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Nursing 5
Study Guide – Exam 1
Fall 2006
1. Discuss the purpose and functions of the DSM-IV-TR.
2. Describe Erickson’s eight stages in terms of the crisis presented in each stage.
3. Describe the hierarchy of needs as described by Maslow.
4. Name some techniques used in Operant Conditioning.
5. Define Cognitive Therapy (also known as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy) and describe the basic techniques.
6. Review the obligations of the nurse should an elderly client report an aide who is verbally abusive.
7. State the major goals of managed care in care of the mentally ill.
8. Define the word “milieu” and discuss the nurse’s role in providing a therapeutic milieu for the mentally-ill client.
9. Discuss the nurse’s response to a client who refuses to take medications.
10. Describe the benefits of spending informal time (versus formal counseling sessions) with psychiatric clients on an inpatient unit.
11. Name some predominant values of the dominant culture in American society that might interfere with a therapeutic relationship with clients of other cultures.
12. What is the first responsibility of a nurse assessing a client who does not speak English well?
13. Name a culture where physical symptoms are often used to express emotional pain.
14. Discuss the concept of “false imprisonment” and what actions would describe it.
15. What exceptions are there to the rule of nurse-client confidentiality?
16. Describe appropriate documentation for clients who require seclusion and restraint.
17. What is the responsibility of nursing supervisors for clients who require suicide watch?
18. In assessing a depressed client, what is most important in order to keep the client safe?
19. What ways might a client test a nurse’s clinical competence and boundaries?
20. Describe a therapeutic response that a nurse can give if a client asks that the nurse talk to the doctor for him/her.
21. Discuss the problems associated with a nurse that believes that he or she is the only one that can best help a client.
22. Describe incongruence between verbal and physical communication.
23. According to the text, what is the current thinking about the relationship between depression, grief and the immune system.
24. What situations would assertiveness training help a client to maintain mental health.
25. What is the role of spirituality in psychoimmunology? …in the nursing process?
26. Describe assertiveness in communication. Contrast assertive communication with passive and aggressive communication.
27. Describe a client who is acting out a the following defense mechanisms: passive-aggressive, regression, displacement, idealization, reaction formation, altruism, compensation, projection, rationalization and denial.
28. Discuss methods for assisting clients whose anxiety level is moderate or severe.
29. Describe the benefits of presenting a “show of force” when severely anxious clients lose control.
thanks liana! :)
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