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A nurse performed these actions while caring for patients in an inpatient psychiatric setting. Which action violated patients' rights? A. Prohibited a patient from using the telephone B. In patient's presence, opened a package mailed to patient C. Remained within arm's length of patient with homicidal ideation D. Permitted a patient with psychosis to refuse oral psychotropic medication. correct answersA. Prohibited a patient from using telephone A psychiatric nurse discus...

What are the 3 topic areas of healthy people 2020 that are specific to infectious diseases? correct answersImmunization and Infectious Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases HIV Who determines which diseases will be reported? State, Government, CDC? correct answersState Where is reporting usually done? Federal, local, regional, directly to the CDC? correct answersLocal or regional health departments After reporting to the local and regional health departments, where do you re...

A charge nurse is discussing mental status examination with a newly licensed nurse. Which of the following statements made by the newly licensed nurse indicates and understanding of the teaching? (Select all that apply). A. "To assess cognitive ability, I should ask the client to count backwards by seven." B. "To assess affect, I should observe the client's facial expression." C. "To assess language ability, I should instruct the client to write a sentence." D. "To a...

1. In which scenario is it most urgent for the nurse to act as a patient advocate? a. An adult cries and experiences anxiety after a near-miss automobile accident on the way to work. b. A homeless adult diagnosed with schizophrenia lives in a community expecting a category 5 hurricane. c. A 14-year-old girl's grades decline because she consistently focuses on her appearance and social networking. d. The parents allow the prescription to lapse for 1 day for their 8-year-old child's medi...

6 indicators that are a reflection of mental health: correct answersPositive attitude toward self Growth, development, ability to achieve self-actualization Integration Autonomy Perception of reality Environmental mastery Mental illness: correct answersIndividuals with severe and persistent mental illness Characterized by complex symptoms that reflect a biological phenomenon causing marked changes in a person's ability to make choices based on consequences, to socialize, to acce...

Burden of disease correct answersthe impact of a health problem in an area measured by financial cost, mortality, morbidity, or other indicators Deinstitutionalization correct answersplans by governments to decrease the use of psychiatric hospitals and replace them with community-based treatment Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY) correct answersA combined measure of disability and premature mortality. Calculated by adding years of life lived with disability and years of life lost (from ...

1) Co-occurring diagnoses 2) Differential diagnosis correct answers- Formerly known as dual diagnosis - The appearance of one mental disorder (MD)is associated with the appearance of a second or third MD - Most commonly associated with individuals in treatment for addictions who present with other mental disorders - Examples include Substance Abuse with Depression; ADD and Conduct Disorder 2) Which is which? Is it exclusively X, exclusively Y, or maybe both? DSM-5 stands for correct ...

A nurse performed these actions while caring for patients in an inpatient psychiatric setting. Which action violated patients' rights? A. Prohibited a patient from using the telephone B. In patient's presence, opened a package mailed to patient C. Remained within arm's length of patient with homicidal ideation D. Permitted a patient with psychosis to refuse oral psychotropic medication. correct answersA. Prohibited a patient from using telephone A psychiatric nurse discus...

When a delirious client insists that a vacuum hose is a large, poisonous snake, the nurse recognizes that this client is experiencing what characteristic symptom? correct answersIllusions A client diagnosed with delirium strikes out at a staff member. The nurse can most correctly hypothesize that this behavior is related to which characteristic symptom of delirium? correct answersFear Which type of dementia has a clear genetic link? correct answersAlzheimer's disease A nursing diagno...

Religion & spirituality are "among the most important factors that structure human _______, ________, ________ & ______ ______ correct answersexperience beliefs values behavior illness patters Religion is defined as ... ? correct answersa formal, system of beliefs, usually centering around some conception of God and expressing the views of a particular religious community Spirituality is defined as ...? correct answersa belief system focusing on intangible elements that impact vital...

