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LONG ESSAY

1. General principles and standards of mental health nursing in India
2. Discuss process recording and its use
   
3. Explain nurses role in community mental health nursing
   
4. Discuss in brief detoxification, antabuse, narcotic antagonist therapy and harm reduction of patient with substance use disorders
   
5. Describe etiology and psychopathology of patient with personality disorders
   
6. Historical development of community mental health services in India
   
7. Discuss the nature, settings and functions of contemporary psychiatric nursing practice
   
8. Mention types of substance abuse. Explain nursing care of patient with alcohol abuse
   
9. What is Bi-polar mood disorder. Explain care of patient with acute depression
   
10.  Discuss the admission and discharge procedures according to the mental health act
    
11.  Explain the different types of crisis and discuss in detail the steps of crisis interventions
    
12.  What are the clinical features of delirium. Explain the nursing management in acute delirium
    
13.  Define crisis and discuss nurses role in crisis intervention
    
14.  Describe nurses role in psychiatric rehabilitation
    
15.  Explain the admission and discharge procedures according to Indian mental health act
    
16.  Define mental health and mental illness. explain in detail the principles of mental health nursing
    
17.  Define BPAD and classify the various mood disorders. Discuss management of a depressed patient
    
18.  Define ECT. Describe care of a patient before, during and after ECT
    
19.  Define therapeutic communication. Explain the phases of therapeutic communication techniques
    
20.  What is electroconvulsive therapy. Explain the role of nurse in ECT
    
21.  What are the clinical features of catatonic schizophrenia. Explain the nursing management of a patient with catatonic schizophrenia
    
22.  Define community mental health nursing. Discuss the role of nurse in preventive psychiatry
    
23.  Define bipolar disorder. Explain the role of nurse in the care of a manic patient
    
24.  Define substance abuse. Explain the treatment and nursing management of patient with alcohol dependence syndrome
    
25.  Explain the etiology of psychophysiological disorders. Describe the management of patient with crohn’s disease
    
26.  Describe the clinical features in mania. Prepare a nursing care plan mania for a patient with manic episode
    
27.  Define mental retardation. Discuss the nursing management of a child with profound mental retardation
    
28.  National mental health program
    
29.  Therapeutic nurse-patient relationship
    
30.  Depressive disorder
    

 


SHORT ESSAYS

1. Classification of mental disorders
2. Interpersonal environment
   
3. Communication model
   
4. Toxins and poisons
   
5. Psycho-physiological disorder
   
6. List the functions of mental health team
   
7. Psychodrama
   
8. Discharge procedure
   
9. Tics disorder
   
10.  Theory of grief
    
11.  Theories of grieving process
    
12.  Obsessive compulsive disorders
    
13.  Forensic psychiatry
    
14.  Behavioral problems of adolescents
    
15.  Crisis intervention
    
16.  Neurological assessment
    
17.  Mental retardation
    
18.  Mental health team
    
19.  National mental health programme
    
20.  Purpose of nursing process in the psychiatric nursing
    
21.  Childhood schizophrenia
    
22.  Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
    
23.  Scope of psychiatric mental health nurse
    
24.  Describe the major concepts of community mental health
    
25.  Discuss the stages of family therapy
    
26.  Legal aspects of psychiatric nursing
    
27.  Anxiety
    
28.  Crisis intervention
    
29.  Play therapy
    
30.  Sociopathic reaction
    
31.  Benzodiazepines
    
32.  Narcissistic personality disorder
    
33. Clinical picture in generalized anxiety state
    
34.  Management in phobia
    
35.  Suicide prevention
    
36.  Antidepressants
    
37.  Criminal responsibility
    
38.  Levels of prevention
    
39.  Sexual disorders
    
40.   Characteristics of mentally healthy individual
    
41.  Classify personality disorders
    
42.  Neuro leptic malignant syndrome
    
43.  Conduct disorders
    
44.  Alcoholic anonymous
    
45.  Care of patient with suspicious behavior
    
46.  Lithium carbonate
    
47.  Milieu therapy
    
48.  Day care centres
    
49.  Any five general principles of psychiatric nursing
    
50.  Alcohol dependence syndrome
    
51.  Explain signs and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and briefly explain the nursing management for a patient with PTSD
    
