Q.P. CODE: 303010 Reg. No: …
Third Year B.Sc Nursing Degree Supplementary Examinations
Mental Health Nursing
May 2017
Time: 3 Hrs Max. Marks: 75
Answer all questions
Draw diagram wherever necessary
Essays (2×15=30)
1. Define suicide. Explain the causes for suicide. Discuss the nursing management of a patient with suicidal ideation. (2+5+8)
2. List the classification of schizophrenia. Explain the signs and symptoms of catatonic schizophrenia. Discuss the nursing management of a patient diagnosed with catatonic schizophrenia. (4+5+6)
Short Notes (5x5=25)
3. Explain briefly psychosocial model of erikson.
4. Role of a nurse in organic mental disorders
5. Role and responsibilities of a nurse in psychological tests
6. The rights of mentally ill clients
7. Explain the management of extrapyramidal symptoms.
Give reasons for the following (5x2=10)
8. A patient who is on treatment with disulfiram should be warned against the use of after-shave lotions, cough syrup, alcohol containing foods.
9. Good vigilance in the early mornings is required for patients with suicidal ideations
10. A safe and nonthreatening environment must be provided for the manic patients
11. In patients with dementia clocks and calendars with large numbers that are easy to read are used.
12. Medications such as injection succinylscoline is given before ECT
Differentiate between (5x2=10)
13. Obsession and compulsion
14. Typical and atypical antipsychotics
15. Classical conditioning and operant conditioning
16. Delusion and hallucination
17. Fetishism and transvestism
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