AMREF Virtual Nursing School End of Module Four Examination, Paper One: Psychiatric Nursing, Ward Management and Leadership

The Paper One end-of-module-four examination for the September 2008 class, sat on Wednesday 15th September 2010 over three hours. The first part is psychiatric nursing - the disorders that follow damage to the basal ganglia, the global disturbance of cognitive function that develops within hours, the key symptoms of clinical depression, the presentations of social phobia, the neurotransmitter with antidepressant property, the specific nursing intervention for a patient on major tranquillizers, what Freudian theory reads from a set of behaviours, what the nurse assesses at axis three of the DSM-IV multiaxial assessment, the technique used to investigate unconscious processes, the purpose of psychological debriefing and the features of team nursing. The management items that follow cover the steps of the budgeting process, staff coaching and what people do not resist change for.