PRN 1562 Mental Health Exam 2 100% VERIFIED
ANSWERS 2024/2025
1). Interventions when a client is at risk for suicide?
Ans: Remove shoestrings, curtain Rods and glass items. Give the client plastic wear to
eat with.
2). Signs of a bipolar manic episode?
Ans: Risky behavior, high self esteem
3). When a client is manic the best therapeutic communication is?
Ans: calm but firm, be consistent, short explanations, redirect energy, Identify
expectations and consequences.
4). Mini mental statues exam (mmse) is used to?
Ans: assess dementia by assessing the client's cognitive status through a series of
questions such as: word recall and following directions such as drawing a clock face
5). Clients are at higher risk for suicide if?
Ans: they have a family history or is abused
6). Compassion fatigue (secondary traumatic stress)
Ans: emotional effect that nurses and other health care workers may experience by
being indirectly traumatized when helping or trying to help a person who has experienced
primary traumatic stress
7). Restraints are used if?
Ans: -patient is a danger to themselves or others
-patient is interfering with medical therapies
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, 8). Signs of anxiety includes?
Ans: impending doom, chest tightness, increased blood pressure
9). Lamictal(lamotrigine)
Ans: Used to treat bipolar disorder and can cause a rash called steven-Johnson
syndrome
10). Celexa (citalopram) used to treat?
Ans: depression
11). Citalopram and selegiline should?
Ans: not be combined. It can cause serotonin syndrome. Signs include confusion,
hallucination, seizure, changes in blood pressure, increased heart rate, blurred vision,
tremor, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Severe cases may result in coma or death
12). Fluvoxamine (luvox) used to treat?
Ans: OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) side effects are sexual dysfunction and
suicidal thinking
13). Obsessions are what?
Ans: what they think thoughts
14). A compulsion is what?
Ans: what they do actions
15). Compulsions includes?
Ans: repetitive or irresistible behaviors like counting, chanting, checking, washing,
tapping and ordering
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ANSWERS 2024/2025
1). Interventions when a client is at risk for suicide?
Ans: Remove shoestrings, curtain Rods and glass items. Give the client plastic wear to
eat with.
2). Signs of a bipolar manic episode?
Ans: Risky behavior, high self esteem
3). When a client is manic the best therapeutic communication is?
Ans: calm but firm, be consistent, short explanations, redirect energy, Identify
expectations and consequences.
4). Mini mental statues exam (mmse) is used to?
Ans: assess dementia by assessing the client's cognitive status through a series of
questions such as: word recall and following directions such as drawing a clock face
5). Clients are at higher risk for suicide if?
Ans: they have a family history or is abused
6). Compassion fatigue (secondary traumatic stress)
Ans: emotional effect that nurses and other health care workers may experience by
being indirectly traumatized when helping or trying to help a person who has experienced
primary traumatic stress
7). Restraints are used if?
Ans: -patient is a danger to themselves or others
-patient is interfering with medical therapies
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, 8). Signs of anxiety includes?
Ans: impending doom, chest tightness, increased blood pressure
9). Lamictal(lamotrigine)
Ans: Used to treat bipolar disorder and can cause a rash called steven-Johnson
syndrome
10). Celexa (citalopram) used to treat?
Ans: depression
11). Citalopram and selegiline should?
Ans: not be combined. It can cause serotonin syndrome. Signs include confusion,
hallucination, seizure, changes in blood pressure, increased heart rate, blurred vision,
tremor, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Severe cases may result in coma or death
12). Fluvoxamine (luvox) used to treat?
Ans: OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) side effects are sexual dysfunction and
suicidal thinking
13). Obsessions are what?
Ans: what they think thoughts
14). A compulsion is what?
Ans: what they do actions
15). Compulsions includes?
Ans: repetitive or irresistible behaviors like counting, chanting, checking, washing,
tapping and ordering
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