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Question 1 of 5

The nurse is working as part of the interdisciplinary staff of a psychiatric inpatient facility who are developing discharge plans for a patient who requires alternative housing arrangements. The patient will be referred to a personal care home. When explaining this housing arrangement to the patient, which of the following would the nurse include?

A. You'll be living with a family in their home, and the family will help supervise and support you.'

B. You'll be living in an apartment with a roommate, and a staff member will come by to check on you.'

C. You'll be living in a house with about 50 other people and receive 24-hour supervision and assistance.'

D. You'll be living in a house with about six to 10 other people, and a health care attendant will provide 24-hour supervision.'

Expert Explanatory Rationale

Correct Answer: You'll be living in a house with about six to 10 other people, and a health care attendant will provide 24-hour supervision.'

Question 2 of 5

The nurse is caring for a family whose older father with dementia is living in their home. The nurse has instructed the family about how to decrease the father's agitation. The nurse determines that the son has understood the nurse's instructions when he states which of the following?

A. Restraints can help reduce my father's agitation.

B. I should place my father in the bedroom with me so I can watch him more closely.

C. It's important that he gets out shopping with me or my wife.

D. If I simplify our home environment, my father may be less agitated.

Expert Explanatory Rationale

Correct Answer: If I simplify our home environment, my father may be less agitated.

Question 3 of 5

A client has been placed in seclusion because the client has been deemed a danger to others. Which is the priority nursing intervention for this client?

A. Have little contact with the client to decrease stimulation.

B. Provide the client with privacy to maintain confidentiality.

C. Maintain contact and assure the client that seclusion will maintain the client's safety.

D. Teach the client relaxation techniques and effective coping strategies to deal with anger.

Expert Explanatory Rationale

Correct Answer: Maintain contact and assure the client that seclusion will maintain the client's safety.

Question 4 of 5

A patient with a history of anger and impulsivity was hospitalized after an accident resulting in multiple injuries. The patient loudly scolds nursing staff, 'I'm in pain all the time but you don't give me medicine until YOU think it's time.' Which nursing intervention would best address this problem?

A. Teach the patient to use coping strategies such as deep breathing and progressive relaxation to reduce the pain.

B. Talk with the health care provider about changing the pain medication from prn to patient-controlled analgesi

C. Tell the patient that verbal assaults on nurses will not shorten the wait for analgesic medication.

D. Talk with the patient about the risks of dependency associated with overuse of analgesic medication.

Expert Explanatory Rationale

Correct Answer: Talk with the health care provider about changing the pain medication from prn to patient-controlled analgesi

Question 5 of 5

A nursing instructor is explaining to a group of nursing students that in addition to facing the stigma associated with being mentally ill, forensic clients who are mentally ill also experience the stigma associated with being a criminal. One of the students asks the instructor how the stigma associated with criminality might influence nursing care. Which response by the instructor would be most appropriate?

A. Nurses may be reluctant to care for mentally ill criminals because of unrealistic fears for their own safety and that of their other clients.

B. Nurses may prefer to care for forensic clients because they do not believe criminals can be mentally ill.

C. An example would be volunteering to work only with forensic clients because of the belief that forensic clients experience only mild mental health problems.

D. An example would be unfounded fear of what such clients might do after they are discharged from treatment.

Expert Explanatory Rationale

Correct Answer: Nurses may be reluctant to care for mentally ill criminals because of unrealistic fears for their own safety and that of their other clients.

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