FEBRUARY 2017 Sub. Code: 1813
DIPLOMA IN NURSING AIDE COURSE
SECOND YEAR
PAPER III MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
Q.P. Code: 841813
Time Three Hours Maximum 100 Marks
Answer All questions.
I. Elaborate on: x 10 30)
1. Write the Characteristics of a Mentally Healthy person.
2. Write the detail about the trends in Psychiatric Nursing.
3. Explain about Mental Status Examination in details.
II. Write notes on: (10 x 5 50)
1. Explain the management of Aggressive patient.
2. Mental Health Act 1987.
3. Writ the Indications, Contra Indications and side effects of Electro
Convulsive Therapy.
4. Anti Anxiety drugs.
5. Differences between psychotic and Neurotic disorders.
6. Write the complications of Alcohol abuse.
7. Prevention of mental illness during child hood.
8. Juvenile delinquency.
9. Admission and Discharge procedure from Mental hospital.
10. Explain Lithium Toxicity.
III. Short answers on: (10 x 2 20)
1. Write any two etiologies for Mental illness.
2. Four contributors to Psychiatry.
3. Bulimia Nervosa.
4. Any four types of Hallucination.
5. Signs of Symptoms of Dementia.
6. Nursing Malpractice.
7. Techniques of Crisis intervention.
8. Insomnia.
9. What are the drugs commonly used for addiction?
10. Somatic symptoms of depression.