CHAPTER 7. RELATIONSHIP
DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS PASS GUARANTEED 100% ✅
What is the most essential task for a nurse to accomplish prior to forming a therapeutic
relationship with a client?
A. To clarify personal attitudes, values, and beliefs
B. To obtain thorough assessment data
C. To determine the client's length of stay
D. To establish personal goals for the interaction - Answer ✅ANS: A
The most essential task for a nurse to accomplish prior to forming a therapeutic relationship
with a client is to clarify personal attitudes, values, and beliefs. Understanding one's own
attitudes, values, and beliefs is called self-awareness.
KEY: Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Integrated Processes: Nursing Process: Implementation |
Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity
A hungry, homeless client, diagnosed with schizophrenia, refuses to participate in an admission
interview. When the nurse postpones the admission interview, verbally assures safety, and
provides a warm meal, he or she is promoting which of the following?
A. Sympathy
B. Trust
C. Veracity
D. Manipulation - Answer ✅ANS: B
The nurse is promoting trust by postponing the admission interview, assuring safety, and
providing a warm meal. Trust implies a feeling of confidence that a person is reliable and sincere
@2025 Exam Material 1
, and has integrity and veracity. Trustworthiness is demonstrated through nursing interventions
that convey a sense of warmth and caring to the client.
KEY: Cognitive Level: Application | Integrated Processes: Nursing Process: Implementation |
Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity
Which is the best nursing action when a client demonstrates transference toward a nurse?
A. Promoting safety and immediately terminating the relationship with the client
B. Encouraging the client to ignore these thoughts and feelings
C. Immediately reassigning the client to another staff member
D. Helping the client to clarify the meaning of the current nurse-client relationship - Answer
✅ANS: D
The nurse should respond to a client's transference by clarifying the meaning of the nurse-client
relationship, based on the current situation. Transference occurs when the client unconsciously
displaces feelings toward the nurse about a person from the past. The nurse should assist the
client in separating the past from the present.
KEY: Cognitive Level: Application | Integrated Processes: Nursing Process: Implementation |
Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity
What is the priority nursing action during the orientation (introductory) phase of the nurse-
client relationship?
A. Acknowledge the client's actions and generate alternative behaviors.
B. Establish rapport and develop treatment goals.
C. Attempt to find alternative placement.
D. Explore how thoughts and feelings about this client may adversely impact care. - Answer
✅ANS: B
The priority nursing action during the orientation phase of the nurse-client relationship should
be to establish rapport and develop treatment goals. Rapport implies feelings on the part of
@2025 Exam Material 2
DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS PASS GUARANTEED 100% ✅
What is the most essential task for a nurse to accomplish prior to forming a therapeutic
relationship with a client?
A. To clarify personal attitudes, values, and beliefs
B. To obtain thorough assessment data
C. To determine the client's length of stay
D. To establish personal goals for the interaction - Answer ✅ANS: A
The most essential task for a nurse to accomplish prior to forming a therapeutic relationship
with a client is to clarify personal attitudes, values, and beliefs. Understanding one's own
attitudes, values, and beliefs is called self-awareness.
KEY: Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Integrated Processes: Nursing Process: Implementation |
Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity
A hungry, homeless client, diagnosed with schizophrenia, refuses to participate in an admission
interview. When the nurse postpones the admission interview, verbally assures safety, and
provides a warm meal, he or she is promoting which of the following?
A. Sympathy
B. Trust
C. Veracity
D. Manipulation - Answer ✅ANS: B
The nurse is promoting trust by postponing the admission interview, assuring safety, and
providing a warm meal. Trust implies a feeling of confidence that a person is reliable and sincere
@2025 Exam Material 1
, and has integrity and veracity. Trustworthiness is demonstrated through nursing interventions
that convey a sense of warmth and caring to the client.
KEY: Cognitive Level: Application | Integrated Processes: Nursing Process: Implementation |
Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity
Which is the best nursing action when a client demonstrates transference toward a nurse?
A. Promoting safety and immediately terminating the relationship with the client
B. Encouraging the client to ignore these thoughts and feelings
C. Immediately reassigning the client to another staff member
D. Helping the client to clarify the meaning of the current nurse-client relationship - Answer
✅ANS: D
The nurse should respond to a client's transference by clarifying the meaning of the nurse-client
relationship, based on the current situation. Transference occurs when the client unconsciously
displaces feelings toward the nurse about a person from the past. The nurse should assist the
client in separating the past from the present.
KEY: Cognitive Level: Application | Integrated Processes: Nursing Process: Implementation |
Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity
What is the priority nursing action during the orientation (introductory) phase of the nurse-
client relationship?
A. Acknowledge the client's actions and generate alternative behaviors.
B. Establish rapport and develop treatment goals.
C. Attempt to find alternative placement.
D. Explore how thoughts and feelings about this client may adversely impact care. - Answer
✅ANS: B
The priority nursing action during the orientation phase of the nurse-client relationship should
be to establish rapport and develop treatment goals. Rapport implies feelings on the part of
@2025 Exam Material 2
