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Class 1 Review Quiz

Test your knowledge and understanding of key concepts in psychiatric nursing and neurobiology with our engaging quiz. This is a great opportunity to reinforce your learning and assess your comprehension of vital topics.

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1. The brain structure most involved in detecting threat and promoting fear is thought to be the:

Hippocampus

Adrenal gland

Hypothalamus

Amygdala

2. The effectiveness of antidepressants in reducing depression lends support to which of the following theoretical mechanisms of depression?

Accumulation of beta-amyloid plaques in neuronal cell bodies

Abnormal functional activation of the prefrontal cortex

Deficiency of monoamine neurotransmitters

Elevated levels of dopamine in the limbic system

3. Neurotransmission: Which statement is true?

An electrical signal is conducted down the axon and a chemical signal is released in the synapse

A chemical signal is conducted down the axon and an electrical signal is released in the synapse

Neurotransmitters that are released by the pre-synaptic cell cross the synaptic cleft and enter the post-synaptic cell

All neurotransmitters stimulate G-protein receptors that open ion channels

4. The cascade of effects in the HPA axis goes from:

Hippocampus – pituitary – adrenal glands

Hypothalamus – pituitary – adrenal glands

Hippocampus – pituitary – amygdala

Hypothalamus – pituitary – amygdala

5. The stress response is a experienced characterized by:

Elevated somatic nervous system activity

Elevated parasympathetic nervous system activity

Elevated sympathetic nervous system activity

Elevated peripheral nervous system activity

6. Hildegard Peplau, often referred to as the "mother of modern psychiatric nursing," viewed the therapeutic role of the psychiatric nurse as focused on the:

Relationship between client and nurse

Importance of culture in personality development

Administration of prescribed interventions to clients

Client within the family system

7. Which of the following is a characteristic of a therapeutic milieu?

Decision-making is clearly defined and is the responsibility of staff members

The client is encouraged to express rights, needs, and opinions

There is frequent change of staff members

Activity programming is absent

8. Clients receiving psychiatric care have the right to determine their own treatment. This right is based on the ethical principle of

Autonomy

Beneficence

Justice

Least restrictive treatment

9. A nurse understands that "boundaries" refer to:

When a person is involuntary confined in a room or area and is physically not permitted to leave.

Reatment provided in a setting that meets the client needs with the least restrictions imposed.

Limits that permit the client and mental health professional to have a therapeutic relationship based on the needs of the client.

Applying limits to where the client can be on the unit.

10. A client in an outpatient mental health facility confides to the nurse that he intends to shoot his ex-wife and her new boyfriend. The nurse should have which of these understandings about this situation?

The information was learned in a therapeutic relationship and the client's confidentiality must be preserved.

The information must be reported to the proper authorities to protect the threatened persons.

The client is probably testing the nurse and expects the nurse to verbally set limits on his behavior.

The client is probably dramatizing his feelings and is not seriously intending to carry out the act.

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