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Third Year B.Sc Nursing Degree Supplementary Examinations, – May 2016
Mental Health Nursing
Time: 3 Hrs
Max. Marks: 75
- Answer all questions
- Draw diagram wherever necessary
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Essays (2x15=30)
- Explain the etiological factors related to depression. List the names of any six antidepressants. Write the nurse's responsibilities while taking care of a patient who is on antidepressant. (6+3+6=15)
- Define psychiatric nursing. List the standards of psychiatric-mental health nursing. Explain the principles of psychiatric nursing with relevant clinical examples. (2+5+8=15)
Short Notes (5x5=25)
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- Purposes of history taking in psychiatry
- Phases of therapeutic nurse-patient relationship
- Clinical features of paranoid schizophrenia
- Side effects of typical antipsychotics
- Nursing management of a patient with Alzheimer's disease.
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Give reasons for the following (5x2=10)
- Patient need to be kept fasting before ECT
- Depression is more among females
- Anxiolytics are given usually at bedtime
- Patient on antipsychotic is advised to rise slowly from the supine position
- Excessive sweating may cause lithium toxicity.
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Differentiate between (5x2=10)
- Insomnia and hypersomnia
- Direct and modified ECT
- Enuresis and encopresis
- Halfway home and quarter way home
- Psychosis and neurosis
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