NSG 526 EXAM 3 EXAM SCRIPT 2026
CRITICAL CARE PATIENT MANAGEMENT
COMPLETE SOLUTION VIEW
◉ Narcissistic PD
Answer: raits of a client with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
o
Grandiosity, fantasies of power or brilliance, need to be admired,
sense of entitlement,
arrogant, patronizing, rude, overestimates self and underestimates
others.
o
Behavior covers a fragile ego.
o
In health care setting, they demand the best of everything.
o
When client is corrected, when boundaries are defined, or when
limits are set on client's
behavior, client feels humiliated, degraded, and empty.
To lower anxiety the client may launch a counterattack.
o
, The nurse should gently help the client identify attempts to seek and
become perfect,
exhibit grandiose behavior, and sense of entitlement
◉ Histrionic PD
Answer: Center of attention; flamboyant; seductive or provocative
behaviors; shallow, rapidly shifting
emotions; dramatic expression of emotions; overly concerned with
impressing others;
exaggerates degree of intimacy with others; self-aggrandizing;
preoccupied with own
appearance.
Experience depression when admiration of others is not given.
Suicide gestures may result in client entry into the health care
system.
o
A thorough assessment of suicide potential must be undertaken, and
support offered in
the form of clear parameters of psychotherapy.
◉ Antisocial PD
CRITICAL CARE PATIENT MANAGEMENT
COMPLETE SOLUTION VIEW
◉ Narcissistic PD
Answer: raits of a client with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
o
Grandiosity, fantasies of power or brilliance, need to be admired,
sense of entitlement,
arrogant, patronizing, rude, overestimates self and underestimates
others.
o
Behavior covers a fragile ego.
o
In health care setting, they demand the best of everything.
o
When client is corrected, when boundaries are defined, or when
limits are set on client's
behavior, client feels humiliated, degraded, and empty.
To lower anxiety the client may launch a counterattack.
o
, The nurse should gently help the client identify attempts to seek and
become perfect,
exhibit grandiose behavior, and sense of entitlement
◉ Histrionic PD
Answer: Center of attention; flamboyant; seductive or provocative
behaviors; shallow, rapidly shifting
emotions; dramatic expression of emotions; overly concerned with
impressing others;
exaggerates degree of intimacy with others; self-aggrandizing;
preoccupied with own
appearance.
Experience depression when admiration of others is not given.
Suicide gestures may result in client entry into the health care
system.
o
A thorough assessment of suicide potential must be undertaken, and
support offered in
the form of clear parameters of psychotherapy.
◉ Antisocial PD
