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Guide Questions & Expertly Verified
Quiz_________________?
A 22 year old college student is admitted to hospital following a suicide attempt and states,
"No one will ever love a loser like me." According to Erikson's theory of personality
development, a nurse should recognize a deficit in which developmental stage? -
Answer✅
Intimacy vs Isolation
Quiz_________________?
A 29-year-old client living with parents has few interpersonal relationships. The client states,
"I have trouble trusting people." Based on Erikson's developmental theory, which should the
nurse recognize as true statements about the client? -
Answer✅
The client has not progressed beyond the trust vs. mistrust development stage.
Developmental deficits in earlier life stages have impaired the client's adult functioning.
Quiz_________________?
A 4-year old child grabs toys from siblings, saying, "I want that toy now!" The siblings cry
and the child's parent becomes upset with the behavior. Using Freudian theory, a nurse can
interpret the child's behavior as a product of impulses originating in the: -
1
, Answer✅
Id
Quiz_________________?
A brother calls to speak to his sister who has been admitted to the psychiatric unit. The
nurse connects him to the community phone and the sister is summoned. Later the nurse
realizes that the brother was not on the client's approved call list. What law has the nurse
broken? -
Answer✅
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Quiz_________________?
A client has been involuntarily admitted to an inpatient behavioral health unit. During this
admission, which of the following rights does the client still retain? -
Answer✅
The right to refuse medications
The right to informed consent
Quiz_________________?
A client on a psychiatric unit says "It's a waste of time to be here. I cant talk to you or
anyone." Which would be an appropriate therapeutic nursing response? -
Answer✅
Are you feeling that no one understands?
Quiz_________________?
2
, A client tells a nurse that he hates his doctor and plans to hurt the doctor, but she did not
report this prior to leaving. When the nurse returns to work the next day, she finds that
the physician has been brutally beaten by the client and the physician is hospitalized. Which
of the following best represents the nurse's failure to act by not reporting the client's intent?
-
Answer✅
Negligence
Quiz_________________?
A client was recently admitted to the inpatient unit after a suicide attempt and has not
responded to SSRIs or tricyclic antidepressants. The client asks the nurse, "I heard about
MAOIs (monoamine oxidase inhibitors). Why can't they be added to what I am on now?
Wouldn't adding one help?" Which is the appropriate nursing response? -
Answer✅
"Combined use can lead to a life-threatening condition called hypertensive crisis."
Quiz_________________?
A client who is very dirty and has an offensive odor refused to take a shower when he was
admitted to the psychiatric inpatient unit of the hospital. He yelled, "No, no, no bath!" when
two staff members carried him into the shower and made him wash himself thoroughly
before allowing him to leave the shower area. Which of these statements is correct
regarding this patient's rights? -
Answer✅
This was a violation of the patients rights because the patient was restrained by force.
Quiz_________________?
A client with schizophrenia has recently begun a new medication, clozapine (Clozaril).
Which signs and symptoms of a potentially fatal side effect with the nurse teach the client
about? -
Answer✅
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Guide Questions & Expertly Verified
Quiz_________________?
A 22 year old college student is admitted to hospital following a suicide attempt and states,
"No one will ever love a loser like me." According to Erikson's theory of personality
development, a nurse should recognize a deficit in which developmental stage? -
Answer✅
Intimacy vs Isolation
Quiz_________________?
A 29-year-old client living with parents has few interpersonal relationships. The client states,
"I have trouble trusting people." Based on Erikson's developmental theory, which should the
nurse recognize as true statements about the client? -
Answer✅
The client has not progressed beyond the trust vs. mistrust development stage.
Developmental deficits in earlier life stages have impaired the client's adult functioning.
Quiz_________________?
A 4-year old child grabs toys from siblings, saying, "I want that toy now!" The siblings cry
and the child's parent becomes upset with the behavior. Using Freudian theory, a nurse can
interpret the child's behavior as a product of impulses originating in the: -
1
, Answer✅
Id
Quiz_________________?
A brother calls to speak to his sister who has been admitted to the psychiatric unit. The
nurse connects him to the community phone and the sister is summoned. Later the nurse
realizes that the brother was not on the client's approved call list. What law has the nurse
broken? -
Answer✅
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Quiz_________________?
A client has been involuntarily admitted to an inpatient behavioral health unit. During this
admission, which of the following rights does the client still retain? -
Answer✅
The right to refuse medications
The right to informed consent
Quiz_________________?
A client on a psychiatric unit says "It's a waste of time to be here. I cant talk to you or
anyone." Which would be an appropriate therapeutic nursing response? -
Answer✅
Are you feeling that no one understands?
Quiz_________________?
2
, A client tells a nurse that he hates his doctor and plans to hurt the doctor, but she did not
report this prior to leaving. When the nurse returns to work the next day, she finds that
the physician has been brutally beaten by the client and the physician is hospitalized. Which
of the following best represents the nurse's failure to act by not reporting the client's intent?
-
Answer✅
Negligence
Quiz_________________?
A client was recently admitted to the inpatient unit after a suicide attempt and has not
responded to SSRIs or tricyclic antidepressants. The client asks the nurse, "I heard about
MAOIs (monoamine oxidase inhibitors). Why can't they be added to what I am on now?
Wouldn't adding one help?" Which is the appropriate nursing response? -
Answer✅
"Combined use can lead to a life-threatening condition called hypertensive crisis."
Quiz_________________?
A client who is very dirty and has an offensive odor refused to take a shower when he was
admitted to the psychiatric inpatient unit of the hospital. He yelled, "No, no, no bath!" when
two staff members carried him into the shower and made him wash himself thoroughly
before allowing him to leave the shower area. Which of these statements is correct
regarding this patient's rights? -
Answer✅
This was a violation of the patients rights because the patient was restrained by force.
Quiz_________________?
A client with schizophrenia has recently begun a new medication, clozapine (Clozaril).
Which signs and symptoms of a potentially fatal side effect with the nurse teach the client
about? -
Answer✅
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