NUR2459/NUR 2459 RASMUSSEN MENTAL HEALTH
EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED)
"Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship - ANSWER: Summarizing the
goals and objectives achieved, discussing ways to incorporate new coping strategies,
reviewing situations that occurred and exchanging memories
"Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship - ANSWER: Maintaining the
relationship, gathering data, promoting problem solving skills and self-esteem,
facilitate discharge, overcome resistance, evaluate problems and goals
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - ANSWER: Theory behind this therapy: Everyone
has schemata-unique assumptions about self, others, and the world around them
What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy? - ANSWER: A health environment,
combined with a healthy social structure within a inpatient or outpatient setting
supporting and treating those with mental illness
Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship - ANSWER:
Focus on the patient's problems and concerns encouraging them to find their own
situations, not "being a friend" or meeting the needs of the nurse
Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques - ANSWER: Reassuring,
giving advice, giving approval, disapproving, changing the subject
What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique? - ANSWER: "Tell me
more about that"
"Would you describe it more fully?"
What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques? - ANSWER:
Paraphrasing, summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication technique? -
ANSWER: "Don't worry everything will be alright", "You'll be fine". "There's nothing
to worry about"
What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique -
ANSWER: Patient: "I wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you mean."
What is affect? - ANSWER: Client's emotional display of mood being experienced
What are levels of consciousness? - ANSWER: Alert, Lethargic, Stuporous
What is "flight of ideas"? - ANSWER: Rapid changes from one thought to another
related thought
, What is perseveration? - ANSWER: Repeating the same words in response to
different questions
What is judgement? - ANSWER: Ability to evaluate choices and make appropriate
decisions
What is autonomy? - ANSWER: Respecting the rights of others to make their own
decisions (Big choices: Do you want CPR? Surgery?. Little choices: What would you
like to take your medicine with?) =CHOICE/SELF DETERMINATION
What are the reasons to use seclusion? - ANSWER: Being a harm to self or others,
decreasing sensory overload, patient request
What is a violation of the patient's rights? - ANSWER: Forcing client to eat, wash, or
dress self
What is "Duty to Warn"? - ANSWER: Informing medical staff about a client's threat to
harm a specific individual
What is the right to leave against medical advice, privacy, and all belongings? -
ANSWER: The difference in the rights of clients involuntarily admitted vs. voluntary
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? - ANSWER: In this type of therapy, the
individual is taught to control negative thoughts to maintain and manage emotions.
Uses both cognitive and behavioral approaches to assist client with anxiety
management.
What is "Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt"? - ANSWER: During this Erickson's task
successful completion would include gain self-control and independence within the
environment
What is generativity vs. stagnation? - ANSWER: This task-achieve life goals and
obtain concern and awareness of future generations
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? - ANSWER: Most basic needs require
fulfillment before those at higher levels can be achieved
What is identity vs. role confusion? - ANSWER: This task integrates all the tasks
previously mastered into a secure sense of self
What is empathy? - ANSWER: The ability to feel what others feel and respond to and
understand the experience of others on their terms
What are the components of MSE? - ANSWER: Appearance, Behavior,
Speech(rate,volume, cluttering), Mood (subjective) and affect (what we see/no
change of facial expression), Perceptions, Thought process (order of thinking),
Thought content (thinking about), Cognition
EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED)
"Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship - ANSWER: Summarizing the
goals and objectives achieved, discussing ways to incorporate new coping strategies,
reviewing situations that occurred and exchanging memories
"Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship - ANSWER: Maintaining the
relationship, gathering data, promoting problem solving skills and self-esteem,
facilitate discharge, overcome resistance, evaluate problems and goals
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - ANSWER: Theory behind this therapy: Everyone
has schemata-unique assumptions about self, others, and the world around them
What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy? - ANSWER: A health environment,
combined with a healthy social structure within a inpatient or outpatient setting
supporting and treating those with mental illness
Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship - ANSWER:
Focus on the patient's problems and concerns encouraging them to find their own
situations, not "being a friend" or meeting the needs of the nurse
Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques - ANSWER: Reassuring,
giving advice, giving approval, disapproving, changing the subject
What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique? - ANSWER: "Tell me
more about that"
"Would you describe it more fully?"
What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques? - ANSWER:
Paraphrasing, summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication technique? -
ANSWER: "Don't worry everything will be alright", "You'll be fine". "There's nothing
to worry about"
What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique -
ANSWER: Patient: "I wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you mean."
What is affect? - ANSWER: Client's emotional display of mood being experienced
What are levels of consciousness? - ANSWER: Alert, Lethargic, Stuporous
What is "flight of ideas"? - ANSWER: Rapid changes from one thought to another
related thought
, What is perseveration? - ANSWER: Repeating the same words in response to
different questions
What is judgement? - ANSWER: Ability to evaluate choices and make appropriate
decisions
What is autonomy? - ANSWER: Respecting the rights of others to make their own
decisions (Big choices: Do you want CPR? Surgery?. Little choices: What would you
like to take your medicine with?) =CHOICE/SELF DETERMINATION
What are the reasons to use seclusion? - ANSWER: Being a harm to self or others,
decreasing sensory overload, patient request
What is a violation of the patient's rights? - ANSWER: Forcing client to eat, wash, or
dress self
What is "Duty to Warn"? - ANSWER: Informing medical staff about a client's threat to
harm a specific individual
What is the right to leave against medical advice, privacy, and all belongings? -
ANSWER: The difference in the rights of clients involuntarily admitted vs. voluntary
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? - ANSWER: In this type of therapy, the
individual is taught to control negative thoughts to maintain and manage emotions.
Uses both cognitive and behavioral approaches to assist client with anxiety
management.
What is "Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt"? - ANSWER: During this Erickson's task
successful completion would include gain self-control and independence within the
environment
What is generativity vs. stagnation? - ANSWER: This task-achieve life goals and
obtain concern and awareness of future generations
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? - ANSWER: Most basic needs require
fulfillment before those at higher levels can be achieved
What is identity vs. role confusion? - ANSWER: This task integrates all the tasks
previously mastered into a secure sense of self
What is empathy? - ANSWER: The ability to feel what others feel and respond to and
understand the experience of others on their terms
What are the components of MSE? - ANSWER: Appearance, Behavior,
Speech(rate,volume, cluttering), Mood (subjective) and affect (what we see/no
change of facial expression), Perceptions, Thought process (order of thinking),
Thought content (thinking about), Cognition
