Q.P. CODE: 303010 Reg. No: …
Third Year B.Sc Nursing Degree Examinations
Mental Health Nursing
September 2018
Time: 3 Hrs Max. Marks: 75
Answer all questions
Draw diagram wherever necessary
Essays (2x15=30)
1. Define mental health nursing. Explain the etiological factors related to mental illness. Discuss
the psychoanalytical model by Sigmund Freud. (2+7+6)
2. List the indications of lithium carbonate. Write the signs and symptoms of lithium toxicity.
Prepare a psycho education plan for a patient receiving lithium. (2+5+8)
Short Notes (5x5=25)
3. Behaviour therapy
4. Psycho - social stages of personality development
5. Clinical features of depression
6. Types of mental retardation
7. Alcohol withdrawal symptoms.
Give reasons for the following (5x2=10)
8. Nurse should not challenge the delusion of a patient
9. Thiamine deficiency is more among alcoholics
10.Rate of suicide is more among psychiatric patients
11.Reorient the patient who is having perceptual abnormalities
12.When the client is at the most depressed state, involve the client in one-to-one activity.
Differentiate between (5x2=10)
13.Mood and affect
14.Positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia
15.Hallucination and delusion
16.Primary and secondary prevention
17.ICD and DSM
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