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Varcarolis: Essen-tials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing ✔✔
Test Bank ✔✔
Chapter 2: Mental Health and Mental Ill-ness ✔✔
✔✔MULTIPLE CHOICE
✔✔1. A nurse explains multiaxial diagnoses to a psychiatric technician. Which information is
accurate?
a. ✔✔It is a template for treatment planning.
b. ✔✔Nursing and medical diagnoses are included.
c. ✔✔Assessments of several aspects of functioning are included.
d. ✔✔It incorporates the framework of a specific biopsychosocial theory.
,ANS: ✔✔C
The use of five axes requires assessment beyond diagnosis of a mental disorder and includes
relevant medical conditions, psychosocial and environmental problems, and global assessment of
functioning. The DSM-IV-TR is not a template for treatment planning and does not use a specific
biopsychosocial theory. Nursing diagnoses are not included in multiaxial diagnoses. ✔✔
✔✔2. Which documentation of diagnosis would a nurse expect for a person with mental illness?
a. ✔✔I Rheumatoid arthritis
II 100 ✔✔
III Posttraumatic stress disorder ✔✔
IV Arrested for shoplifting 2 months ago ✔✔
V None ✔✔
b. ✔✔I Mental retardation
II Histrionic personality disorder ✔✔
III 75 ✔✔
IV Hypertension ✔✔
V Home destroyed by tornado last year ✔✔
, c. ✔✔I Schizophrenia, paranoid
II Death of spouse last year ✔✔
III 40 ✔✔
IV None ✔✔
V Alcohol abuse ✔✔
d. ✔✔I Generalized anxiety disorder
II Avoidant personality disorder ✔✔
III Fibromyalgia ✔✔
IV Declared bankruptcy 6 months ago ✔✔
V 60 ✔✔
ANS: ✔✔D
The option beginning with a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder places a clinical disorder
on Axis I, a personality disorder on Axis II, a medical problem on Axis III, a psychosocial
problem on Axis IV, and GAF on Axis V. The other options misplace and incorrectly order the
clinical data. ✔✔
2024/2025 updated
Questions And Answers 100% correct
Verified
Varcarolis: Essen-tials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing ✔✔
Test Bank ✔✔
Chapter 2: Mental Health and Mental Ill-ness ✔✔
✔✔MULTIPLE CHOICE
✔✔1. A nurse explains multiaxial diagnoses to a psychiatric technician. Which information is
accurate?
a. ✔✔It is a template for treatment planning.
b. ✔✔Nursing and medical diagnoses are included.
c. ✔✔Assessments of several aspects of functioning are included.
d. ✔✔It incorporates the framework of a specific biopsychosocial theory.
,ANS: ✔✔C
The use of five axes requires assessment beyond diagnosis of a mental disorder and includes
relevant medical conditions, psychosocial and environmental problems, and global assessment of
functioning. The DSM-IV-TR is not a template for treatment planning and does not use a specific
biopsychosocial theory. Nursing diagnoses are not included in multiaxial diagnoses. ✔✔
✔✔2. Which documentation of diagnosis would a nurse expect for a person with mental illness?
a. ✔✔I Rheumatoid arthritis
II 100 ✔✔
III Posttraumatic stress disorder ✔✔
IV Arrested for shoplifting 2 months ago ✔✔
V None ✔✔
b. ✔✔I Mental retardation
II Histrionic personality disorder ✔✔
III 75 ✔✔
IV Hypertension ✔✔
V Home destroyed by tornado last year ✔✔
, c. ✔✔I Schizophrenia, paranoid
II Death of spouse last year ✔✔
III 40 ✔✔
IV None ✔✔
V Alcohol abuse ✔✔
d. ✔✔I Generalized anxiety disorder
II Avoidant personality disorder ✔✔
III Fibromyalgia ✔✔
IV Declared bankruptcy 6 months ago ✔✔
V 60 ✔✔
ANS: ✔✔D
The option beginning with a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder places a clinical disorder
on Axis I, a personality disorder on Axis II, a medical problem on Axis III, a psychosocial
problem on Axis IV, and GAF on Axis V. The other options misplace and incorrectly order the
clinical data. ✔✔
