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Health Nursing 5th Edition by Cynthia
Kincheloe
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, Chapter 1 Mental Health and Mental Illness
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is evidence of our mental health?
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A) Our ability to function well with others
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B) Our ability to defend what we believe
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D) Our ability to defend those weaker than we are
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2. A mental health nurse is teaching a class in anger management. She teaches the patients th
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at recognizing what triggers their anger response allows them to do which of the following?
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D) Control the things that trigger their anger
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al illness is caused by?
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,D) Hypnosis
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or mental. What would be the best statement about stress that the educator could give?
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A) Stress can be prostress or distress.
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B) Stress can never enhance the feeling of well-being.
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D) Distress is actually harmful to ones health.
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6. A patient comes to the clinic to see the Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. The patient states, I seem t
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o be miserable and upset all the time. My marriage is crumbling because my wife refuses to understand
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how I feel. What does the nurse practitioner understand about the factors contributing to the patients str
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ess?
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ne way a mental health nurse could help the patient cope with stress?
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A) Teach mentalization zz
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wife 3 months ago and is living alone in a rural area. His family lives at a great distance and rarely vis
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its him. He is not eating for several days at a time and is not paying his bills. He is now without electri
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city and phone service at his home. When his son asks the nurse what is wrong with his father, what wo
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Kincheloe
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D) Our ability to defend those weaker than we are
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A) Stress can be prostress or distress.
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