Role and Scope of Practice
Theoretical Basis of Care
Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology, and Behavior
Pharmacology
Brain Blast
100

The client's right to assume that information given to the healthcare provider will not be disclosed

Confidentiality 

100

Displacement of feelings for significant people in the client's past onto the provider in the present relationship

Transference

100

The basic cellular unit of the nervous system

Neuron

100

This drug is the mainstay treatment for mania

Lithium

100

What can fill a room but takes up no space?



Light

200

The communication process between the provider and the client that results in the client's acceptance or rejection of the proposed treatment

Informed consent

200

Theory that posits conscious behaviors and choices are affected by unconscious mental content

Psychodynamic (Psychoanalytic) Theory 

200

Lobes of the brain

Frontal

Temporal 

Occipital

Parietal 

200

What is the top nursing consideration of a nurse who is taking care of an adult client with schizophrenia receiving antipsychotics? 

A. Monitor urine output.
B. Obtain ECG tracing regularly as ordered.
C. Assess bowel sounds.
D. Provide comfort measures.

B. Obtain ECG tracing regularly as ordered.

200

What belongs to you, but everyone else uses it?


Your name


300

Ethical principle of telling the truth

Veracity

300

Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Order (Bottom-Top)

Survival 

Safety and Security

Love and Belonging 

Self-esteem

Self-actualization


300

Neurotransmitter associated with Alzheimer's disease and impaired memory in decreased amounts

Acetylcholine

300

Loxapine, thiothixene, and fluphenazine belong to which psychotherapeutic agent classification?

Typical antipsychotics

300

What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?

Teapot

400

Treating clients from diverse backgrounds, viewing each client as a unique person, and noting a potential relationship between clients' cultural experiences and their symptom presentation and perceptions

Culturally competent care

400

Interpersonal Theory Founder

-Sees nursing as an interpersonal process in which all interventions occur within the context of the nurse-client relationship

Hildegard Peplau 

400

Name 4 common neurotransmitters associated with psychiatric disorders

Acetylcholine

Dopamine

Serotonin

GABA

Glutamate

Opioid neuropeptides

400

Which of the following is the most important patient education for a patient receiving CNS stimulants?

A. Proper storage of drugs
B. Low-sodium diet
C. Light to moderate exercises
D. All of the above.  

A. Proper storage of drugs

400

You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?

The letter "E"


500

Differentiate between:

Licensure

Credentialing

Certification 

Licensure: process by which an agency of state government grants permission to persons to engage in the practice of that profession

Credentialing: Process used to protect the public by ensuring a minimum level of professional competence

Certification: Process by which a a professional organization or association certifies that a person licensed to practice as a professional has met certain predetermined standards 

500

Name 5 defense mechanisms 

Denial

Projection

Regression

Reaction formation

Repression

Rationalization

Undoing

Intellectualization

Suppression

Sublimation

Altruism 

500

List the monoamines 

Dopamine

Norepinephrine

Epinephrine

Serotonin

500

Name Five Types of Antidepressants

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)

Serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) 

Noradrenaline and specific serotonergic antidepressants (NASSAs) 

Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) 

Serotonin antagonists and reuptake inhibitors (SARIs) 

Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)



500

Turn me on my side, and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?

The number 8