Q.P. CODE: 303010 Reg. No: …
Third Year B.Sc Nursing Degree Examinations
Mental Health Nursing
October 2015
Time: 3 Hrs Max. Marks: 75
Answer all questions
Draw diagram wherever necessary
Essays (2×15=30)
1. Define psychotherapy. List the types of psychotherapy. Discuss various techniques used in psychotherapy (2+5+8)
2. Explain aetiology of depression. Describe clinical features of depression. Outline the nursing management for a patient with depression. (4+5+6)
Short Notes (5x5=25)
3. Explain the role of a nurse in ECT
4. Discuss the scope and nature of mental health nursing
5. Discuss concepts of normal and abnormal behaviour
6. Describe the phases of nurse-patient relationship
7. Half-way home.
Give reasons for the following (5x2=10)
8. Meeting the nutritional needs is a priority in both mania and depression.
9. A patient who is on lithium should immediately notify the physician in case of diarrhoea and vomiting.
10.Smoking should be strictly prohibited in ECT room
11. Rationalisation is a defence mechanism in alcoholism.
12.Antipsychotics are administered with antiparkinsonian agents
Differentiate between (5x2=10)
13. Dementia and delirium
14. Epileptic and hysterical fit
15. Mood and affect
16. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
17. Insomnia and somnambulism
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