NR326 Exam 1 Mental Health Actual
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
Which of the following actions should the nurse take prior to the
scheduled ECT?
a. Witness the informed consent
b. Request an ECG
c. Obtain a serum parathyroid hormone level
d. Check the client's blood pressure - correct answer a. Witness the
informed consent
b. Request and ECG
d. Check the client's BP
Client w/bipolar disorder shows the nurse fresh self-inflicted cuts along
her right arm. Nursing priority:
a. Inspect the cuts for debris
b. Document the size and location of the cuts
c. Implement the client's behavioral modification plan.
d. Administer a tetanus antitoxin - correct answer a. Inspect the cuts for
debris
Nurse uses cognitive reframing techniques for a patient w/anxiety
disorder. Which will the nurse choose?
a. Yoga and diaphragmatic breathing
b. Pet therapy and music therapy
c. Gym activities and power walking
, NR326 Exam 1 Mental Health Actual
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
d. Priority restructuring and journaling - correct answer d. Priority
restructuring and journaling
During an admission, an assessment of the client's protective factors
includes:
a. Client's plans for self-harm and ability to carry it out
b. Client's support from family, spiritual beliefs, problem-solving skills
c. Client's thoughts for harm to others and means to carry it out
d. Client's amount of desired medications and therapeutic benefits -
correct answer b. Client's support from family, spiritual beliefs, problem-
solving skills
Which of the following is true about suicide risk?
a. Using the term suicide increases the client's risk for a suicide attempt.
b. A no-suicide contract with the client may reduce risk.
c. A client's verbal threat of suicide is attention-seeking behavior.
d. Interventions are ineffective for clients really wanting to commit suicide.
- correct answer b. A no-suicide contract with the client may reduce risk.
The nurse is including which of the following as suicide risk factors?
a. Client's recent residential move, support, lack of access to medications
b. Clients w/ recent unemployment, new relationship, loss of
transportation
c. Client is impulsive, has hallucinations, w/past history of suicide attempts
, NR326 Exam 1 Mental Health Actual
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
d. Client is homeless, seeks employment, decides to stop using street drugs
- correct answer c. Client is impulsive, has hallucinations, w/past history of
suicide attempts
Which of the following findings should the nurse identify as an indication
of Derealization?
a. Client describes a feeling of floating above the ground
b. Client has suspicions of being targeted in order to be killed and robbed
c. Client cannot recall anything that happened during the past 2 weeks
d. Client states the furniture in the room seems small and far away. -
correct answer d. Client states the furniture in the room seems small and
far away.
Which of the following findings should the nurse expect w/PTSD?
a. Client avoids talking about the traumatic event has diminished reflexes
b. Client has recurring nightmares and negative self-image.
c. Client presents with obsessive compulsive disorders and diminished
reflexes
d. Client presents with a positive self-image and has recurring nightmares
- correct answer b. Client has recurring nightmares and negative self-
image.
Nursing interventions for Dissociative Identify Disorder (DID) include
which of the following?
, NR326 Exam 1 Mental Health Actual
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
a. The goal is to get alters to continue to talk to each other
b. Use grounding techniques like clapping hands, touching an object
c. Use antipsychotics and antidepressants
d. The goal is to integrate alters - correct answer b. Use grounding
techniques like clapping hands, touching an object
d. The goal is to integrate alters
The nurse conducts a family therapy group and identifies attributes of
healthy families as having the following:
a. Placating boundaries
b. Enmeshed boundaries
c. Distinguishable boundaries
d. Rigid boundaries - correct answer c. Distinguishable boundaries
Which statement indicates understanding by the nurse about Transcranial
magnetic stimulation (TMS)?
a. "TMS treatments usually last 5-10 min."
b. "I will provide post-anesthesia care following TMS."
c. "TMS is indicated for clients who have schizophrenia spectrum
disorders."
d. "I will schedule the client for daily TMS treatments for 4- 6 weeks." -
correct answer d. "I will schedule the client for daily TMS treatments for 4-
6 weeks."
