NRSG 1340 Exam 1 PREP
NRSG 1340 EXAM 1 PREP LATEST 2025/2026 ACTUAL
EXAM STUDY GUIDE TEST BANK COMPLETE 200
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
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What is the "revolving door" concept?
Shorter hospital stays leads to decompensation which leads to
rehospitalization and a diagnosis of both mental illness and substance
abuse
Mental illness affects what percentage of the homeless population?
33%
What are basic-level psychiatric nursing practices?
- counseling
- milieu therapy
- self-care
- psychobiologic interventions
- health teaching
- case management
- health promotion and maintenance
What are advanced-level psychiatric nursing practices?
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- psychotherapy
- prescriptive authority for drugs
- consultation and liaison
- evaluation
- program development and management
- clinical supervision
True or false: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM) is a published document that outlines specific diagnostic criteria
for mental disorders that are based on clinical research and experience.
True
_______ drugs are those that are used to change brain function and
result in alterations in perception, mood, or consciousness.
Psychotropic
Psychotropic is affecting the mind of mental processes. Antipsychotic is
preventing or counteracting psychosis.
_______ management involves the use of an individual who
coordinates and manages all of the care required by a client.
Case management
Give four examples of excitatory neurotransmitters.
- dopamine: complex movements, motivation, cognition, regulation of
emotional response
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- norepinephrine: attention, learning, memory, sleep, wakefulness,
mood regulation
- epinephrine: fight or flight response
- glutamate: neurotoxic effects at high levels
Gove two examples of inhibitory neurotransmitters.
- serotonin: food intake, sleep, wakefulness, temperature regulation,
pain control, sexual behaviors, regulation of emotions
- GABA: major inhibitory neurotransmitter, modulation of other
neurotransmitters
Give an example of an excitatory/inhibitory neurotransmitter.
- acetylcholine: sleep and wakefulness cycle, signals muscles to become
alert
Give five examples of first generation (conventional) antipsychotics.
- chlorpromazine
- fluphenazine
- thioridazine
- haloperidol
- loxapine
Give three examples of second generation (atypical) antipsychotics.
- clozapine
- risperidone
- olanzapine
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Give an example of a third generation antipsychotic.
Aripiprazole
What is the use and MOA of antipsychotics?
Use: treatment of psychosis
MOA: blocks dopamine receptors
What are side effects of antipsychotics?
- acute dystonia
- pseudoparkinsonism
- akathisia
- neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS)
- tardive dyskinesia
- anticholinergic effects (dry mouth, constipation, urinary
hesitancy/retention
- increased prolactin levels
- weight gain
- metabolic syndrome
- cardiovascular adverse effects
- lengthening of QT interval
- agranilocytosis
What should you do if you miss a dose of antipsychotic medication?
Take dose within 4 hours of usual time
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NRSG 1340 EXAM 1 PREP LATEST 2025/2026 ACTUAL
EXAM STUDY GUIDE TEST BANK COMPLETE 200
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
GUARANTEED PASS- ACE YOUR EXAM
What is the "revolving door" concept?
Shorter hospital stays leads to decompensation which leads to
rehospitalization and a diagnosis of both mental illness and substance
abuse
Mental illness affects what percentage of the homeless population?
33%
What are basic-level psychiatric nursing practices?
- counseling
- milieu therapy
- self-care
- psychobiologic interventions
- health teaching
- case management
- health promotion and maintenance
What are advanced-level psychiatric nursing practices?
1|Page
, NRSG 1340 Exam 1 PREP
- psychotherapy
- prescriptive authority for drugs
- consultation and liaison
- evaluation
- program development and management
- clinical supervision
True or false: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM) is a published document that outlines specific diagnostic criteria
for mental disorders that are based on clinical research and experience.
True
_______ drugs are those that are used to change brain function and
result in alterations in perception, mood, or consciousness.
Psychotropic
Psychotropic is affecting the mind of mental processes. Antipsychotic is
preventing or counteracting psychosis.
_______ management involves the use of an individual who
coordinates and manages all of the care required by a client.
Case management
Give four examples of excitatory neurotransmitters.
- dopamine: complex movements, motivation, cognition, regulation of
emotional response
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, NRSG 1340 Exam 1 PREP
- norepinephrine: attention, learning, memory, sleep, wakefulness,
mood regulation
- epinephrine: fight or flight response
- glutamate: neurotoxic effects at high levels
Gove two examples of inhibitory neurotransmitters.
- serotonin: food intake, sleep, wakefulness, temperature regulation,
pain control, sexual behaviors, regulation of emotions
- GABA: major inhibitory neurotransmitter, modulation of other
neurotransmitters
Give an example of an excitatory/inhibitory neurotransmitter.
- acetylcholine: sleep and wakefulness cycle, signals muscles to become
alert
Give five examples of first generation (conventional) antipsychotics.
- chlorpromazine
- fluphenazine
- thioridazine
- haloperidol
- loxapine
Give three examples of second generation (atypical) antipsychotics.
- clozapine
- risperidone
- olanzapine
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, NRSG 1340 Exam 1 PREP
Give an example of a third generation antipsychotic.
Aripiprazole
What is the use and MOA of antipsychotics?
Use: treatment of psychosis
MOA: blocks dopamine receptors
What are side effects of antipsychotics?
- acute dystonia
- pseudoparkinsonism
- akathisia
- neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS)
- tardive dyskinesia
- anticholinergic effects (dry mouth, constipation, urinary
hesitancy/retention
- increased prolactin levels
- weight gain
- metabolic syndrome
- cardiovascular adverse effects
- lengthening of QT interval
- agranilocytosis
What should you do if you miss a dose of antipsychotic medication?
Take dose within 4 hours of usual time
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