[LO 0219] FEBRUARY 2019 Sub. Code: 1833
DIPLOMA IN HEALTH CARE AIDE
SECOND YEAR
PAPER III MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
Q.P. Code: 841833
Time Three Hours Maximum 100 Marks
Answer All questions.
I. Elaborate on: x 10 30)
1. Define community mental health nursing? Elaborate on preventive psychiatry.
2. Explain in detail about therapeutic nurse patient relationship and techniques
which are used during therapeutic process?
3. Define obsessive compulsive disorder.
Specify the causes and signs and symptoms of OCD and role of nurse.
II. Write notes on: (10 x 5 50)
1. Group therapy.
2. Steps in history taking.
3. Care of suicide patient.
4. Antipsychotics.
5. Principles of Psychiatric Nursing.
6. Difference between mania and depression.
7. Misconceptions about mentally ill patients.
8. Types of personality.
9. Trends in psychiatric Nursing.
10. Legal responsibilities of mentally ill.
III. Short answers on: (10 x 2 20)
1. Mention any three defence mechanisms.
2. Define mental illness.
3. Define premorbid personality.
4. Characteristics of mentally healthy person.
5. Dementia.
6. Define delusion and illusion.
7. Define circumstantiality.
8. Any two antianxietry drugs.
9. Define conversion disorder.
10. Two objectives of national mental health programme.