NUR 350 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS
Nurse asked pt if they are hearing voices. Pt says yes. What does the nurse ask next?
"Do they tell you to hurt yourself"
Pt reports hearing people telling her to fight and hurt her boss. This type of hallucination
is?
Command Auditory
The group of medications to treat Schizophrenia is called:
Antipsychotic medications
There are two groups of antipsychotic medications. The group used to treat positive &
negative symptoms is:
Atypical antipsychotic medications
Pt has been taking antipsychotics for 6 years. A test used to monitor complications from
these meds is:
AIMs Test
Which of the following symptoms would be a symptom of schizophrenia?
Hearing voice telling Tim to hurt someone
Epidemiology of schizophrenia. A true fact regarding schizophrenia is:
Early-onset occurs more often in males
A pt says to the nurse, “The federal guards were sent to harm me.” Best nursing response
to pt:
"You feel people are trying to hurt you? You are safe here. Tell me more."
Pt with catatonic stupor is in a fetal position. The most appropriatenursing intervention?
Sit by pt in silence - use occasional open-ended statements/questions
Pt is experiencing paranoia at this time. The best nursing intervention is:
Avoid laughing or whispering in front of the client
Presence of things not normally there-hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, paranoia
is called:
Positive Symptoms
, An example of a negative symptom of Schizophrenia
Anhedonia
An example of a persecution delusion:
Believing that one is being singled out for harm.
Anhedonia is:
Unable/Inability to feel pleasure in things that normally produce it
Giving personal meaning to events, believing events are related to you when they are not is
called
Ideas of reference delusion
Contraction of the muscles usually of the head and neck (side effect of antipsychotic meds)
Acute dystonia
What is the type of delusion that is believing that one is a very powerful or important
person?
Grandeur delusion
Irreversible side effect of antipsychotics - involuntary spasms-tongue, finger, toe, neck
trunk
Tardive dyskinesia (TD or TDK)
Fatal reaction to neuroleptic med-muscle rigidity, fever,elevated white blood cell count
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
Two people see the same object however one person has a misinterpretation of that object
and sees it another way
Illusions
Jumble of words that is meaningless to the listener because of extreme level of
disorganization that the patient has
Word salad
What neurotransmitter(s) do atypical antipsychotics work on?
Works on Serotonin and Dopamine
Identify the med that is not an atypical antipsychotic.
Thorazine (Chlorpromazine)
Identify the med that is not a typical (conventional) antipsychotic.
CORRECT ANSWERS
Nurse asked pt if they are hearing voices. Pt says yes. What does the nurse ask next?
"Do they tell you to hurt yourself"
Pt reports hearing people telling her to fight and hurt her boss. This type of hallucination
is?
Command Auditory
The group of medications to treat Schizophrenia is called:
Antipsychotic medications
There are two groups of antipsychotic medications. The group used to treat positive &
negative symptoms is:
Atypical antipsychotic medications
Pt has been taking antipsychotics for 6 years. A test used to monitor complications from
these meds is:
AIMs Test
Which of the following symptoms would be a symptom of schizophrenia?
Hearing voice telling Tim to hurt someone
Epidemiology of schizophrenia. A true fact regarding schizophrenia is:
Early-onset occurs more often in males
A pt says to the nurse, “The federal guards were sent to harm me.” Best nursing response
to pt:
"You feel people are trying to hurt you? You are safe here. Tell me more."
Pt with catatonic stupor is in a fetal position. The most appropriatenursing intervention?
Sit by pt in silence - use occasional open-ended statements/questions
Pt is experiencing paranoia at this time. The best nursing intervention is:
Avoid laughing or whispering in front of the client
Presence of things not normally there-hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, paranoia
is called:
Positive Symptoms
, An example of a negative symptom of Schizophrenia
Anhedonia
An example of a persecution delusion:
Believing that one is being singled out for harm.
Anhedonia is:
Unable/Inability to feel pleasure in things that normally produce it
Giving personal meaning to events, believing events are related to you when they are not is
called
Ideas of reference delusion
Contraction of the muscles usually of the head and neck (side effect of antipsychotic meds)
Acute dystonia
What is the type of delusion that is believing that one is a very powerful or important
person?
Grandeur delusion
Irreversible side effect of antipsychotics - involuntary spasms-tongue, finger, toe, neck
trunk
Tardive dyskinesia (TD or TDK)
Fatal reaction to neuroleptic med-muscle rigidity, fever,elevated white blood cell count
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
Two people see the same object however one person has a misinterpretation of that object
and sees it another way
Illusions
Jumble of words that is meaningless to the listener because of extreme level of
disorganization that the patient has
Word salad
What neurotransmitter(s) do atypical antipsychotics work on?
Works on Serotonin and Dopamine
Identify the med that is not an atypical antipsychotic.
Thorazine (Chlorpromazine)
Identify the med that is not a typical (conventional) antipsychotic.
