[LD1024] 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
August 2013
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
I. Essays: (2X20=40)
1. Define mental health and mental illness. Explain the characteristics of a mentally healthy person and state the principles of mental health nursing
2. Define Bipolar affective disorder. Discuss in detail the etiology, symptoms and signs, psychopathology and nursing management of a client with depression
II. Write Short Notes on: (8X 5 = 40)
1. Therapeutic communication
2. Behaviour therapy
3. Obsessive compulsive disorder
4. Mc Naughten’s Rule
5. Delirium tremens
6. Lithium Toxicity
7. Protective measures for a suicidal patient
III. Short Answers Questions: (10X 2 = 20)
1. Mention two main mental health classification systems
2. Define mental status examination
3. What is thought insertion?
4. List the types of crisis
5. Define Dementia
6. What is reaction formation?
7. Mention the indications for light therapy
8. What is Bulimia nervosa?
9. Mention five types of admission in a mental hospital
10. What is Nihilistic delusion?
* * * * * * * *
