PSYCH HESI PREP EXAM AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2024.

A nurse is explaining a fire drill routine to a group of clients. A client becomes disruptive and continually interrupts the group. What is the nurse's best response? - Answer When you interrupt, I cannot explain what to do to the group. A client comes in after being in a car accident and is experiencing alcohol withdrawal, magnesium level of 1.1, cardiac dysrhythmias. What would you give first? - Answer Magnesium When performing a Mental Status Exam (MSE) on a client which assessment intervention would best assist the nurse? - Answer Ask the client to interpret the proverb a stitch in time saves nine. A women was just told of her husbands diagnosis of terminal cancer. What would the nurse offer for the wife? - Answer How would you like to be involved with your husbands care? A nurse is to remove staples form an abdominal incision, the client is very anxious. What is the most important intervention? - Answer Attempt to distract the client with general conversation A man diagnosed with bipolar disorder states, "I don't understand. I believe in God and have not done anything to deserve this." What is the nurses best response? - Answer You did not do anything wrong. You have a chemical imbalance in your brain. A client becomes upset when the nurse he requests is not assigned to him. what is the nurses best response? - Answer Advise the client that nursing assignments are not based on client requests. A client needs to wash her hands for 2 hours before able to go on with her morning. She doesnt want to sit on the chairs in the dayroom for fear of getting dirty. What is this mechanism? - Answer Compulsion A client in group is talking about her prostitution. The nurse asks her if she was abused by her parents. She states, my mother ran my father out when I was young. What defense mechanism was used? - Answer Repression