NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA
Plot 91, Cadastral Zone, Nnamdi Azikwe Express Way, Jabi, Abuja, FCT
Faculty of Health Sciences
Department of Nursing Sciences
July, 2018
Programme – Bachelor of Nursing Science
Course Code – NSS402
Course Credit Unit – 4
Course Title – Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing II
Time Allowed – 2 hours
Total Score – 70 marks
Instruction: Answer ALL questions
QUESTION1
Schizophrenia has been described as the ‘grand-father’ of mental disorders.
a. Define schizophrenia. (1 mark)
b. Enumerate the aetiologic factors of schizophrenia. (4marks)
c. List five (5) Kurt Schneider’s first rank symptoms of schizophrenia. (5marks)
d. List the types of schizophrenia. (7 marks)
e. Outline the interventions and rationales for a schizophrenic patient identified as having “Sensory-perceptual alteration: Auditory/visual” (8 marks).
QUESTION 2
Anxiety disorders are said to be the most common types of mental disorders globally.
a. In a tabular form, differentiate between psychosis and neurosis (10 marks)
b. Discuss briefly ‘phobia’ (8 marks)
c. Outline the key nursing intervention for the specific phobia (7 marks)
QUESTION 3
a. List any four (4) methods of assessments in psychiatry (4marks)
b. Outline any six (6) basic elements of Mental Status Examination (6mks)
c. Identify the goals of community mental health nursing (5mks)
d. List any five (5) methods used in practicing community psychiatry (5mks)
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