1. What is the most essential task for a nurse prior to forming a therapeutic relationship
with a client?
1. Clarify personal attitudes, values, and beliefs.
2. Obtain thorough assessment data.
3. Determine the client’s length of stay.
4. Establish personal goals for the interaction.
ANS: 1
Chapter: Chapter 7, Relationship Development
Objective: Discuss the importance of self-awareness in the nurse-client relationship.
Page: 110
Heading: Role of the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse > Gaining Self-Awareness
Integrated Processes: Nursing Process: Implementation
Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity
Cognitive Level: Comprehension [Understanding]
Concept: Patient-Centered Care
Difficulty: Easy
Feedback
1. This is correct. The most essential task for a nurse to accomabpirlbi.scohmp/treisot r to
forming a
therapeutic relationship with a client is to clarify personal attitudes, values, and
beliefs. Understanding one’s own attitudes, values, and beliefs is called self-
2. awareness.
This is incorrect. The thorough assessment would occur after the nurse is able to
clarify personal attitudes, etc.
3. This is incorrect. This would not be a component of the
4. thearbisairincorrect.
This pb.ecoumti/This
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would occur after the nurse is able to self-reflect as
preparation for the relationship to begin.
CON: Patient-Centered Care
2. A hungry, homeless client, diagnosed with schizophrenia, refuses to participate in an
admission interview. The nurse postpones the admission interview, verbally assures
safety, and provides the client with a warm meal. Which of the following does the
nurse’s action demonstrate?
1. Sympathy
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