M.Sc-M.Sc Nursing 1st Year (Mental Health Nursing) Clinical Specialty-I (Kerala University of Health Sciences-2014)

Q.P.Code 105355                                              Reg. No.:…………………

First Year M.Sc Nursing Degree Examinations - September 2014

                                 (Mental Health Nursing)

                                          Clinical Specialty-I

 Time : 3 hrs                                                                           Max marks : 100

• Answer all questions.

Essays (4x20=80)

1. Explain the standards of psychiatric nursing practice. Discuss the issues and challenges in psychiatric nursing. (10+10=20)

2. Explain the techniques of therapeutic communication. Discuss therapeutic impasses  and its management. (10+10=20)

3. Classify the psychopharmacological agents used in psychiatry with examples. Explain the mechanism of action, side effects and nurse’s responsibilities for a patient receiving tab. amitriptyline. (10+10=20)

4. Enumerate the clinical features of schizophrenia. Discuss the nursing management of a client with paranoid schizophrenia applying the steps of nursing process. (8 + 12 += 20)

Short notes (4x5=20)

5. Techniques of counseling

6. Complications of alcohol abuse.

7. Documentation in psychiatric nursing

8. Cognitive development theory.


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