PSYCHIATRIC NURSING FOR MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE QUESTIONS Q&A 2023
PSYCHIATRIC NURSING FOR MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE QUESTIONS Q&A 2023
PSYCHIATRIC NURSING FOR MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE QUESTIONS Q&A 2023
PSYCHIATRIC NURSING Part 2 shower
c. Explaining the importance of
1. Nurse Tony should first discuss hygiene to the client
terminating the nurse- client relationship d. Stating to the client that it’s time for
with a client during the: him to take
a. Termination phase when discharge a shower
plans are being made. 4. When teaching Mario with a typical
b. Working phase when the client depression about foods to avoid while
shows some progress. taking phenelzine(Nardil), which of the
c. Orientation phase when a following would the nurse in charge
contract is established. include?
d. Working phase when the client brings a. Roasted chicken
it up. b. Fresh fish
2. Malou is diagnosed with major depression c. Salami
spends majority of the day lying in bed d. Hamburger
with the sheet pulled over his head. 5. When assessing a female client who is
Which of the following approaches by the receiving tricyclic antidepressant therapy,
nurse would be the most therapeutic? which of the following would
a. Question the client until he responds alert the nurse to the possibility that
b. Initiate contact with the client the client is experiencing
frequently anticholinergic effects?
c. Sit outside the clients room a. Urine retention and blurred vision
d. Wait for the client to begin the b. Respiratory depression and convulsion
conversation c. Delirium and Sedation
3. Joe who is very depressed exhibits d. Tremors and cardiac arrhythmias
psychomotor retardation, a flat affect 6. For a male client with dysthymic disorder,
and apathy. The nurse in charge which of the following approaches would
observes Joe to be in need of grooming the nurse expect to implement?
and hygiene. Which of the following a. ECT
nursing actions would be most b. Psychotherapeutic approach
appropriate?
a. Waiting until the client’s family can
participate in the client’s care
b. Asking the client if he is ready to take
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, c. Psychoanalysis a. “I’m of no use to anyone anymore.”
d. Antidepressant therapy b. “I know my kids don’t need me
7. Danny who is diagnosed with bipolar anymore since they’re grown.”
disorder and acute mania, states the c. “I couldn’t kill myself because I don’t
nurse, “Where is my daughter? I love want to go to hell.”
Louis. Rain, rain go away. Dogs eat d. “I don’t think about killing myself as
dirt.” The nurse interprets these much as I used to.”
statements as indicating which of the 11. Which of the following activities would
following? Nurse Trish recommend to the client
a. Echolalia who becomes very anxious when
b. Neologism thoughts of suicide occur?
c. Clang associations a. Using exercise bicycle
d. Flight of ideas b. Meditating
8. Terry with mania is skipping up and c. Watching TV
down the hallway practically running d. Reading comics
into other clients. Which of the 12. When developing the plan of care for a
following activities would the nurse in client receiving haloperidol, which of the
charge expect to include in Terry’s plan following medications would nurse
of care? Monet anticipate administering if the
a. Watching TV client developed extra pyramidal side
b. Cleaning dayroom tables effects?
c. Leading group activity a. Olanzapine (Zyprexa)
d. Reading a book b. Paroxetine (Paxil)
9. When assessing a male client for suicidal c. Benztropine mesylate (Cogentin)
risk, which of the following methods of d. Lorazepam (Ativan)
suicide would the nurse identify as most
lethal?
a. Wrist cutting
b. Head banging
c. Use of gun
d. Aspirin overdose
10. Jun has been hospitalized for major
depression and suicidal ideation. Which
of the following statements indicates to
the nurse that the client is improving?
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,13. Jon a suspicious client states that “I know b. Feeling more guilty about the client’s
you nurses are spraying my food with illness
poison as you take it out of the cart.” c. Recognizing the client’s weakness
Which of the following would be the d. Managing their financial concern and
best response of the nurse? problems
a. Giving the client canned 16. When planning care for Dory with
supplements until the delusion subsides schizotypal personality disorder, which
b. Asking what kind of poison the client of the following would help the client
suspects is being used become involved with others?
c. Serving foods that come in sealed a. Attending an activity with the nurse
packages b. Leading a sing a long in the afternoon
d. Allowing the client to be the first c. Participating solely in group activities
to open the cart and get a tray d. Being involved with primarily
14. A client is suffering from catatonic one to one activities
behaviors. Which of the following would 17. Which statement about an
the nurse use to determine that the individual with a personality
medication administered PRN have disorder is true?
been most effective? a. Psychotic behavior is common
a. The client responds to verbal during acute episodes
directions to eat b. Prognosis for recovery is good with
b. The client initiates simple therapeutic intervention
activities without direction c. The individual typically remains in the
c. The client walks with the nurse to her mainstream of society, although he has
room problems in social and occupational roles
d. The client is able to move all d. The individual usually seeks
extremities occasionally treatment willingly for symptoms that are
15. Nurse Hazel invites new client’s parents personally distressful.
to attend the psycho educational 18. Nurse John is talking with a client who
program for families of the chronically has been diagnosed with antisocial
mentally ill. The program would be most personality about how to
likely to help the family with which of the
following issues?
a. Developing a support network
with other families
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, socialize during activities without about the client’s physiologic response
being seductive. Nurse John would and the effectiveness of the
focus the discussion on which of the medication prescribed specifically for
following areas? alcohol withdrawal?
a. Discussing his relationship with his a. Sleeping pattern
mother b. Mental alertness
b. Asking him to explain reasons for c. Nutritional status
his seductive behavior d. Vital signs
c. Suggesting to apologize to 22. After administering naloxone (Narcan),
others for his behavior an opioid antagonist, Nurse Ronald
d. Explaining the negative should monitor the female client
reactions of others toward his carefully for which of the following?
behavior a. Respiratory depression
19. Tina with a histrionic personality b. Epilepsy
disorder is melodramatic and responds c. Kidney failure
to others and situations in an d. Cerebral edema
exaggerated manner. Nurse Trish would 23. Which of the following would nurse Ronald
recommend which of the following use as
activities for Tina? the best measure to determine a client’s
a. Baking class progress in
b. Role playing rehabilitation?
c. Scrap book making a. The way he gets along with his parents
d. Music group b. The number of drug-free days he has
20. Joy has entered the chemical c. The kinds of friends he makes
dependency unit for treatment of d. The amount of responsibility his job
alcohol dependency. Which of the entails
following client’s possession will the 24. A female client is brought by
nurse most likely place in a locked ambulance to the hospital emergency
area? room after taking an overdose
a. Toothpaste
b. Shampoo
c. Antiseptic mouthwash
d. Moisturizer
21. Which of the following assessment
would provide the best information
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