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NRS 211 exam 1The nurse is integrating Peplau's model when providing care to a client with a mental
illness. Which will the nurse distinguish as a key component?
a. Suffering
b. Anxiety
c. Self-care
d. Nonverbal behaviors - answer anxiety
1. A nurse on a mental health unit is caring for a group of clients. Which action by the
nurse is an example of the ethical principle of justice?
a. Allowing a Client to choose which unit activities to attend
b. Spending adequate time with verbally abusive client
c. Attempting alternative strategies, rather than restrains for a client who is combative
d. Providing a client with accurate information about their prognosis - answerb.
Spending adequate time with verbally abusive client
1. A client weighs 180lb and has a prescription for 0.5mL of medication per kilogram of
body weight. How many mLs of medication will the client receive? - answer41
1. A nurse is reviewing journal articles about major depression. One of the articles
describes the proportion of the cases in the population when compared with the total
population. The nurse intreprets this as which epidemiologic term?
a. Rate
b. Prevalence
c. Point Prevalence
d. Incidence - answera. Rate
1. A client's psychiatrist inform informs the client that she needs to participate in a three-
month outpatient aftercare program after her discharge. Which would protect the client's
right to request a second opinion before agreeing to this suggestion?
a. Self-determinism
b. Least restrictive environment
c. Confidentiality
d. Mandate to inform - answera. Self-determinism
1. Today in the 21st century, what is a common belief about most severe forms of
mental illness?
a. Severe forms of mental illness are treatment resistant
b. Severe forms of mental illness have a neurobiologic basis
c. Severe forms of mental illness require long-term hospitalization
, d. Severe forms of mental illness stem from poor parenting - answerb. Severe forms of
mental illness have a neurobiologic basis
1. The nurse wants to intervene in a way that allows the client to think about solutions
without the nurse giving advice. Choose which communication would achieve the
planned intervention?
a. "Are you sure that your parents will never accept your decision?"
b. "It sounds like you're feeling helpless about this problem"
c. "Tell me more about your difficulties at the job"
d. "What do you think you should do about this problem? - answerd. "What do you think
you should do about this problem?
1. The nurse is teaching a group of community members about health, wellness, and
living with mental illness. Which statement(s) made by a community member requires
follow up by the nurse? Select all that apply.
a. "One can improve overall wellness by improving physical health, but mental health is
more difficult to improve"
b. "Being well means you do not have disease, either physical or mental"
c. "Overall health cannot exist if you also have mental illness"
d. "One cannot have overall health without also being mentally healthy"
e. "Overall wellness includes aspects of mental, emotional and physical well-being" -
answera. "One can improve overall wellness by improving physical health, but mental
health is more difficult to improve"
b. "Being well means you do not have disease, either physical or mental"
c. "Overall health cannot exist if you also have mental illness"
1. The nurse needs to teach a client about discharge medications, but the client is
exhibiting signs of moderate anxiety about the upcoming discharge. Based on Peplau's
theory regarding anxiety, when would the nurse expect to implement the education
plan?
a. When the client's anxiety escalates to the severe level
b. When the client is completely free of anxiety
c. When the client's anxiety decreases to a mild level
d. When the client's anxiety stabilizes at its current level - answerc. When the client's
anxiety decreases to a mild level
1. The prescriber orders an IV of D51/2 NS to run at 100 ml/hr for 5 hours. The tubing
has a drip factor of 15 gtts/ml. At what rate (gtts/minute) will the nurse regulate the IV to
deliver the prescribed solution?
25 - answer
1. Which assessment is most important for the nurse when evaluating signs and
symptoms of mental illness?
a. The intensity of an emotional reaction
b. The inability to face problems within one's life
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