Exam 2: NUR 2459 / NUR2459 (Latest Update)
Mental and Behavioral Health Nursing | Exam Questions
and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A
1. "Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship - CORRECT ANSWER
Summarizing the goals and objectives achieved, discussing ways to incorporate
new coping strategies, reviewing situations that occurred and exchanging
memories
2. "Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship - CORRECT ANSWER
Maintaining the relationship, gathering data, promoting problem solving skills and
self-esteem, facilitate discharge, overcome resistance, evaluate problems and
goals
3. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - CORRECT ANSWER Theory behind this
therapy: Everyone has schemata-unique assumptions about self, others, and the
world around them
4. What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy? - CORRECT ANSWER A health
environment, combined with a healthy social structure within a inpatient or
outpatient setting supporting and treating those with mental illness
5. Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship -
CORRECT 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
6. Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques - CORRECT
ANSWER Reassuring, giving advice, giving approval, disapproving, changing
the subject
7. What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique? - CORRECT
ANSWER "Tell me more about that"
8. "Would you describe it more fully?"
9. What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques? - CORRECT
ANSWER Paraphrasing, summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
10. What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication technique? -
CORRECT ANSWER "Don't worry everything will be alright", "You'll be fine".
"There's nothing to worry about"
, 11. What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique -
CORRECT ANSWER Patient: "I wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you
mean."
12. What is affect? - CORRECT ANSWER Client's emotional display of mood
being experienced
13. What are levels of consciousness? - CORRECT ANSWER Alert, Lethargic,
Stuporous
14. What is "flight of ideas"? - CORRECT ANSWER Rapid changes from one
thought to another related thought
15. What is perseveration? - CORRECT ANSWER Repeating the same words in
response to different questions
16. What is judgement? - CORRECT ANSWER Ability to evaluate choices and
make appropriate decisions
17. What is autonomy? - CORRECT 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
18. What are the reasons to use seclusion? - CORRECT ANSWER Being a harm
to self or others, decreasing sensory overload, patient request
19. What is a violation of the patient's rights? - CORRECT ANSWER Forcing client
to eat, wash, or dress self
20. What is "Duty to Warn"? - CORRECT ANSWER Informing medical staff about a
client's threat to harm a specific individual
21. What is the right to leave against medical advice, privacy, and all belongings? -
CORRECT ANSWER The difference in the rights of clients involuntarily
admitted vs. voluntary
22. What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? - CORRECT 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.
23. What is "Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt"? - CORRECT ANSWER During this
Erickson's task successful completion would include gain self-control and
independence within the environment
Mental and Behavioral Health Nursing | Exam Questions
and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A
1. "Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship - CORRECT ANSWER
Summarizing the goals and objectives achieved, discussing ways to incorporate
new coping strategies, reviewing situations that occurred and exchanging
memories
2. "Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship - CORRECT ANSWER
Maintaining the relationship, gathering data, promoting problem solving skills and
self-esteem, facilitate discharge, overcome resistance, evaluate problems and
goals
3. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - CORRECT ANSWER Theory behind this
therapy: Everyone has schemata-unique assumptions about self, others, and the
world around them
4. What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy? - CORRECT ANSWER A health
environment, combined with a healthy social structure within a inpatient or
outpatient setting supporting and treating those with mental illness
5. Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship -
CORRECT 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
6. Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques - CORRECT
ANSWER Reassuring, giving advice, giving approval, disapproving, changing
the subject
7. What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique? - CORRECT
ANSWER "Tell me more about that"
8. "Would you describe it more fully?"
9. What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques? - CORRECT
ANSWER Paraphrasing, summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
10. What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication technique? -
CORRECT ANSWER "Don't worry everything will be alright", "You'll be fine".
"There's nothing to worry about"
, 11. What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique -
CORRECT ANSWER Patient: "I wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you
mean."
12. What is affect? - CORRECT ANSWER Client's emotional display of mood
being experienced
13. What are levels of consciousness? - CORRECT ANSWER Alert, Lethargic,
Stuporous
14. What is "flight of ideas"? - CORRECT ANSWER Rapid changes from one
thought to another related thought
15. What is perseveration? - CORRECT ANSWER Repeating the same words in
response to different questions
16. What is judgement? - CORRECT ANSWER Ability to evaluate choices and
make appropriate decisions
17. What is autonomy? - CORRECT 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
18. What are the reasons to use seclusion? - CORRECT ANSWER Being a harm
to self or others, decreasing sensory overload, patient request
19. What is a violation of the patient's rights? - CORRECT ANSWER Forcing client
to eat, wash, or dress self
20. What is "Duty to Warn"? - CORRECT ANSWER Informing medical staff about a
client's threat to harm a specific individual
21. What is the right to leave against medical advice, privacy, and all belongings? -
CORRECT ANSWER The difference in the rights of clients involuntarily
admitted vs. voluntary
22. What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? - CORRECT 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.
23. What is "Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt"? - CORRECT ANSWER During this
Erickson's task successful completion would include gain self-control and
independence within the environment
