Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Quiz Questions

Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Quiz Questions

This is 20 Nursing Quiz Questions having 5 marks for each right
answer. You can watch the above-embedded video before trying this
nursing quiz and evaluate your knowledge and try again and again to
achieve your set goal.


  1. Flight of idea refers to?
  2. Pattern of rapid transition
    from topic to topic.
    Repetition of word
    heard.
    New words invented by
    patient.
    Use of rhyming words.

  3. A patient with an alcohol addiction says, “My drinking is all mywife’s fault. She makes me so crazy I just have to have a drink.” This is an example of?
  4. Projection.
    Denial.
    Intellectualization.
    Regression

  5. Which of the following nurse’s advice is most important for apatient who takes lithium for manic episodes, has been walking daily?
  6. She should stay in the
    shade when she walks.
    She should stop walking.
    She will need to maintain
    her hydration to avoid lithium toxicity.
    She can continue her
    exercise because lithium toxicity is very rare.

  7. A patient is passing urine every time when he coughs, this istermed as?
  8. Reflex incontinence.
    Overflow incontinence.
    Urge incontinence.
    Stress incontinence.

  9. The leading cause of death in adolescence is?
  10. Homicide.
    Hepatitis A.
    Accidents.
    Malnutrition.

  11. Most common cause of dementia?
  12. Stroke.
    Aging.
    Alzheimer’s disease.
    Parkinson’s disease.


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  13. Contraindication for group therapy?
  14. Homogeneous group.
    Patient’s with personality
    disorders.
    Antisocial patients.
    Families and couples.

  15. The Four A’s of schizophrenia includes all except?
  16. Autistic thinking.
    Associative looseness.
    Ambivalence.
    Hopelessness.

  17. Common signs of depression are all except?
  18. Apathy.
    Sadness.
    Hopelessness.
    Increased psychomotor
    activity.

  19. The delusional belief that others, oneself or the world do notexist?
  20. Primary delusion.
    Nihilistic delusion.
    Delusion of reference.
    Delusion of
    persecution.

  21. A form of self evaluation that helps nurse to judge personal performance and make judgment about personal practice?
  22. Recollection.
    Regression.
    Repression.
    Reflection.

  23. The conflict carried out by individuals not for themselves but for an ideal?
  24. Positive conflict.
    Direct Conflict.
    Indirect conflict.
    Class conflict.

  25. A process of redirecting the energy produced by unacceptable desires or activities so that they can become socially acceptable?
  26. Reaction formation.
    Projection.
    Identification.
    Sublimation.

  27. The extra pyramidal side effects of an antipsychotic agents are managed with following group of drugs except?
  28. Dopamine drugs.
    Anticholinergic.
    Antihistamines.
    Barbiturates.


    Burns Nursing Quiz Questions

  29. Among the following which one is a delusional disorder?
  30. Trance.
    Capgras syndrome.
    Dissociative fugue.
    Ganser’s syndrome.

  31. Which of the following is used in drug dependence to prevent relapse?
  32. Naloxone.
    Naltrexone.
    Neuroleptic.
    Nomifensine.

  33. The most commonest psychiatric disorder after head injury?
  34. Mania.
    Schizophrenia.
    Depression.
    Phobia.

  35. Pre occupation with a fear of having serious physical illness, not based on organic pathology?
  36. Psychosomatic disorder.
    Hypochondriasis.
    Somatopsychic disorder.
    OCD.

  37. Hypnotherapy is least effective in people suffering from?
  38. Schizophrenia.
    Pain.
    Phobias.
    Anxiety disorder.

  39. Alfred Binet is associated with?
  40. Intelligence test.
    Personality test.
    Aptitude test.
    Attitude test.

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Mental Health Nursing Quiz


  1. The nurse would describe a patient who has a functional interaction of his cognitive, affective,
  2. Effectively organized
    Personally satisfied
    Well rounded
    Mentally healthy

  3. Which of these item is an example of positive stressors?
  4. Test anxiety
    Loss of a job
    Paying income tax
    Single motherhood

  5. The behaviour that best examplifies developmental activities in a 13 year old is?
  6. Going out with a group of friends
    Reading an exciting book
    Volunteering for a local hospital
    Choosing a career

  7. The mother of a 5 year old patient says that she is just mortified by his rude vocabulary since he
  8. Ignore it
    Speak to his teacher about it
    Praise him when he spoke properly
    Talk about it at the PTA

  9. The wife of a critically injured husband has been at bedside for 2 days, he has been at bedside
  10. Fear
    Denial
    Compensation
    Stress


Psychiatric Nursing Questions


  1. Unconscious process in which the client blocks undesirable and unacceptable thoughts termed as?
  2. Repression
    Suppression
    Sublimation
    Denial


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  3. During the failure of an attempt, the chief is criticizing his assistants and equipments. This type mental mechanism is termed as?
  4. Displacement
    Projection
    Rationalization
    Intellectualization

  5. “Sour grapes” attitude suggests the reflects of?
  6. Regression
    Substitution
    Rationalization
    Projection

  7. An adult shows – childhood behaviour during the late stage of illness. Here his is adapting to the situation with?
  8. Repression
    Sublimation
    Regression
    Attention seeking

  9. Which of the following communication technique can be applied in mental status examination?
  10. Using open end question
    Using closed end question
    Using yes or no question
    Only observation

  11. Fear of an open space is termed as?
  12. Agoraphobia
    Astraphobia
    Social phobia
    Monophobia

  13. Waxy flexibility is the characteristic feature of?
  14. Paranoid schizophrenia
    Disorganized schizophrenia
    Catatonic schizophrenia
    Residual schizophrenia

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