Mental Health Chapter 1 - Exam 2
Total Questions : 41
Showing 25 questions, Sign in for moreA long-term goal for in patient mental health treatment is generally to:
A breakthrough of the 1950s that assisted in the deinstitutionalization movement was:
A nurse is working with a patient and atempts to communicate effectively with him or her. Techniques the nurse can use to help communication include: (Select all that apply)
Nurses who care for patients who are homeless understand that the in the United States:
A client can be involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric facility for the following reasons: (Select all that apply)
Which nursing theorists promoted the interpersonal theory between patient and nurse?
Linda is pacing the floor and appears extremely anxious. The daily shift nurse approaches Linda to lessen her anxiety. The most therapeutic statement by the nurse would be:
The following types of patients require adaptive communication techniques: (Select all that apply)
Which question asked by the nurse would gain the most information from a patient experiencing marital crisis?
The nurse in the Emergency Department finds a woman collapsed on the floor and crying loudly. The woman’s husband was in a car accident and is being attended by the medical staff.
Which statement by the medical nurse best demonstrates acting in a culturally competent manner?
A nurse tells a client that she will be back in 10 minutes to re-assess the client’s pain. When the nurse returns in 10 minutes, which aspect of the therapeutic relationship is the nurse developing?
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.
Which nurse responses could block effective communication with a client?
(Select all that apply)
A female client tells the nurse that she feels very depressed about her recent divorce. Which of the following is the nurses best therapeutic response?
While dining in a restaurant the nurse overhears two co-workers in the next booth discussing a client who is being cared for on the mental health unit which they work.
What action have the nurse’s co-workers committed for which they could be held liable for?
While the nurse is talking with a female client, the client becomes quiet for several hours. Which is the nurse’s best response?
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?
The nursing student is assigned a client to interview and is asked to practice the therapeutic communication techniques of stating the implied and making and observation about their behavior.
Which statement by the student nurse best describes the technique?
An order written by the physician is reviewed by the nursing staff, and no one is familiar with the treatment instructions. A nurse who is recently hired knows that this treatment is covered by the states nurse practice act.
What is the nurses’ best course of action?
The nurse’s ability to use therapeutic communication effectively in the mental health setting depends on:
An example of a client who requires emergency admission to a mental hospital is one who has been diagnosed with:
While working as nurse in a hospital you notice that a co-worker has unsteady gait and slurred speech. You suspect that she may be an impaired nurse.
Which of the following will be the appropriate action to take?
During a client nurse interaction, which nursing statement may give the client false reassurance?
The capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other persons frame of reference i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another person’s position:
The set of rules designed to protect patients who are described as vulnerable are known as?
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