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NUR 326 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) EXAM 2 | LATEST QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE GRADE A++ ANSWERS
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NUR 326 Exam 21. The observable response a person has to his or her own feelings
Answer
Affect
2. Lack of feelings, emotions, interests, or concern.
Answer
Apathy
3. Any observable, recordable, and measurable act, movement, or response.-
Answer
Behavior
4. Great happiness and exhiliration
Answer
Elation
5. Four signs of affective instability (mood disturbance)
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1. Agitation
2. Sadness
3. Elation (Great happiness)
4. Blunting (Showing little to no emotion, monotone voice, unusually brief responses)
6. Showing little to no emotion, monotone voice, unusually brief responses
Answer
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Blunting
7. The complex process during the period of grief and mourning. During this time, people
often experience fluctuating thoughts that occur in intense waves. We know from our own
experience that significant losses are never
forgotten. As time goes on, the painful feelings become less intense and more manageable.
Answer
Bereavement
8. Who is the greatest expert on a patient's mood?
Answer
,The patient
9. In this stage, grieving people are unable or unwilling to accept that the loss has taken (or
will shortly take) place. It can feel as though they are experiencing a bad dream, that the loss is
unreal, and they are waiting to "wake up" as though from a dream, expecting that things will be
normal.
Answer
Denial
10. In this stage, people beg their "higher power" to undo the loss, saying things along the
lines of, "I'll change if you bring her (or him) back to me".This phase usually involves promises of
better behavior or significant life changes which will be made in exchange for the reversal of the
loss.
Answer
Bargaining
11. Subjective feeling and affect that follows a loss
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Grief
12. The process by which grief is resolved
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Mourning
13. Survivors repeatedly want to reunite with the person who died in some way, and may even
want to die themselves in order to be with their loved one. Normal expression of grief.
Answer
Yearnings
14. Examples of disturbed vegetative functioning. (3)
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1. eating
2. sleeping
3. menstruation
15. Which neurotransmitters of the brain are disturbed with a mood disorder?
(3)
Answer
1. Dopamine
2. Norepinephrine
3. Serotonin
16. Which two populations are at greatest risk for a mood disorder?
,Answer
1. Females
2. Individuals in the second and sixth decades of life
17. List 6 risk factors for developing a mood disorder.
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1. Stress
2. Early trauma
3. Neglect
4. Abuse
5. Family history
6. Substance dependence
18. What are some manifestations of grief?
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1. Troubling breathing
2. Trouble sleeping
3. Loss of appetite
4. Trembling, shakiness, dry mouth, nausea, muscle weakness.
19. What are some symptoms of complicated grief?
Answer
1. Grief lasting more than 2-6 months
2. Persistent feeling of hopelessness
3. Maladaptive behaviors
20. What is the #1 disabling illness in the world?
Answer
Depression
21. One or more episodes of major depression with one or more episodes of mania
Prevalence is 0.4%-1.6%
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Bipolar I disorder
22. One or more episodes of major depression with periods of hypomania Prevalence is 0.5%
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Bipolar II disorder
23. Normal, healthy fluctuations of mood
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, Euthymia
24. Mood is a experience of feelings, whereas affect is an
reflection of feelings.
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Subjective. Objective.
25. The *undiagnosed* mood state characterized by sadness, despair, and loss of functional
status
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Melancholy
26. Diagnosed overwhelming sadness and despair that one feels drained of energy.They may
feel so sad and empty that he or she becomes incapacitated by a loss of the will to live, and
suicidal thoughts may prevail.
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Depression
27. What is the difference between mania and hypomania?
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Mania involves perceptual disturbances and is more severe than hypomania.With hypomania,
there is less impairment.
28. Characteristics of mania.
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Perceptual disturbances, such as racing thoughts, grandiose delusions, difficulty concentrating,
impulsivity, and lack of insight. Also, impaired functional status.
29. What is the most common mood stabilizer?
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Lithium
30. Some symptoms of this condition include dilated pupils, myoclonus (invol- untary muscle
twitch) and hyperthermia (>106)
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Serotonin toxicity
31. Intermittent tremor or twitching
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Myoclonus
32. What is the narrow therapeutic index for lithium?
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