Q.P. CODE: 303010 Reg. No: …
Third Year B.Sc Nursing Degree Supplementary Examinations
(2010 Scheme)
Mental Health Nursing
May 2022
Time: 3 Hrs Max. Marks: 75
• Answer all questions to the point neatly and legibly • Do not leave any blank pages between answers
• Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space
• Answer all parts of a single question together • Leave sufficient space between answers
• Draw diagrams wherever necessary
Essays (2x15=30)
1. Define nurse-patient therapeutic relationship. Enlist goals, phases and tasks in therapeutic techniques. Describe in
detail Johari window. (2+6+7)
2. Classify schizophrenia. Explain treatment modalities of catatonic schizophrenia. Discuss in detail home care and
rehabilitation of an individual suffering with chronic schizophrenia. (4+4+7)
Short Notes (5x5=25)
3. Mental health team
4. Psychosocial model of Erikson
5. Purpose of mental status examination
6. Family therapy
7. Puerperium psychosis
Give reasons for the following (5x2=10)
8. Maintaining good rapport is essential while taking care of patients with mental illness
9. Process recording is a purposeful communication.
10.Nurse must check blood report of lithium therapy patient
11.Nurse must remember human rights before restraining an aggressive patient.
12.Nurse should listen a patient when he/she is explained a suicide plan.
Differentiate between (5x2=10)
13.Adaptive and maladaptive behaviour
14.Crisis and coping
15.Habits and impulses
16.Enuresis and encopresis
17.Narcotics and psychotropic substances
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