ATI mental health final exam with correct
answers
depressed client tells "I am too tired and depressed to attend group therapy today" - respond?
✔️✔️"Attending group therapy, even if you are tired, may help your depression"
appropriate short term goal for a client exhibiting manic behavior? ✔️✔️painting alone for 15
minutes
order to admin donepezil daily - should be administered? ✔️✔️at bedtime
expect to observe in a client exhibiting impulsive behavior? ✔️✔️low tolerance for frustration
admits to eating disorder program - now 85 pounds - early manifestation of anorexia?
✔️✔️amenorrhea
initially, should expect a client to react to a dx of cancer with? ✔️✔️denial
client is transferred to a psych from the ED - treated for self-inflicted injuries - highest priority?
✔️✔️promoting and maintaining client safety
, admitting a client to outpatient for a second series of ECT - give immediate consideration w
which statement? ✔️✔️"I only ate a light breakfast this morning"
caring for elderly in inpatient - understand which w regard to client's antidepressant?
✔️✔️elderly clients require lower doses of antidepressants than younger clients
nurse outpatient mental health clinic - client dx w antisocial - most appropriate nursing
intervention? ✔️✔️set limits on the inappropriate behavior
caring for a client w agoraphobia - most effective technique? ✔️✔️gradual desensitization by
controlled exposure to the situation of client fears
hx of extremely elevated, irritable mood for a week - nurse notes grandiosity, insomnia, flight of
ideas, and psychomotor agitation - priority short term goal? ✔️✔️adequate nutrition and rest
patterns
caring for client who has been taking lithium for last 6 months - no longer responding well - after
dc lithium, provider prescribes valproic acid - instructions? ✔️✔️liver fxn and hematology
levels must be monitored regularly
answers
depressed client tells "I am too tired and depressed to attend group therapy today" - respond?
✔️✔️"Attending group therapy, even if you are tired, may help your depression"
appropriate short term goal for a client exhibiting manic behavior? ✔️✔️painting alone for 15
minutes
order to admin donepezil daily - should be administered? ✔️✔️at bedtime
expect to observe in a client exhibiting impulsive behavior? ✔️✔️low tolerance for frustration
admits to eating disorder program - now 85 pounds - early manifestation of anorexia?
✔️✔️amenorrhea
initially, should expect a client to react to a dx of cancer with? ✔️✔️denial
client is transferred to a psych from the ED - treated for self-inflicted injuries - highest priority?
✔️✔️promoting and maintaining client safety
, admitting a client to outpatient for a second series of ECT - give immediate consideration w
which statement? ✔️✔️"I only ate a light breakfast this morning"
caring for elderly in inpatient - understand which w regard to client's antidepressant?
✔️✔️elderly clients require lower doses of antidepressants than younger clients
nurse outpatient mental health clinic - client dx w antisocial - most appropriate nursing
intervention? ✔️✔️set limits on the inappropriate behavior
caring for a client w agoraphobia - most effective technique? ✔️✔️gradual desensitization by
controlled exposure to the situation of client fears
hx of extremely elevated, irritable mood for a week - nurse notes grandiosity, insomnia, flight of
ideas, and psychomotor agitation - priority short term goal? ✔️✔️adequate nutrition and rest
patterns
caring for client who has been taking lithium for last 6 months - no longer responding well - after
dc lithium, provider prescribes valproic acid - instructions? ✔️✔️liver fxn and hematology
levels must be monitored regularly
