Student Guidelines Mental Health Nursing Ticket to Enter
Anxiety and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
It is essential to the success of your simulation experience that everyone is prepared.
Please read the PTSD section in the textbook to answer the questions below. Tickets will be
reviewed as a group in the pre-briefing before the simulation begins.
Preparation Guidelines
Please come prepared with these questions completed to discuss prior to the activity during the
Pre-Briefing this is your Ticket to enter.
In this simulation you will be reviewing anxiety and PTSD situations and then performing a
simulation regarding care for a client experiencing PTSD
Ticket to Enter
1. Describe at least five populations who are vulnerable to PTSD
• War veterans
• sexual abuse victims
• substance abusers
• family history of PTSD or depression
• previous traumatic experiences
2. What are eight DSM5 criteria for PTSD
• Stressor
• Intrusion symptoms
• Avoidance
• Negative alterations in condition and mood
• Alterations in arousal and reactivity
Anxiety and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
It is essential to the success of your simulation experience that everyone is prepared.
Please read the PTSD section in the textbook to answer the questions below. Tickets will be
reviewed as a group in the pre-briefing before the simulation begins.
Preparation Guidelines
Please come prepared with these questions completed to discuss prior to the activity during the
Pre-Briefing this is your Ticket to enter.
In this simulation you will be reviewing anxiety and PTSD situations and then performing a
simulation regarding care for a client experiencing PTSD
Ticket to Enter
1. Describe at least five populations who are vulnerable to PTSD
• War veterans
• sexual abuse victims
• substance abusers
• family history of PTSD or depression
• previous traumatic experiences
2. What are eight DSM5 criteria for PTSD
• Stressor
• Intrusion symptoms
• Avoidance
• Negative alterations in condition and mood
• Alterations in arousal and reactivity
