Mental Health-FINAL EXAM Rasmussen 2 2024
EXAM (AUTHENTIC EXAM WITH ANSWERS) KEY
CONCEPTS EXAM GRADED A+]
1). What type of patients go to memory care?
Ans: Dementia or Alzheimers
2). What type of environment is a memory care unit?
Ans: Locked unit, 24-7 supervision.
3). What type of activities do you implement to interact with memory care patients?
Ans: Activities that help them to recall their past-show old photos, ask questions like
what was your first job? where did you grow up? what was your parents names?
4). If a patient is not engaged in a group of people sharing photos what might they be feeling?
Ans: Depressed, Isolated, Angry
5). Can a social worker make a decision about placement for an elderly person if that person
has living family members, a poa?
Ans: No, they cannot make the decision. Nurses must educate family about
decisions.
6). What does agnosia mean?
Ans: Inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a
result of brain damage.
7). Example of something that could cause agnosia?
Ans: TBI, vascular dementia.
Characteristics of delirium.
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, 8).
Ans: Rapid in onset, 24-72 hours, related to infection, NOT common with aging.
9). What is an important intervention for patients with delirium?
Ans: Reorient them.
10). What are the primary characteristics of borderline personality disorder?
Ans: splitting people (Pitting a group against each other). Self-defeating cycle of
behavior.
11). What do you give a patient who has overdosed on pcp?
Ans: Benzodiazepine
12). Example of a benzodiazpine antidote?
Ans: Flumazenil
13). What type of personality disorder might a patient who still lives at home at 30 and
depends on their mother for everything, have?
Ans: dependent personality disorder
14). Give an example of a positive statement made by a recovering alcohol that made signal
that they are getting better?
Ans: I will identify things that trigger my cravings
15). Symptoms of patient with suspected opioid abuse/overdose?
Ans: Contracted pupils, increased HR, shallow Resp., increased temp (but not always).
16). What do you give a opioid overdose patient?
Ans: Narcan (Naloxone)
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, 17). S/s of acute alcohol withdrawal?
Ans: Everything is increased! RR, BP, Temp, HR, delerium
18). Characteristics of histrionic personality disorder?
Ans: Mania, melodramatic, manipulative, emotional attention seeking behavior, often
seductive and flirtatious.
19). Interventions for histrionic personality disorder patient
Ans: They are very manipulative. Set fine lines, do not offer relationship advice, avoid
situations where they are the center of attention.
20). Possible fatal complications of patient withdrawing from cns stimulant
Ans: Respiratory failure, suicide, and depression.
21). What is a hypochondriac?
Ans: Someone who thinks that everything is wrong with them. Ex. their acute
headache is caused by a brain tumor.
22). How does cocaine stimulate the body? what do cocaine users use to combat these
effects?
Ans: It is an upper. Alcohol-allows them to sleep.
23). Characteristics of borderline personality disorder
Ans: Split people apart and are very manipulative.
24). Interventions for nurses dealing with borderline personality disorder patients
Ans: Keep all the staff on the same page. Set limits and rules.
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EXAM (AUTHENTIC EXAM WITH ANSWERS) KEY
CONCEPTS EXAM GRADED A+]
1). What type of patients go to memory care?
Ans: Dementia or Alzheimers
2). What type of environment is a memory care unit?
Ans: Locked unit, 24-7 supervision.
3). What type of activities do you implement to interact with memory care patients?
Ans: Activities that help them to recall their past-show old photos, ask questions like
what was your first job? where did you grow up? what was your parents names?
4). If a patient is not engaged in a group of people sharing photos what might they be feeling?
Ans: Depressed, Isolated, Angry
5). Can a social worker make a decision about placement for an elderly person if that person
has living family members, a poa?
Ans: No, they cannot make the decision. Nurses must educate family about
decisions.
6). What does agnosia mean?
Ans: Inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a
result of brain damage.
7). Example of something that could cause agnosia?
Ans: TBI, vascular dementia.
Characteristics of delirium.
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, 8).
Ans: Rapid in onset, 24-72 hours, related to infection, NOT common with aging.
9). What is an important intervention for patients with delirium?
Ans: Reorient them.
10). What are the primary characteristics of borderline personality disorder?
Ans: splitting people (Pitting a group against each other). Self-defeating cycle of
behavior.
11). What do you give a patient who has overdosed on pcp?
Ans: Benzodiazepine
12). Example of a benzodiazpine antidote?
Ans: Flumazenil
13). What type of personality disorder might a patient who still lives at home at 30 and
depends on their mother for everything, have?
Ans: dependent personality disorder
14). Give an example of a positive statement made by a recovering alcohol that made signal
that they are getting better?
Ans: I will identify things that trigger my cravings
15). Symptoms of patient with suspected opioid abuse/overdose?
Ans: Contracted pupils, increased HR, shallow Resp., increased temp (but not always).
16). What do you give a opioid overdose patient?
Ans: Narcan (Naloxone)
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, 17). S/s of acute alcohol withdrawal?
Ans: Everything is increased! RR, BP, Temp, HR, delerium
18). Characteristics of histrionic personality disorder?
Ans: Mania, melodramatic, manipulative, emotional attention seeking behavior, often
seductive and flirtatious.
19). Interventions for histrionic personality disorder patient
Ans: They are very manipulative. Set fine lines, do not offer relationship advice, avoid
situations where they are the center of attention.
20). Possible fatal complications of patient withdrawing from cns stimulant
Ans: Respiratory failure, suicide, and depression.
21). What is a hypochondriac?
Ans: Someone who thinks that everything is wrong with them. Ex. their acute
headache is caused by a brain tumor.
22). How does cocaine stimulate the body? what do cocaine users use to combat these
effects?
Ans: It is an upper. Alcohol-allows them to sleep.
23). Characteristics of borderline personality disorder
Ans: Split people apart and are very manipulative.
24). Interventions for nurses dealing with borderline personality disorder patients
Ans: Keep all the staff on the same page. Set limits and rules.
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