PLT College Incorporated

Institute of Health Sciences

Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Prelim Exam

Name: _____________________________________ Score: _____________________________

Date:__________________ Section: _____________Year Level: __________________________

I. Identification: Identify what is being asked. Kindly put your answers on the space provided before
the item. Avoid erasures and superimpositions!

____________________1. Process of making a hollow tube on the orbital/ cranial bone which is
believed to ward off spirits causing insanity?
____________________2. He proposed that imbalance to the fluids of the body may influence
emotional stability of one person; therefore, reducing some of them may help relieved symptoms?
____________________3. The term they use during the Middle Ages & Renaissance which means
people who are insane are influenced by the moon?
____________________4. The first ever hospital for the mentally ill?
____________________5. They conceptualized the haven for mentally ill individuals which they called
____________________6. the Asylum?
____________________7. She borrowed the concept of Asylum and later on built 32 homes for the
mentally ill people in various states of America?
____________________8. An idea that muck and putrefaction are the primary sources of mental illness?
____________________9. Also called “The Future of Nursing” which commissioned a study on the
pattern of nursing education?
____________________10. A deliberate shift from mental institutional care to community facilities
which elucidated the increasing number of patients in some state hospitals?
____________________11. He challenged the society to view mentally ill patients objectively; he was
later called the “Father of Psychoanalysis”?
____________________12. The person who attempted to give class and order to several mental
disorders according to their presenting symptoms?
____________________13. An incident wherein continuous flow of clients are admitted and discharged
quickly which complicated symptoms and therefore causing the surge of readmissions?
____________________14. She described the therapeutic nurse-client relationship with its phases and
tasks which greatly helped the foundation of nursing practice at present.
____________________15. A tool in defining mental disorders whether clinically significant behavioural,
psychological syndrome, or pattern that’s associated with current distress or risk in normal functioning?

II. Matching Type: Match the best definition from Column A to the terminologies from Column B.

Column A Column B
_____1. Normal Condition in which the process A) Apathy
and the feeling is in harmony. B) Appropriate Affect
_____2. Belief that one is impoverished or will be C) Inappropriate Affect
deprived with wealth. D) Delusions of Poverty
_____3. Miscomprehension of an object seen E) Delusions of Grandeur
by the naked eye. F) Illusion
_____4. Severe, prolonged and unfounded feelings G) Delusion
of gloom or despondency. H) Hallucination
_____5. An aura of intense delight, elation and I) Depression
gratification J) Phobia
_____6. Feeling of weirdness and out of ordinary K) Euphoria
towards self. L) Derealization
_____7. Rapid and abrupt shift in emotional feeling M) Depersonalization
or tone usually contrary to the stimuli. N) Labile Affect
_____8. Feeling that he is a god/goddess O) Blunted Affect
_____9. Stopping abruptly in the middle of the P) Tangentiality
sentence, sometimes may unable to continue. Q) Differentiation
_____10. Represents the highest level degree of R) Personality
word disorganization. S) Circumstantiality
_____11. This may indicate defensiveness and T) Cenesthetic Hallucination
characterized by unnecessary details in answering U) Circumlocution
_____12. Rapid shifting of thoughts from one topic V) Stereotypy
to another without relevance W) Flight of Ideas
_____13.Dulled emotional tone X) Looseness of Association
_____14. Swinging topics with a little sense Y) Coprolalia
Z) Thought Stopping
_____15. Refers to changes in skills and capacity to AA) Thought Blocking
function. AB) Religious Delusion
_____16. Process by which the cells and structures AC) Growth
become modified and develop more refine AD) Libido
characteristics AE) Flight of Ideas
_____17. Energy form or life instinct that motivates AF) Development
human development AG) Ecstacy
_____18. Outward expression of self which encompasses AH) Word Salad
temperament, feelings and self concept. AI) Dyprosydy
_____19. Process through which humans encounter and AJ) Poverty of Speech
react to new situations by using the mechanism they AK) Deja Vu
already possess.
_____20. Substitution of a word by another term which
is unlikely fitted to the statement?
_____21. Giving of an immaterial answer to a very
sensible question.
_____22. A misperception that a spare organ/system is
present in a person’s body.
_____23.Client’s Impersonation of both the thought content
and motor activity of one person?
_____24. Unfounded and irrational dread towards an object
place or person.
_____25. Repetitive utterance of obscene words by the client.

III. Situational Question. State your response in a no more than 5 sentences on how to respond to the
following types of clients. Place your answers at the back of this page.
 1. In unit 23 where anxious clients are contained, there was a nurse and a phobic client who’s
starting with the working phase of their NPI. They were having a recap of their previous
interactions when suddenly another patient holding a fork came over the unit and aggressively
went towards your patient, crying, and shouting. He then exclaimed, “You stole my underwear,
which was given to me by my girlfriend, the only remembrance I have from her!”
Q1. As a nurse, how are you going to respond to this case considering that you and the 2
patients are at risk for potential harm?
Q2. What are the steps in NPI including their major activities?

2. Chacha Loser was doing her rounds when suddenly she noticed a male patient talking to himself
holding a piece from a broken mirror. She then observed and tried to analyze the content of the
patient’s hallucination. When Chacha was almost a meter away, the patient suddenly said,
“Anyone who will come close to me will die! Killing me softly with his words! Adolf Hitler and
Osama Bin Laden will come to rescue . ha!ha!ha!”
Q1. Is it appropriate for Chacha to feel a bit of fear?
Q2. How are you going to approach and deal with this type of client?
Q3. What psychosocial assessments will you include as soon as you analyzed the content of your
patient’s statement?

People who CRITICIZE a lot are INSECURE

People who COMPLAIN a lot, seldom makes ACTION
People who INSULT a lot are commonly UGLY
People who FLIRT a lot lack LOVE and ATTENTION
People who GOSSIP a lot never had TRUE FRIENDS
..........on the OTHER HAND.
People who are STRONG are usually those who were once WEAK
and POOR
People who ACHIEVE a lot, have INSPIRATIONS
and people who SUCCEEDS in life are those who are DETERMINED
and CLEAR on
what their GOALS are.

GOODLUCK FUTURE Registered Nurse!!!