You are working on a mental health unit and have a diverse group of patients. Some of the patients are of Middle Eastern descent. These patients have communicated to you that they would like to follow the same period for praying as they did prior to admission.

What is your response?

The act of developing a clean environment is a factor in providing effective health care as demonstrated by:

Order reads Wellbutrin 150 mg po daily. On hand the nurse has 50 mg tablets. How many tablets will the nurse administer?

Enter your answer in numbers.

The set of rules designed to protect patients who are described as vulnerable are known as?

A nurse is interacting with a client who is expressing her feelings about her child’s insensitive behavior. Which statement made by the nurse indicates the nurse is empathizing with the client?

Choose the best answer.

The mentally ill were once housed in mental institutions known as:

While the nurse is talking with a female client, the client becomes quiet for several hours. Which is the nurse’s best response?

The following types of patients require adaptive communication techniques: (Select all that apply)

Nurses who care for patients who are homeless understand that the in the United States:

A nurse is caring for a client on an acute care mental health unit who was involuntarily admitted for 72 hr. after attacking a neighbor.

To keep the client in the hospital when the initial time to hold the client expires, which of the following must be determined?

A male client is seeking help in a mental health clinic for anger management problems. He voices that he is fearful that his wife may divorce him because of his anger problem, and he is willing to do “whatever it takes’ to control his anger. Later in the week, the client’s wife also seeks assistance because she is going to divorce her husband.

The nurse who is caring for both of these clients tries to decide the correct action to take. The nurse is experiencing: