NUR2488 EXAM 3 MENTAL HEALTH
NURSING RASMUSSEN COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMPREP 2026 COMPLETE ANSWER SET
⩥ What is an important intervention for patients with delirium? Answer:
Reorient them.
⩥ What are the primary characteristics of borderline personality
disorder? Answer: splitting people (Pitting a group against each other).
Self-defeating cycle of behavior.
⩥ What do you give a patient who has overdosed on PCP? Answer:
Benzodiazepine
⩥ Example of a benzodiazpine antidote? Answer: Flumazenil
⩥ What type of personality disorder might a patient who still lives at
home at 30 and depends on their mother for everything, have? Answer:
dependent personality disorder
⩥ Give an example of a positive statement made by a recovering alcohol
that made signal that they are getting better? Answer: I will identify
things that trigger my cravings
,⩥ Symptoms of patient with suspected opioid abuse/overdose? Answer:
Contracted pupils, increased HR, shallow Resp., increased temp (but not
always).
⩥ What do you give a opioid overdose patient? Answer: Narcan
(Naloxone)
⩥ S/S of acute alcohol withdrawal? Answer: Everything is increased!
RR, BP, Temp, HR, delerium
⩥ Characteristics of histrionic personality disorder? Answer: Mania,
melodramatic, manipulative, emotional attention seeking behavior, often
seductive and flirtatious.
⩥ Interventions for histrionic personality disorder patient Answer: They
are very manipulative. Set fine lines, do not offer relationship advice,
avoid situations where they are the center of attention.
⩥ Possible fatal complications of patient withdrawing from CNS
stimulant Answer: Respiratory failure, suicide, and depression.
⩥ What is a hypochondriac? Answer: Someone who thinks that
everything is wrong with them. Ex. their acute headache is caused by a
brain tumor.
, ⩥ How does cocaine stimulate the body? What do cocaine users use to
combat these effects? Answer: It is an upper. Alcohol-allows them to
sleep.
⩥ Characteristics of borderline personality disorder Answer: Split people
apart and are very manipulative.
⩥ Interventions for nurses dealing with borderline personality disorder
patients Answer: Keep all the staff on the same page. Set limits and
rules.
⩥ What is a personality disorder in general? What type of issues do
these patients have? Answer: When people rely on others to make
decisions. They have difficulties in their social life, work, relationships,
family problems. Place the blame on others. Many go undiagnosed.
⩥ What is conversion disorder?` Answer: Something psychological
happens and it then manifests somatically. Ex. Someone has fake
blindness
⩥ What is the difference between objective and subjective data? Answer:
Subjective is what the patient tells you, objective is what you see and
obtain from the physical assessment of the patient.
NURSING RASMUSSEN COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMPREP 2026 COMPLETE ANSWER SET
⩥ What is an important intervention for patients with delirium? Answer:
Reorient them.
⩥ What are the primary characteristics of borderline personality
disorder? Answer: splitting people (Pitting a group against each other).
Self-defeating cycle of behavior.
⩥ What do you give a patient who has overdosed on PCP? Answer:
Benzodiazepine
⩥ Example of a benzodiazpine antidote? Answer: Flumazenil
⩥ What type of personality disorder might a patient who still lives at
home at 30 and depends on their mother for everything, have? Answer:
dependent personality disorder
⩥ Give an example of a positive statement made by a recovering alcohol
that made signal that they are getting better? Answer: I will identify
things that trigger my cravings
,⩥ Symptoms of patient with suspected opioid abuse/overdose? Answer:
Contracted pupils, increased HR, shallow Resp., increased temp (but not
always).
⩥ What do you give a opioid overdose patient? Answer: Narcan
(Naloxone)
⩥ S/S of acute alcohol withdrawal? Answer: Everything is increased!
RR, BP, Temp, HR, delerium
⩥ Characteristics of histrionic personality disorder? Answer: Mania,
melodramatic, manipulative, emotional attention seeking behavior, often
seductive and flirtatious.
⩥ Interventions for histrionic personality disorder patient Answer: They
are very manipulative. Set fine lines, do not offer relationship advice,
avoid situations where they are the center of attention.
⩥ Possible fatal complications of patient withdrawing from CNS
stimulant Answer: Respiratory failure, suicide, and depression.
⩥ What is a hypochondriac? Answer: Someone who thinks that
everything is wrong with them. Ex. their acute headache is caused by a
brain tumor.
, ⩥ How does cocaine stimulate the body? What do cocaine users use to
combat these effects? Answer: It is an upper. Alcohol-allows them to
sleep.
⩥ Characteristics of borderline personality disorder Answer: Split people
apart and are very manipulative.
⩥ Interventions for nurses dealing with borderline personality disorder
patients Answer: Keep all the staff on the same page. Set limits and
rules.
⩥ What is a personality disorder in general? What type of issues do
these patients have? Answer: When people rely on others to make
decisions. They have difficulties in their social life, work, relationships,
family problems. Place the blame on others. Many go undiagnosed.
⩥ What is conversion disorder?` Answer: Something psychological
happens and it then manifests somatically. Ex. Someone has fake
blindness
⩥ What is the difference between objective and subjective data? Answer:
Subjective is what the patient tells you, objective is what you see and
obtain from the physical assessment of the patient.
