Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing Handbook 2023-2024 Quiz

It presents clear signs and symptoms like other clinical subjects, but in a different language.

It provides clinical answers to many questions about patients' lives but uses difficult language. (correct)

It lacks clinical relevance and uses complex jargon, leading to disappointment.

It focuses on vague and wooly concepts, making it hard to understand.

Psychiatric patients exhibit obvious physical signs of illness.

Psychiatric patients have more complex medical histories and symptoms.

Psychiatric patients often appear well and disclaim symptoms with no obvious signs. (correct)

Psychiatric patients are usually uncooperative and resistant to treatment.

They have a higher pain tolerance than patients with physical illnesses.

They may hold false beliefs that alter their way of living. (correct)

They are more skilled at masking their symptoms than other patients.

They deliberately hide their symptoms and signs.

<p>Psychiatric patients often appear well with no obvious signs until their inner life is revealed. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It seems vague, wooly, and uses a difficult language. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers