Fundamental HESI EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+ ASSURED SUCCESS
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the purpose of therapeutic to allow the client to autonomy to make choices
interaction when appropriate. keep statements value-free,
advice free, and reassurance-free
what action should the nurse take in assess. example: if a client has schizophrenia
a psychiatric situation when the complains of chest pain take their blood pressure
client describes a physical
problem?
basic communication principles establish trust, nonjudgemental attitude,active
listening, offer self, accept client's feelings,
validate client's statements, matter of fact
approach
nausea is a common complaint after vomiting by an unconscious can lead to
ECT aspiration. maintain a paten airway
common physiological responses increased heart rate, and blood pressure, rapid
to anxiety shallow respirations, dry mouth, tight feeling in
throat, tremors, muscle twitching, anorexia,
urinary frequency, palmar sweating
,nurse-client anxiety anxiety is contagious, nurse needs to asses on
anxiety level and remain calm. it helps gain
control, decrease anxiety, and increase feelings
of security
desensitization is the nursing intervention for phobia disorders. --
assess client to recognize the factors associated
with feared stimuli.
-teach and practice with client alternative coping
strategies
-expose client to feared stimuli
-provide positive reinforcement
the nurse should place an anxious quiet area of the unit away from the nurse's
client where there are reduced station
environmental stimuli
the best time for interaction with a the client's anxiety is lowest at this time and its an
client is at the completion of the optimal time for learning
performed ritual
compulsive acts are used in its the nurse's responsibility help alleviate anxiety,
response to anxiety, which may or interfering will increase the anxiety
may not be related to the
obsession. its the nurse's
responsibility help alleviate anxiety
as long as the client's acts are free -actively listen to the clients obsessive themes
of violence: nurse should.... -acknowledge the effects that ritualistic acts have
on the client
-demonstrate empathy
-avoid being judgmental
, ford clients with PTSD, the nurse -actively listen to client's stories of experiences
should.... surrounding the traumatic event
-assess suicide risk
-assist client to develop objectivity about the
event and problem solve regarding possible
means of controlling anxiety related to the event
-encourage group therapy with other clients who
have experienced the same traumatic event
be aware of your own feelings the pain is real to the person experiencing it
when dealing with this somatoform
clients.
theses disorders cannot be -acknowledge the symptom or complaint
explained medically, it results from -reaffirm that diagnostic test results reveal no
internal conflict. the nurse should... organic pathology
-determine the secondary gains acquired by the
client
avoid giving clients with the various types of amnestic that accompany
dissociative disorders too much dissociative disorders provide protection from
information about past events at pain and too much to soon can cause
one time decompensation
personality disorders are long persons with personality disorders are usually
standing behavioral traits that are comfortable with their disorders and believe that
maladaptive responses to anxiety they are right and the world is wrong and have
and that cause difficulty in relating little motivation
to and working with other
individuals
people with anorexia gain pleasure these behaviors reinforce their perception of
from providing others with food self-control. don not allow these clients to plan
and watching them eat or prepare food for unit-based activities
ANSWERS GRADED A+ ASSURED SUCCESS
NEW UPDATE 2025/2026 (
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Terms in this set (319)
the purpose of therapeutic to allow the client to autonomy to make choices
interaction when appropriate. keep statements value-free,
advice free, and reassurance-free
what action should the nurse take in assess. example: if a client has schizophrenia
a psychiatric situation when the complains of chest pain take their blood pressure
client describes a physical
problem?
basic communication principles establish trust, nonjudgemental attitude,active
listening, offer self, accept client's feelings,
validate client's statements, matter of fact
approach
nausea is a common complaint after vomiting by an unconscious can lead to
ECT aspiration. maintain a paten airway
common physiological responses increased heart rate, and blood pressure, rapid
to anxiety shallow respirations, dry mouth, tight feeling in
throat, tremors, muscle twitching, anorexia,
urinary frequency, palmar sweating
,nurse-client anxiety anxiety is contagious, nurse needs to asses on
anxiety level and remain calm. it helps gain
control, decrease anxiety, and increase feelings
of security
desensitization is the nursing intervention for phobia disorders. --
assess client to recognize the factors associated
with feared stimuli.
-teach and practice with client alternative coping
strategies
-expose client to feared stimuli
-provide positive reinforcement
the nurse should place an anxious quiet area of the unit away from the nurse's
client where there are reduced station
environmental stimuli
the best time for interaction with a the client's anxiety is lowest at this time and its an
client is at the completion of the optimal time for learning
performed ritual
compulsive acts are used in its the nurse's responsibility help alleviate anxiety,
response to anxiety, which may or interfering will increase the anxiety
may not be related to the
obsession. its the nurse's
responsibility help alleviate anxiety
as long as the client's acts are free -actively listen to the clients obsessive themes
of violence: nurse should.... -acknowledge the effects that ritualistic acts have
on the client
-demonstrate empathy
-avoid being judgmental
, ford clients with PTSD, the nurse -actively listen to client's stories of experiences
should.... surrounding the traumatic event
-assess suicide risk
-assist client to develop objectivity about the
event and problem solve regarding possible
means of controlling anxiety related to the event
-encourage group therapy with other clients who
have experienced the same traumatic event
be aware of your own feelings the pain is real to the person experiencing it
when dealing with this somatoform
clients.
theses disorders cannot be -acknowledge the symptom or complaint
explained medically, it results from -reaffirm that diagnostic test results reveal no
internal conflict. the nurse should... organic pathology
-determine the secondary gains acquired by the
client
avoid giving clients with the various types of amnestic that accompany
dissociative disorders too much dissociative disorders provide protection from
information about past events at pain and too much to soon can cause
one time decompensation
personality disorders are long persons with personality disorders are usually
standing behavioral traits that are comfortable with their disorders and believe that
maladaptive responses to anxiety they are right and the world is wrong and have
and that cause difficulty in relating little motivation
to and working with other
individuals
people with anorexia gain pleasure these behaviors reinforce their perception of
from providing others with food self-control. don not allow these clients to plan
and watching them eat or prepare food for unit-based activities
