Num2307 viva 2025/2026 Exam
Questions and Corresponding Answers
with Surety of 100% Pass Mark
What advice can nurses/midwives give patients to promote and maintain positive
mental health and wellbeing? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Work through stressful situations
Promoting sleep
Promoting exercise
Promoting healthy eating habits
Setting realistic goals
How do nurses/midwives minimise stigma in relation to mental illness? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔By treating patients with respect, autonomy and dignity By
educating ourselves, our patients and their families
How does stigma impact patients with a mental disorder? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Less
likely to reach out
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,Less likely to discuss with support persons such as family and friends out of fear of
being scrutinised
What is recovery-oriented practice in mental health? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Uniqueness
of the individual
Real choices
Attitudes and rights
Dignity and respect
Partnership and communication
Evaluating recovery
How do nurses/midwives promote personal and clinical recovery? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Encourage referral to therapists etc
Recovery informed practice (how the nurse can promote)
Keeping hope alive
Therapeutic optimism
Promote self-efficacy
Self determination
Personal agency
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,What do they need? Want?
Relationships are critical
Validation
Individual recovery
A focus on validation. They want to be understood but not thought of as an illness.
They are a person with an illness
What is holistic care in mental health nursing? How does this relate to the multi-
disciplinary team we use in mental health settings? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Biopsychosocial: all parts of the patients' life can fit into at least one of the
categories
Holistic care assumed that the person:
-Always responds as a unified whole
-Is different from, and more than, the sum of their parts
Collaborative approach to care
-Mental health care is best delivered by a multidisciplinary team
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, -A team providing a whole-person approach
-Shared purpose or goal of care with the MDT and the patient
-The patient and their family are an integral part of the team
What is the therapeutic relationship? How would you develop a therapeutic
relationship with a patient? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A therapeutic relationship is helpful,
respectful, sensitive and trustful and allows the patient to access the best possible
healthcare and discuss goals with the nurse. It is developed by:
-Breaking the ice -Appropriate environment
-Let them talk ... or give space (after a risk assessment)
-Interview alone/ pairs (depending on risk)
-Listen, show empathy and validate what they are saying (acknowledge their
experiences)
-Observation skills
-Setting clear boundaries
What are the professional qualities and skills nurses/midwives need to be effective
in mental health nursing? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔MH nursing requires a fusion of
professional knowledge, clinical and interpersonal skills and experience. Nurse as
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Questions and Corresponding Answers
with Surety of 100% Pass Mark
What advice can nurses/midwives give patients to promote and maintain positive
mental health and wellbeing? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Work through stressful situations
Promoting sleep
Promoting exercise
Promoting healthy eating habits
Setting realistic goals
How do nurses/midwives minimise stigma in relation to mental illness? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔By treating patients with respect, autonomy and dignity By
educating ourselves, our patients and their families
How does stigma impact patients with a mental disorder? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Less
likely to reach out
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,Less likely to discuss with support persons such as family and friends out of fear of
being scrutinised
What is recovery-oriented practice in mental health? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Uniqueness
of the individual
Real choices
Attitudes and rights
Dignity and respect
Partnership and communication
Evaluating recovery
How do nurses/midwives promote personal and clinical recovery? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Encourage referral to therapists etc
Recovery informed practice (how the nurse can promote)
Keeping hope alive
Therapeutic optimism
Promote self-efficacy
Self determination
Personal agency
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,What do they need? Want?
Relationships are critical
Validation
Individual recovery
A focus on validation. They want to be understood but not thought of as an illness.
They are a person with an illness
What is holistic care in mental health nursing? How does this relate to the multi-
disciplinary team we use in mental health settings? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Biopsychosocial: all parts of the patients' life can fit into at least one of the
categories
Holistic care assumed that the person:
-Always responds as a unified whole
-Is different from, and more than, the sum of their parts
Collaborative approach to care
-Mental health care is best delivered by a multidisciplinary team
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, -A team providing a whole-person approach
-Shared purpose or goal of care with the MDT and the patient
-The patient and their family are an integral part of the team
What is the therapeutic relationship? How would you develop a therapeutic
relationship with a patient? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A therapeutic relationship is helpful,
respectful, sensitive and trustful and allows the patient to access the best possible
healthcare and discuss goals with the nurse. It is developed by:
-Breaking the ice -Appropriate environment
-Let them talk ... or give space (after a risk assessment)
-Interview alone/ pairs (depending on risk)
-Listen, show empathy and validate what they are saying (acknowledge their
experiences)
-Observation skills
-Setting clear boundaries
What are the professional qualities and skills nurses/midwives need to be effective
in mental health nursing? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔MH nursing requires a fusion of
professional knowledge, clinical and interpersonal skills and experience. Nurse as
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