NUR 202 TEST 4 MENTAL HEALTH
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED
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What are the primary neurotransmitters? - Correct answer-Dopamine, serotonin,
norepinephrine
What do antidepressants do? - Correct answer-Block the re-uptake of serotonin and
norepinephrine
What is mental health? - Correct answer-the successful adaptation to stressors
What is mental illness? - Correct answer-Maladaptive responses to stressors,
interferes with social life and causes dysfunction
What is transference? - Correct 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.
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, What is countertransference? - Correct 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? - Correct answer-Text used by psychiatrists to diagnose
mental health disorders
-psychiatric disorder is first
What is the role of the psychiatric nurse? - Correct 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? - Correct answer--current mental state
-current health status
-current and past relationship/family dynamics
-current and past substance use
What is duty to warn? - Correct answer-The nurse must report to third party if
homicidal threats are made
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED
A+
What are the primary neurotransmitters? - Correct answer-Dopamine, serotonin,
norepinephrine
What do antidepressants do? - Correct answer-Block the re-uptake of serotonin and
norepinephrine
What is mental health? - Correct answer-the successful adaptation to stressors
What is mental illness? - Correct answer-Maladaptive responses to stressors,
interferes with social life and causes dysfunction
What is transference? - Correct 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.
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, What is countertransference? - Correct 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? - Correct answer-Text used by psychiatrists to diagnose
mental health disorders
-psychiatric disorder is first
What is the role of the psychiatric nurse? - Correct 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? - Correct answer--current mental state
-current health status
-current and past relationship/family dynamics
-current and past substance use
What is duty to warn? - Correct answer-The nurse must report to third party if
homicidal threats are made
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