Mental Health-FINAL EXAM Rasmussen
,1. What type of patients go to memory care?: Dementia or Alzheimers
2. What type of environment is a memory care unit?: Locked unit, 24-7 supervi-
sion.
3. What type of activities do you implement to interact with memory care pa-
tients?: 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?: 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?: No, they cannot make the
decision. Nurses must educate family about decisions.
6. What does agnosia mean?: Inability to interpret sensations and hence to rec-
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,ognize things, typically as a result of brain damage.
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, 7. Example of something that could cause agnosia?: TBI, vascular dementia.
8. Characteristics of delirium.: Rapid in onset, 24-72 hours, related to infection,
NOT common with aging.
9. What is an important intervention for patients with delirium?: Reorient them.
10. What are the primary characteristics of borderline personality disorder?: -
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?: Benzodiazepine
12. Example of a benzodiazpine antidote?: 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?: dependent personality
disorder
14. Give an example of a positive statement made by a recovering alcohol that
made signal that they are getting better?: I will identify things that trigger my
cravings
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,1. What type of patients go to memory care?: Dementia or Alzheimers
2. What type of environment is a memory care unit?: Locked unit, 24-7 supervi-
sion.
3. What type of activities do you implement to interact with memory care pa-
tients?: 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?: 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?: No, they cannot make the
decision. Nurses must educate family about decisions.
6. What does agnosia mean?: Inability to interpret sensations and hence to rec-
1/9
,ognize things, typically as a result of brain damage.
2/9
, 7. Example of something that could cause agnosia?: TBI, vascular dementia.
8. Characteristics of delirium.: Rapid in onset, 24-72 hours, related to infection,
NOT common with aging.
9. What is an important intervention for patients with delirium?: Reorient them.
10. What are the primary characteristics of borderline personality disorder?: -
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?: Benzodiazepine
12. Example of a benzodiazpine antidote?: 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?: dependent personality
disorder
14. Give an example of a positive statement made by a recovering alcohol that
made signal that they are getting better?: I will identify things that trigger my
cravings
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