RASMUSSEN MENTAL HEALTH ACTUAL FINALS
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔21. Social relationship - ✔✔1. Initiates for friendship, socialization, enjoyment
2. Giving advice
3. Approval and disapproval
4. Meetings basic dependency needs.
✔✔22. Transference - ✔✔1. Person consciously and inappropriately displaces anger to
a different person
✔✔23. Counter transference - ✔✔1. Tendency of a nurse to displace onto the patient
feelings related to people of in the past
✔✔24. Nursing process - ✔✔1. Assessment -hx, interview, MSE
2. Diagnosis -identify problem nursing dx, and prioritizing tx.
3. Outcome- identify attainable outcomes
4. Planning -identify safe interventions
5. Implementation-practicing interventions, meds and advanced practice
6. Evaluation document results of evaluation if not reached and then revise
✔✔25. Goal development - ✔✔1. Contains attainable cultural sensitive goals that can
be measured with a time limit
, ✔✔26. Mental health - ✔✔1. Being comfortable with yourself
2. Feeling good about relationships with others
3. Being able to meet the demands of life
✔✔27. Mental illness - ✔✔1. Low self esteen and self concept
2. Unable to relate to others
3. Incapable to relate to others
4. Unable to distinguish between reality, fantasy and imagination
✔✔28. Parts of MSE - ✔✔1. Personal info- age, gender, marital status, relision, race
employment
2. Appearance- grooming, hygiene, pupils, facial expression, HT, WT, tattoos, age
3. Behavior- body movements, abnormal movements, level of eye contact
4. Speech- rate, slow, rapid, volume, slurring, tone, stuttering
5. Affect/mood- flat, bland, animated, angry, sad, labile, euphoric
6. Thought- disorganized, coherent, flight of ideas, delusions, obsessions
7. Perceptual disturbance- hallucinations delusions
8. Cognition- A&O*3 LOC, memory attention, insight, judgement
✔✔29. Empathy - ✔✔1. Understanding the feelings of someone else
2. "How upsetting this must be for you."
✔✔30. Sympathy - ✔✔1. We feel the feelings of others
2. "I know exactly how you feel"
✔✔31. Use of silence - ✔✔1. Therapeutic communication technique
2. Giving the patient time for thought
✔✔32. Clarifying - ✔✔1. Therapeutic communication technique
2. To reflect and ask questions to make sure you understand
✔✔33. Paraphrasing - ✔✔1. Therapeutic communication technique
2. Restating in different words
✔✔34. Restating - ✔✔1. Therapeutic communication technique
2. Mirroring what the patient just said
✔✔35. Reflecting - ✔✔1. Therapeutic communication technique
2. "you sound as if you have many disappointments"
✔✔36. Exploring - ✔✔1. Therapeutic communication technique
2. Tell me more about your relationship with your wife
✔✔37. Projective question - ✔✔1. Therapeutic communication technique
2. "what if" questions (if you had three wishes?) used to explore
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔21. Social relationship - ✔✔1. Initiates for friendship, socialization, enjoyment
2. Giving advice
3. Approval and disapproval
4. Meetings basic dependency needs.
✔✔22. Transference - ✔✔1. Person consciously and inappropriately displaces anger to
a different person
✔✔23. Counter transference - ✔✔1. Tendency of a nurse to displace onto the patient
feelings related to people of in the past
✔✔24. Nursing process - ✔✔1. Assessment -hx, interview, MSE
2. Diagnosis -identify problem nursing dx, and prioritizing tx.
3. Outcome- identify attainable outcomes
4. Planning -identify safe interventions
5. Implementation-practicing interventions, meds and advanced practice
6. Evaluation document results of evaluation if not reached and then revise
✔✔25. Goal development - ✔✔1. Contains attainable cultural sensitive goals that can
be measured with a time limit
, ✔✔26. Mental health - ✔✔1. Being comfortable with yourself
2. Feeling good about relationships with others
3. Being able to meet the demands of life
✔✔27. Mental illness - ✔✔1. Low self esteen and self concept
2. Unable to relate to others
3. Incapable to relate to others
4. Unable to distinguish between reality, fantasy and imagination
✔✔28. Parts of MSE - ✔✔1. Personal info- age, gender, marital status, relision, race
employment
2. Appearance- grooming, hygiene, pupils, facial expression, HT, WT, tattoos, age
3. Behavior- body movements, abnormal movements, level of eye contact
4. Speech- rate, slow, rapid, volume, slurring, tone, stuttering
5. Affect/mood- flat, bland, animated, angry, sad, labile, euphoric
6. Thought- disorganized, coherent, flight of ideas, delusions, obsessions
7. Perceptual disturbance- hallucinations delusions
8. Cognition- A&O*3 LOC, memory attention, insight, judgement
✔✔29. Empathy - ✔✔1. Understanding the feelings of someone else
2. "How upsetting this must be for you."
✔✔30. Sympathy - ✔✔1. We feel the feelings of others
2. "I know exactly how you feel"
✔✔31. Use of silence - ✔✔1. Therapeutic communication technique
2. Giving the patient time for thought
✔✔32. Clarifying - ✔✔1. Therapeutic communication technique
2. To reflect and ask questions to make sure you understand
✔✔33. Paraphrasing - ✔✔1. Therapeutic communication technique
2. Restating in different words
✔✔34. Restating - ✔✔1. Therapeutic communication technique
2. Mirroring what the patient just said
✔✔35. Reflecting - ✔✔1. Therapeutic communication technique
2. "you sound as if you have many disappointments"
✔✔36. Exploring - ✔✔1. Therapeutic communication technique
2. Tell me more about your relationship with your wife
✔✔37. Projective question - ✔✔1. Therapeutic communication technique
2. "what if" questions (if you had three wishes?) used to explore
