[LM 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 2018
Time : Three hours Maximum : 75 Marks
I. Elaborate on: (2 x 15 = 30)
1. a) Define crisis.
b) Explain the phases, types and techniques of crisis.
c) Explain crisis intervention.
2. a) Define mental retardation.
b) List the types of mental retardation.
c) Discuss the nursing management of a child with severe mental retardation.
II. Write notes on: (5 x 5 = 25)
1. Difference between psychosis and neurosis.
2. Lithium toxicity.
3. Histrionic personality disorder.
4. Milieu therapy.
5. Autism.
III. Short answers on: (10 x 2 = 20)
1. Narcolepsy.
2. Name four types of delusions.
3. Trichotillomania.
4. Mention four complications of ECT.
5. Define neologism.
6. Four types of hallucination.
7. What is projection?
8. Mention five types of admission in a mental hospital.
9. What is anti-craving agent?
10. Any four clinical features of withdrawal syndrome.
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