ATI MENTAL HEALTH PROCTORED EXAM II | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ & PASSED
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A nurse is planning overall strategies to address problems for a client who
has a borderline personality disorder. Which of the following strategies is the
priority for the nurse to incorporate into the plan of care?
a. discuss the appropriate use of assertive behavior with the client
b. encour...
ATI MENTAL HEALTH PROCTORED
EXAM II | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
(VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED
A+ & PASSED
A nurse is planning overall strategies to address problems for a client who
has a borderline personality disorder. Which of the following strategies is the
priority for the nurse to incorporate into the plan of care?
a. discuss the appropriate use of assertive behavior with the client
b. encourage the client to attend weekly support group meetings
c. assist the client to maintain awareness of her thoughts and feelings
d. implement measures to prevent intentional self-inflicted injury
Correct Ans: d. implement measures to prevent intentional self-inflicted injury
A nurse is admitting a client who has a generalized anxiety disorder. Which of the
following actions should the nurse plan to take first?
,a. Provide the client with a quiet environment
b. Determine how the client handles stress.
c. Teach the client to use guided imagery.
d. Ask the client to identify her strengths
Correct Ans: a. Provide the client with a quiet environment
A nurse is conducting an admission interview with a client who is experiencing mania.
Which of the following should the nurse report to the provider?
a. States that he hasn't bathed in 2 days
b. Reports eating twice in the past two weeks.
c. Makes inappropriate sexual comments.
d. Speaks in rhyming sentences.
Correct Ans: b. Reports eating twice in the past two weeks.
A nurse is planning care for a client who has obsessive-compulsive disorder. Which of
the following recommendation should the nurse include in the client's plan of care?
a. Validation therapy
b. Thought stopping
c. Operant conditioning
d. Reality orientation therapy
,Correct Ans: b. Thought stopping
A nurse is caring for a client who has bipolar disorder and is experiencing a manic
episode. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?
a. Encourage the client to join group activities
b. Dim the lights in the client's room
c. Provide detailed explanations to the client
d. Administer methylphenidate
Correct Ans: b. Dim the lights in the client's room
A nurse is leading a crisis intervention group for adolescents who witnessed the suicide
of a classmate. Which of the following actions should the nurse take first?
a. Initiate referrals
b. Review community resources
c. Identify prior coping skills
d. Discuss the importance of confidentiality
Correct Ans: c. Identify prior coping skills
A nurse overhears a client saying"I am a spy, a spy for the FBI .I am an I,an eye for an
eye in the sky. Sky is up high." The nurse should document the client's statement as
which of the following speech alterations?
, a. Echolalia
b. Word salad
c. Neologism
d. Clang association
Correct Ans: d. Clang association
An older adult client is brought to the mental health clinic by her daughter. The daughter
reports that her mother is not eating and seems uninterested in routine activities. The
daughter states "Im so worried that my mother is depressed" which of the following
responses should the nurse make?
a. Everyone gets depressed from time to time.
b. You shouldn't worry about this because the depressive disorder is easily treated.
c. Older adults are usually diagnosed with the depressive disorder as they age.
d. Tell me the reasons you think your mother is depressed.
Correct Ans: d. Tell me the reasons you think your mother is depressed.
A nurse is planning care for an adolescent who has autism spectrum disorder. Which of
the following outcomes should the nurse include in the plan care?
a. Meets own needs without manipulating others.
b. Initiates social interactions with caregivers.
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