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
Which of the following actions should the nurse take prior to the
scheduled ECT?
a. Witness the informed consent
b. Request an ECG
c. Obtain a serum parathyroid hormone level
d. Check the client's blood pressure - correct answer a. Witness the
informed consent
b. Request and ECG
d. Check the client's BP
Client w/bipolar disorder shows the nurse fresh self-inflicted cuts along
her right arm. Nursing priority:
a. Inspect the cuts for debris
b. Document the size and location of the cuts
c. Implement the client's behavioral modification plan.
d. Administer a tetanus antitoxin - correct answer a. Inspect the cuts for
debris
Nurse uses cognitive reframing techniques for a patient w/anxiety
disorder. Which will the nurse choose?
a. Yoga and diaphragmatic breathing
b. Pet therapy and music therapy
c. Gym activities and power walking
, NR326 Exam 1 Mental Health Actual
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
d. Priority restructuring and journaling - correct answer d. Priority
restructuring and journaling
During an admission, an assessment of the client's protective factors
includes:
a. Client's plans for self-harm and ability to carry it out
b. Client's support from family, spiritual beliefs, problem-solving skills
c. Client's thoughts for harm to others and means to carry it out
d. Client's amount of desired medications and therapeutic benefits -
correct answer b. Client's support from family, spiritual beliefs, problem-
solving skills
Which of the following is true about suicide risk?
a. Using the term suicide increases the client's risk for a suicide attempt.
b. A no-suicide contract with the client may reduce risk.
c. A client's verbal threat of suicide is attention-seeking behavior.
d. Interventions are ineffective for clients really wanting to commit suicide.
- correct answer b. A no-suicide contract with the client may reduce risk.
The nurse is including which of the following as suicide risk factors?
a. Client's recent residential move, support, lack of access to medications
b. Clients w/ recent unemployment, new relationship, loss of
transportation
c. Client is impulsive, has hallucinations, w/past history of suicide attempts
, NR326 Exam 1 Mental Health Actual
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
d. Client is homeless, seeks employment, decides to stop using street drugs
- correct answer c. Client is impulsive, has hallucinations, w/past history of
suicide attempts
Which of the following findings should the nurse identify as an indication
of Derealization?
a. Client describes a feeling of floating above the ground
b. Client has suspicions of being targeted in order to be killed and robbed
c. Client cannot recall anything that happened during the past 2 weeks
d. Client states the furniture in the room seems small and far away. -
correct answer d. Client states the furniture in the room seems small and
far away.
Which of the following findings should the nurse expect w/PTSD?
a. Client avoids talking about the traumatic event has diminished reflexes
b. Client has recurring nightmares and negative self-image.
c. Client presents with obsessive compulsive disorders and diminished
reflexes
d. Client presents with a positive self-image and has recurring nightmares
- correct answer b. Client has recurring nightmares and negative self-
image.
Nursing interventions for Dissociative Identify Disorder (DID) include
which of the following?
, NR326 Exam 1 Mental Health Actual
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
a. The goal is to get alters to continue to talk to each other
b. Use grounding techniques like clapping hands, touching an object
c. Use antipsychotics and antidepressants
d. The goal is to integrate alters - correct answer b. Use grounding
techniques like clapping hands, touching an object
d. The goal is to integrate alters
The nurse conducts a family therapy group and identifies attributes of
healthy families as having the following:
a. Placating boundaries
b. Enmeshed boundaries
c. Distinguishable boundaries
d. Rigid boundaries - correct answer c. Distinguishable boundaries
Which statement indicates understanding by the nurse about Transcranial
magnetic stimulation (TMS)?
a. "TMS treatments usually last 5-10 min."
b. "I will provide post-anesthesia care following TMS."
c. "TMS is indicated for clients who have schizophrenia spectrum
disorders."
d. "I will schedule the client for daily TMS treatments for 4- 6 weeks." -
correct answer d. "I will schedule the client for daily TMS treatments for 4-
6 weeks."
