NR326 Exam 2 Mental Health Actual
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
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
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
, NR326 Exam 2 Mental Health Actual
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
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?
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
A nurse is going to implement cognitive reframing techniques for a client
who has an anxiety disorder. Which of the following techniques should the
nurse prepare to include in the plan of care? (Mark all that apply):
a. Priority restructuring
b. Monitoring thoughts
c. Diaphragmatic breathing
d. Journal keeping
e. Meditation - correct answer a. Priority Restructuring
b. Monitoring thoughts
d. Journal keeping
, NR326 Exam 2 Mental Health Actual
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
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."
Which of the following is thought to facilitate the grief process?
a. The ability to grieve alone without interference from others
b. Having recently grieved for another loss
c. Taking personal responsibility for the loss
d. The ability to grieve in anticipation of the loss - correct answer d. The
ability to grieve in anticipation of the loss
, NR326 Exam 2 Mental Health Actual
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
The major difference between normal and maladaptive grieving has been
identified as which of the following?
a. There is no loss of self-esteem in normal grieving.
b. There are no feelings of depression in normal grieving.
c. In normal grief the person does not show anger toward the loss.
d. Normal grieving lasts no longer than 1 year. - correct answer a. There is
no loss of self-esteem in normal grieving.
Which client statement should the nurse expect about a client who has
factitious disorder imposed on another
a. "I became deaf when I heard my daughter's husband abandoned her."
b. "I know that my abdominal pain is caused by a malignant tumor."
c. "I needed to make my son sick so someone else would take care of him."
d. "I had to pretend I was injured in order to get disability benefits" -
correct answer c. "I needed to make my son sick so someone else would
take care of him."
A client in mania says he is superman and has not taken prescribed
medications for one month. Nursing care includes:
a. Provide activities to avoid social isolation, assess for suicidal thoughts
b. Provide frequent rest periods while assessing for suicidal thoughts.
c. Provide the client with more activities, prn medications
d. Provide 1:1 monitoring, seclusion, and medications. - correct answer b.
Provide frequent rest periods while assessing for suicidal thoughts.
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
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
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
, NR326 Exam 2 Mental Health Actual
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
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?
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
A nurse is going to implement cognitive reframing techniques for a client
who has an anxiety disorder. Which of the following techniques should the
nurse prepare to include in the plan of care? (Mark all that apply):
a. Priority restructuring
b. Monitoring thoughts
c. Diaphragmatic breathing
d. Journal keeping
e. Meditation - correct answer a. Priority Restructuring
b. Monitoring thoughts
d. Journal keeping
, NR326 Exam 2 Mental Health Actual
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
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."
Which of the following is thought to facilitate the grief process?
a. The ability to grieve alone without interference from others
b. Having recently grieved for another loss
c. Taking personal responsibility for the loss
d. The ability to grieve in anticipation of the loss - correct answer d. The
ability to grieve in anticipation of the loss
, NR326 Exam 2 Mental Health Actual
Questions and Answers Latest Update
2025/2026 (Graded A+) – Chamberlain
The major difference between normal and maladaptive grieving has been
identified as which of the following?
a. There is no loss of self-esteem in normal grieving.
b. There are no feelings of depression in normal grieving.
c. In normal grief the person does not show anger toward the loss.
d. Normal grieving lasts no longer than 1 year. - correct answer a. There is
no loss of self-esteem in normal grieving.
Which client statement should the nurse expect about a client who has
factitious disorder imposed on another
a. "I became deaf when I heard my daughter's husband abandoned her."
b. "I know that my abdominal pain is caused by a malignant tumor."
c. "I needed to make my son sick so someone else would take care of him."
d. "I had to pretend I was injured in order to get disability benefits" -
correct answer c. "I needed to make my son sick so someone else would
take care of him."
A client in mania says he is superman and has not taken prescribed
medications for one month. Nursing care includes:
a. Provide activities to avoid social isolation, assess for suicidal thoughts
b. Provide frequent rest periods while assessing for suicidal thoughts.
c. Provide the client with more activities, prn medications
d. Provide 1:1 monitoring, seclusion, and medications. - correct answer b.
Provide frequent rest periods while assessing for suicidal thoughts.