Somatoform disorders correct answersdisorders characterized by physical symptoms for which no known physical cause exists most common in women, poor educated, non-whites Doctor shopping is common Somatoform symptoms correct answersTMJ, Teeth Grinding @ night, hypertension, Tension H/A Somatoform interventions correct answersGOAL -> to get feelings out, so the symptoms aren't there anymore! - offer explanations during testing to reduce anxiety -assess if pt can meet basic h...

If you have good mental health a) your mind is alert b) you never make a mistake c) your body functions well d) your feelings are appropriate to events correct answersa) your mind is alert CHAPTER 1 Which is part of your social environment? a) air quality b) noise levels c) video games d) family members correct answersd) family members CHAPTER 1 An often-repeated behavior that becomes almost automatic is a/an a) action plan b) value c) habit d) goal correct answersc) habit ...

What is the (average) life expectancy in the US? correct answers78 The complex and fluid interaction between and individual and risk/protective factors in one or more domains has been described as correct answersWeb of influence of causality Which of the following is not an example of an essential public health service correct answerscreating health objectives The leading cause of deaths in the US in 2007 were all of the following except correct answerstuberculosis Which of the follo...

Which nursing response demonstrates accurate information that should be discussed with the female patient diagnosed with bipolar and her support system? Select all that apply. a. "Remember that alcohol and caffeine can trigger a relapse of your symptoms." b. "Due to the risk of a manic episode, antidepressant therapy is never used with bipolar disorder. c. "It's critical to let your healthcare provider know immediately if you aren't sleeping well." d. "Is your famil...

the medical model assumed that diseases are universal and do not vary across time or place (T/F) correct answerstrue sociologists under the social constructionist tradition analyze illness, not disease (T/F) correct answersfalse illness refers to the social meaning of a condition, rather than a biological concept of disease, illness includes the experience of disease & society's reaction (T/F) correct answerstrue the process by which human problems become defined as medical ones is c...

Prevalence of anxiety disorders in females vs. males correct answers2:1 ratio Systematic desensitization correct answersSystematically exposing someone to increasingly frightening triggers, to reduce their emotional power. Panic attack correct answersPeriod of intense anxiety, characterized by bodily symptoms (head pounding, chest tightness, shaking hands, lightheadedness, rerealization, or parathesia - numbness or tingling,, depersonalization) Derealization and Depersonalization correc...

Violence and Abuse: - There are consequences of lack of intervention and treatment in child abuse- ACES - these consequences are ____ rates of asthma, SUD, anxiety, depression, dissociative disorders, conduct disorders, personality disorders, ADHD, learning disabilities, PTSD, adult cancer and cardiovascular disease correct answershigher Violence and Abuse: Child Abuse - _____ are the primary perpetrators - most deaths infants to age 4 years - occurs in all socioeconomic groups, all r...

A psychiatric-mental health nurse is conducting a presentation for a community group about mental health disorders. The nurse determines that the presentation was successful when the group identifies which characteristics as reflecting a mental health disorder? Select all that apply. A. The person experiences some type of distress related to change in thinking. B. The person's mood is unusual C. The person's altered mood leads to impaired functioning D. The person can deal with incre...

We live in a time in which "mental health" is a concept that is ___ ____ ___________. correct answersfar less stigmatized Defining mental illness correct answersBrain disorder that disrupts a person's thinking, feeling, and ability to interact with others. Perhaps more than any other construct in medical sociology, mental illness is incredibly difficult to ______________. correct answersoperationalize Patterns in mental health stratification correct answersMuch more prevalent i...

Sondra, who lives in Maine, hears on the evening news that 25 people were killed in a tornado in south Texas. Sondra experiences no anxiety upon hearing of this stressful situation. What is the most likely reason that Sondra experiences no anxiety? a. She is selfish and does not care what happens to other people. b. She appraises the event as irrelevant to her own situation. c. She assesses that she has the skills to cope with the stressful situation. d. She uses suppression as her primary d...