[LA 1024] Sub. Code: 4723 Q.P. Code: 664723
B.Sc (Nursing) Degree Examination Third Year Paper III
(New Regulations for the candidates admitted from 2006-07 onwards)
Mental Health Nursing
February 2012
Time : Three hours Maximum : 75 marks
Answer ALL questions
I. Elaborate on: (2X15=30)
1. a) What is Bleuler’s disease?
b) Write the etiological theories, ICD-10 classification and Scheneider’s first rank symptoms of this disease.
c) Explain the nursing assessment and draw nursing care plan for a patient diagnosed with simple schizophrenia.
2. a) Crisis intervention.
b) Antidepressants.
II. Write notes on : (5X 5 =25)
1. Opioid withdrawal syndrome.
2. Mental health act, 1987.
3. Therapeutic community.
4. Behavioural model.
5. Obsessive compulsive disorder.
III. Short Answers: (10X 2 = 20)
1. Delusions.
2. Ganser’s syndrome.
3. Follow up, home care and rehabilitation for mood disorders.
4. Chlorpromazine.
5. Gerontological considerations in music therapy.
6. Pan phobia.
7. Puerperal mood disorders.
8. GABA.
9. Intellectually disabled.
10. Mental health related legislations.
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