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

The Paper One end-of-module-four examination for the March 2009 class, sat on Monday 21st March 2011 over three hours. The multiple choice items cover the antipsychotic that is not atypical, the personality disorder of intense feelings about other people, identity confusion and fear of abandonment, the drug of choice in bipolar disorder, the presentation of a child with moderate mental retardation, what the nurse should do during a psychiatric interview, the neurotransmitter altered in schizophrenia, the DSM-IV criterion that does not belong to a manic episode, psychosis related to pregnancy and childbearing and the condition in which symptoms of physical illness occur without organic disease. The written part asks for four indications for electroconvulsive therapy, specific nursing interventions for each of the named disorders, the components of the mental status examination, then the leadership items - the purposes of performance appraisal, the guidelines to effective delegation, the principles of management and the steps in preparing staff schedules.