121 Final Review – Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: Comprehensive Exam Practice Questions with Answers

This psychiatric-mental health nursing final review document provides a comprehensive question-and-answer bank covering major mental health disorders, assessment, pharmacology, and therapeutic interventions. Content includes major depressive disorder diagnostic criteria and symptoms, antidepressant black box warnings and onset of action, discontinuation syndrome, serotonin syndrome, suicide risk assessment including imminence and lethality, risk and protective factors, voluntary versus involuntary admission, patient rights, mood versus affect, bipolar I and II disorders, mania and hypomania, lithium monitoring and toxicity, anxiety disorders including agoraphobia, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, OCD, and PTSD, therapeutic approaches such as CBT and exposure therapy, positive and negative symptoms of psychosis, hallucinations and delusions assessment, first- and second-generation antipsychotics, long-acting injectables, extrapyramidal symptoms and interventions, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, metabolic syndrome, agranulocytosis with clozapine, CNS depressants and opiate overdose including the triad and Narcan reversal, motivational interviewing, cognition and cognitive impairment, delirium versus dementia, stages of dementia and dementia medications, the four A's of dementia, catastrophic reactions and sundowning, palliative and hospice care, loss and grief including uncomplicated, acute, anticipatory, disenfranchised, complicated, and ambiguous grief, facilitating bereavement, spirituality versus religiosity, personality disorders and clusters A, B, and C including borderline and antisocial, defense mechanisms including splitting and projection, childhood trauma as a risk factor, eating disorders including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa with medical complications, refeeding syndrome, and interventions, social learning and intergenerational violence theories, cycle of abuse, mandatory reporting, abuse versus neglect, elder abuse, crisis types and phases, and crisis assessment and coping mechanisms. It is designed for rapid self-testing and final exam preparation in psychiatric-mental health nursing.