Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka
III Year B.Sc. Nursing Degree Examination- October 2015
Time : Three Hours Max.Marks: 75
Mental Health Nursing
(RS - 2)
QP Code - 1770
Your answer shall be specific to the question asked
Draw neat and labelled diagrams wherever necessary.
Long Essay (Answer any two) 2 x 10 = 20
1. Define therapeutic communication. Explain the phases of therapeutic communication techniques.
2. What is Electroconvulsive therapy? Explain the role of nurse in ECT.
3. Whar are the clinical features of catatonic schizophrenia? Explain the nursing management of a patient with catatonic schizophrenia.
Short Essay (Answer any Eight) 8 x 5 = 40
- Explain lithium therapy
- Johari window
- Existential model
- difference between normal and abnormal behaviour
- Explain the role of nurse in Occupational therapy
- Antipsychotics
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Alcohol withdrawal syndrome
- Mental retardation
Short Answers: 10 x = 20
- Dementia
- Grief
- Forensic psychiatry
- Fugue
- Cataplexy
- Aphasia
- Verbigeration
- Neologism
- Perseveration
- Labile affect