52.  Describe etiological factors, and signs and symptom of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
    
53.  Occupational therapy
    
54.  Mental health issues among elderly
    
55.   Explain therapeutic impasses and interventions for overcoming them
    
56.  Explain the current trends in mental health nursing
    
57.  Differentiate institutionalization and de-institutionalization
    
58.  Types of admission and discharge for mentally ill
    
59.   Johari window
    
60.  Existential model
    
61.  Difference between normal and abnormal behavior
    
62.  Explain the role of nurse in occupational therapy
    
63.  Antipsyhotics
    
64.  Obsessive compulsive disorder
    
65.  Therapeutic community
    
66.  Discharge procedure
    
67.  Group therapy
    
68.  Techniques of therapeutic communication
    
69.  Concept of normal and abnormal behavior
    
70.  Antidepressant
    
71.   Civil right of mentally ill
    
72.  Alternative system of medicine
    
73.  Somatoform disorder
    
74.  Management of patient with aggressive behavior
    
75.  Phobia
    
76.  Nursing management of patient with narcotic withdrawals
    
77.  Enuresis
    
78.  Extra pyramidal reactions
    
79.  Half way homes
    
80.  History collection in psychiatry
    
81.  Concepts of normalcy and abnormalcy
    
82.  Psychosomatic disorders
    
83.  Anti-psychotic drugs
    
84.  Substance abuse
    
85.  Conduct disorder
    
86.  Obsessive compulsive disorder
    
87.  Epilepsy
    
88.  Rehabilitation
    

 


SHORT ANSWERS

1. Free association
2. Half way home
   
3. Delusion
   
4. Neologism
   
5. Word salad
   
6. Auditory hallucination
   
7. Thought broadcasting
   
8. Rapport
   
9. Fetish
   
10. Atypical antipsychotic
    
11.  Token economy
    
12.  Intelligent quotient
    
13.  Delusion
    
14.  Auditory hallucination
    
15.  Sheltered workshop
    
16.  Lithium
    
17.  Projection
    
18.  Echolalia
    
19.  Aversion therapy
    
20.  Cognitive development
    
21.  Detoxification
    
22.  Genuineness
    
23.  Integration
    
24.  Magical thinking
    
25. Mental imagery
    
26.  Phobias
    
27.  Reaction formation
    
28.  Selective abstraction
    
29.  Abreaction
    
30.  Delusion of reference
    
31.  Alcohol withdrawal symptoms
    
32.  Contraindications for electro convulsive therapy
    
33.  Voyeurism
    
34.   Transference
    
35.  Reception order
    
36.  Define dementia
    
37.  Childhood autism
    
38.  Echolalia
    
39.  Agoraphobia
    
40.  Mood and affect
    
41.  Hypochondriasis
    
42.  Reaction formation
    
43.  Biofeed back
    
44.  Neurosis and psychosis
    
45.  Narco-analysis
    
46.  Oculogyric crisis
    
47.  Guided imagery
    
48.  Rum fits
    
49.  Advantages of token economy
    
50.  Indications of light therapy
    
51.  Types of crisis
    
52.   Meaning of enuresis
    
53.  List the sexual disorders
    
54.  Antabuse drugs
    
55.  Meaning of obsession
    
56.  List the types of phobia
    
57.  Leave of absence
    
58.  Dementia
    
59.  Grief
    
60.  Forensic psychiatry
    
61.  Fugue
    
62.  Cataplexy
    
63.  Aphasia
    
64.  Verbigeration
    
65.  Neologism
    
66.  Perseveration
    
67.  Labile affect
    
68.  Cyclothymia
    
69.  Ambivalence
    
70.  Delusion
    
71.  Flight of ideas
    
72.  Confabulation
    
73.  Transvestism
    
74.  Attention deficit hyper active disorder
    
75.  Process recording
    
76.  Token economy
    
77.  Akathesia
    
78.  Differentiate between psychosis and neurosis
    
79.  Purposes of ego defense mechanism
    
80.  Enumerate stages of grieving
    
81.  Testamentary capacity
    
82.  Cognitive behavior therapy
    
83.  Objective of national mental health programme
    
84.  Purpose of classification of mental disorders
    
85.  Disorders of perception
    
86.  Psychosexual disorders
    
87.  Patient rights
    
88.  Disulfuram drug
    
89.  Amnesia
    
90.  Insight
    
91.  Grandiose delusion
    
92.  Play therapy
    
93.  Hypnosis
    
94.  Definition of mental health nursing
    

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