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1) acute care mental facility newly dx w antisocial - include in plan of care?
- Correct Answer ✅💯setting clear rules and expectations for the client's
behavior
2) admits to eating disorder program - now 85 pounds - early manifestation
of anorexia? - Correct Answer ✅💯amenorrhea
3) admitted recently w schizo, paranoid - several verbal outbursts - pacing
up and down - do first? - Correct Answer ✅💯observe the client's
behavior and approach him in a non-threatening way
4) admitted yed w alcoholism - "i have not had anything to drink for 24
hours" - anxious and shaky - other behaviors expected? - Correct Answer
✅💯coarse tremors, tachycardia, insomnia
5) admitting a client to outpatient for a second series of ECT - give
immediate consideration w which statement? - Correct Answer ✅💯"I
only ate a light breakfast this morning"
6) after a depressed client is discharged, client's spouse stops attending
family counseling sessions - "i don't have time" - therapeutic response? -
Correct Answer ✅💯"it must be difficult for you to talk about these
family problems"
7) alzheimer's disease agitated and combative when approached for nursing
care - appropriate action? - Correct Answer ✅💯remain calm and talk
quietly to the client
8) appropriate short term goal for a client exhibiting manic behavior? -
Correct Answer ✅💯painting alone for 15 minutes
9) assessment of newly admitted - dependence on lorazepam (ativan) -
appropriate action? - Correct Answer ✅💯taper the med gradually
10) benzo - most common SE? - Correct Answer ✅💯sedation
11) best justification for involuntary admission is which? - Correct
Answer ✅💯the client exhibits behavior that is either a threat to himself
or others
12) brought to er by 2 friends who report OD of heroin - narcan -
monitor for what? - Correct Answer ✅💯respiratory depression
13) caring for a client w agoraphobia - most effective technique? -
Correct Answer ✅💯gradual desensitization by controlled exposure to
the situation of client fears
14) caring for client admitted w ETOH detox - commonly used to
manage? - Correct Answer ✅💯antianxiety agents