for Form 1
-Treatment order needs to be proved
-If a client is deemed incompetent and refuses treatment, they are issued
a Form 1
Criteria for Involuntary Admission under the MHA Ans✓✓✓ -Is not
suitable as a voluntary inpatient
-Meets the definition of mental disorder
-Meets the criteria for harm
-Likely to suffer substantial mental or physical deterioration
-In need of psychiatric treatment
-Refusal of treatment
-Review and appeal procedures regarding the validity of involuntary
hospitalization
CT Scan Ans✓✓✓ -X-rays and computers
, -Iodinated contrast material administered via IV
Cultural Competence Ans✓✓✓ A set of consistent behaviours,
attitudes, and policies that enable a system, agency, or individual to
work within a cross cultural context or situation
-Important to understanding the way in which culture is influencing
perceptions of health needs and ensuring this understanding influences
nursing practice
Decreased levels of serotonin Ans✓✓✓ Depression and insomnia
Delerium Tremens Ans✓✓✓ 10 or more years of drinking
-Tachycardia, sweating, hypertension, irregular tremors, delusions, vivid
hallucinations
-Resolves in 3-4 days
Deontoloy Ans✓✓✓ Postulates duty or obligation as the basis of doing
right
Dependence Ans✓✓✓ Use despite adverse consequences
Detoxification Ans✓✓✓ Process of safely and effectively withdrawing
a person from an addictive substance
Dopamine Ans✓✓✓ -Excitatory neurotransmitter
