CA PT Board Exam Review - Psychiatric Nursing questions with answers

CA PT Board Exam Review -
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Psychiatric Nursing questions with |\ |\ |\ |\




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The Psychiatric Technician can best assist an individual of a
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different culture adjust to life in a new community by:
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a. Encouraging the detachment from family and friends.
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b. Becoming familiar with the client's communication patterns.
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c. Describing the new customs in the community.
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d. Immersing the individual in the dominant culture. - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔b. Becoming familiar with the client's
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communication patterns. |\




A fifteen year old patient in a psychiatric facility says, "I going to
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be a Psych Tech." This is an example of:
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a. identification
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b. regression
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c. reaction formation
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d. displacement - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a. identification
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In order to determine the client's perception of the reason for
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admission to the psychiatric facility, it will be most appropriate
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for the psychiatric technician to say:
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,a. "Did the police bring you here?"
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b. "Tell me about your life."
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c. "Why did you come here?"
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d. "I guess you are pretty confused about all this. - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔c. "Why did you come here?" |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




In establishing a therapeutic relationship with a client, it is
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imperative that the Psychiatric Technician demonstrate the ability
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to:
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a. see the client's world from client's perspective.
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b. recognize that the client is bound to the past.
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c. focus on content rather than feelings.
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d. tell the client that all problems have solutions. - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔a. see the client's world from client's perspective.
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The client awakens one day and is uncommunicative. There is no
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response to staff or peers. The most appropriate approach is to:
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a. insist that the client participate in activities.
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b. recognize that the behavior is attention seeking and ignore it.
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c. sit with the client periodically throughout the shift.
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d. encourage verbal responses by telling the patient to ventilate.
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- CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔c. sit with the client periodically
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throughout the shift. |\ |\

,Appropriate intervention strategies when working with families
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include:


a. conveying warmth and acceptance of all members.
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b. developing an alliance with the identified patient.
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c. advising the family in ways to identify problems and solutions.
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d. assisting the family in disengaging as a group. - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔a. conveying warmth and acceptance of all
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members.


Which of the following is characteristic of the initial phase of
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group development when developing a functioning group?
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a. Most members are comfortable and at ease in the group.
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b. Many members will compete for the group leadership role.
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c. Feelings of intimacy and closeness are readily apparent.
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d. Testing behaviors are not unusual. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔d.
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Testing behaviors are not unusual.
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The client is observed talking to an imaginary person. The client
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is most likely responding to:
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a. environmental stimuli.
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b. delusional material.
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c. hallucinations.
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, d. ideas of reference. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔c. hallucinations.
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Which of the following will be most useful in assisting the client
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cope with a stressful situation?
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a. Practicing active listening.
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b. Being skillful in the assessment process.
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c. Advising the client of effective problem solving techniques.
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d. Telling the client that everything will be all right. - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔a. Practicing active listening. |\ |\ |\ |\




Which of the following is most important when caring for the
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client in the first phase of alcohol withdrawal?
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a. correction of vitamin deficiencies.
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b. assist the client in recognition of alcoholism as a problem.
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c. provide the care and administer medications which minimize
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the effects of delirium tremens.
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d. keep the client in a quiet, dark room and discourage contact
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with other clients. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔c. provide the care
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and administer medications which minimize the effects of
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delirium tremens. |\




The doctor has ordered the drug naloxone (narcan) to be given
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stat. The Psychiatric Technician knows that this preparation will
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act to:|\