Mental Health Nursing Exam 2 - Jersey College Exam Practice Questions and Answers
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Mental Health Nursing Exam 2 - Jersey College
Exam Practice Questions and Answers
verbigeration - Answer️️ -the stereotyped repetition of words or
phrases that may or may not have meaning to the listener
Clang associations - Answer️️ -ideas that are related to one
another based on soun...
JERSEY COLLEGE
Mental Health Nursing Exam 2 - Jersey College
Exam Practice Questions and Answers
verbigeration - Answer✔️✔️-the stereotyped repetition of words or
phrases that may or may not have meaning to the listener
Clang associations - Answer✔️✔️-ideas that are related to one
another based on sound or rhyming rather than meaning.
Neologisms - Answer✔️✔️-words invented by the client.
A word salad is: - Answer✔️✔️-a combination of jumbled words and
phrases that are disconnected or incoherent and make no sense to
the listener.
Which is the central focus of persecutory delusions? - Answer✔️✔️-
Injustice that must be remedied by legal action
A nurse is caring for a hospitalized client who has schizophrenia.
The client has been taking antipsychotic medications for 1 week
when the nurse observes that the client's eyes are fixed on the
ceiling. The nurse interprets this finding as: - Answer✔️✔️-oculogyric
crisis.
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When developing the plan of care for a client with schizophrenia
who is in the acute phase of illness, the nurse understands that the
client is at high risk for what? - Answer✔️✔️-suicide
A psychiatric-mental health nurse is conducting a review class for a
group of colleagues about schizoaffective disorder. The nurse
determines that the class was successful based on which
description of the condition by the group? - Answer✔️✔️-Clients are
often misdiagnosed as having schizophrenia.
The nurse is caring for a client with somatic symptom disorder.
When assessing this client, the nurse would be especially alert for
symptoms of what? - Answer✔️✔️-Depression
Which statement about the etiology of somatic symptom disorder is
accurate? - Answer✔️✔️-The etiology is unknown
The client asks the nurse, "What does having psychosomatic
symptoms mean?" What is the nurse's best reply? - Answer✔️✔️-"It
means that stress and/or emotions are causing your symptoms."
Which disorder is characterized by unexplained, sudden deficits in
sensory or motor function? - Answer✔️✔️-Conversion disorder
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A nurse is assessing a client with hypochondriasis. Which signs
could the nurse expect to find in the client? Select all that apply. -
Answer✔️✔️--The client is preoccupied with the self.
-The client reports having visited many physicians or hospitals.
-The client is reluctant to participate in psychiatric treatment
programs.
Which best describes the concept of somatization? - Answer✔️✔️-
Manifestation of physical symptoms from psychological distress
Which occurs when an individual intentionally produces illness
symptoms to avoid work? - Answer✔️✔️-Malingering
In which disorder is the individual motivated solely by the desire to
become a health care client? - Answer✔️✔️-Factitious disorder
A client who has been having difficulty functioning in daily life
comes to the nurse and states, "I'm really afraid. I've had these
funny feelings in my stomach. I'm scared that I might have cancer."
The client has been seen by numerous health care professionals
and no evidence of cancer has been demonstrated. The nurse
suspects what? - Answer✔️✔️-Illness anxiety disorder
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