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NURS 663 EXAM 3 LATEST ACTUAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+| ||PROFESSOR VERIFIED|| ||BRANDNEW!!!||

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NURS 663 EXAM 3 LATEST 2026-2027 ACTUAL EXAM WITH
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (100%
VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+| ||PROFESSOR
VERIFIED|| ||BRANDNEW!!!||

Heroin withdrawal symptoms - ANSWER-restlessness, insomnia,
muscle/bone pain; stomach issues; cold flashes; uncontrollable
kicking movements



Heroin withdrawal symptoms will peak in ____ hours to ____
hours and remit within about ___ week. - ANSWER-48,72; one



Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is? - ANSWER-Organic brain
syndrome resulting from prolonged heavy alcohol use, involving
confusion, unintelligible speech, and loss of motor coordination.



Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is caused from? - ANSWER-
deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1), a vitamin metabolized poorly
by heavy drinkers.



Thiamin deficiency reduces the brain's ability to convert sugar
into? - ANSWER-energy for fuel to function

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Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome may lead to the development of
symptoms of? - ANSWER-dementia including confusion and
memory loss; significantly affects life-expectancy and requires
immediate treatment



Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome consists of two separate conditions
including: - ANSWER-Wernicke encephalopathy and Korsakoff
syndrome



Which develops first, Wernicke encephalopathy or Korsakoff
syndrome? - ANSWER-Wernicke encephalopathy



What often presents a the symptoms of Wernicke encephalopathy
are subsiding? - ANSWER-Korsakoff syndrome



Modifiable and nonimodifiable risk factors of suicide - ANSWER-
Adolescence and late life

· Bisexual or homosexual gender identity

· Criminal behavior

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· Cultural sanctions for suicide

· Delusions

· Disposition of personal property

· Divorced, separated, or single marital status

· Early loss or separation from parents

· Family history of suicide

· Hallucinations

· Homicide

· Hypochondrasis

· Impulsivity

· Increasing agitation

· Increasing stress

· Insomnia

· Lack of future plans

· Lack of sleep

· Lethality of previous attempt

· Living alone

· Low self-esteem

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· Male sex

· Physical illness or impairment

· Previous attempts that could have resulted in death

· Protestant or nonreligious status

· Recent childbirth

· Recent loss

· Repression as a defense

· Secondary gain

· Severe family pathology

· Severe psychiatric illness

· Signals of intent or die

· Suicide epidemics

· Unemployment

· White Race



Know what inner language is and why/when it is used - ANSWER-
Speech spoken to oneself without vocalization.

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