Mental Health Nursing Quiz - 1

NOTE: This is a 'take-home' quiz. Estimated time (1-hour). You will need to do some reading at home to answer these questions. Please write you answers on a separate sheet of paper and submit your answers to me on Monday 16/1/2011.

1.             Which of the following examples best illustrates a delusion of reference?
   a.       The FBI is plotting to steal my invention
   b.      The night shift nurse doesn't like me
   c.       The news announcer on TV is talking about me
   d.      The food is being poisoned
   
   
   2.      False sensory perception in the absence of real external stimuli is called...
   a.       Depersonalization
   b.      Hallucination
   c.        De Ja vu
   d.      Illusion
   
   
   3.       Repeating the movement of another person is known as...
   a.       Negativism
   b.      Automatic obedience 
   c.       Echolalia
   d.      Echopraxia
   
   
   4.       In the first encounter with the patient, the nurse should give more attention to...
   a.       Fill an observation sheet                 
   b.      Gain the patient confidence
   c.       Arrive at the proper nursing diagnosis      
   d.      Let the patient talk freely as he want
   
   
   5.       Lithium is used for...
   a.       Severe anxiety
   b.      Severe psychomotor retardation
   c.       Control manic episodes
   d.      Delusional disorder
   
   
   6.       The law concerned with the care and protection of patient’s with mental health problems is known as...
   a.       The Lunacy Act (1923)
   b.      The Mental Health Act (2001)
   c.       The Mental Disorders Ordinance (1952)
   d.      The Insane and Deranged Persons Regulation (1931)
   
   
   7.       Schizophrenia was first described by...
   a.       Emil Kraepelin
   b.      Sigmund Freud
   c.       Ivan Pavlov
   d.      Dorothea Dix
   
   
   8.       An involuntary patient in a psychiatric hospital can petition for release by writing a letter to...
   a.       The Prime Minister of Malaysia
   b.      The Yang di-Pertua  Agong
   c.       The Medical Director of the hospital
   d.      The Inspector General of Health
   
   
   9.       Describe what is a “Neologism”?
   
   
   10.   Miss Lu is a 19-year old woman who was recently admitted to the Medical Ward of your hospital. When you enter her room to take her blood pressure you find her hanging from the shower nozzle with a bed sheet wrapped around her neck. After quickly taking her pulse you realise that she is deceased and surmise that she committed suicide some time ago.
         Describe your nursing actions with respect to your legal obligations.