During the shift report, a nurse describes a client as crazy. Which approach by the nurse would be best?
Suggest that staff use the term mentally
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The psychiatric mental health nursing student is preparing to attend a meeting of the psychiatric mental health care team to discuss possible updates to clients diagnoses. In preparing for this meeting, the nursing student should consult which of the following references?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The nurse is sharing client assessment data with the multidisciplinary health care team. Which comment by the nurse is irrelevant and indicates a misunderstanding of the concept of a mental disorder?
The client has some very inappropriate religious ideas and spiritual beliefs.
The nursing assistant verbalizes to the psychiatric nurse that normal people dont have mental disorders. Which approach by the nurse would be best?
Instruct the nursing assistant that anyone can have a mental health problem.
The nurse is teaching the client regarding the concept of mental disorders. In instructing the client, what areas should be covered in the explanation of what impacts the determination of a mental disorder?
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
Social conditions
Biochemistry
Brain structure
Culture
The nurse is teaching staff at a community mental health clinic about what constitutes a mental disorder. Which comment by staff indicates to the nurse the need for further teaching?
Grieving after a loss may signal a mental disorder.
The nurse is told that the client most likely has the diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The nurse is not sure of the assessment data and behaviors that accompany this disorder. Which action would be most appropriate for the nurse to take?
Consult the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders for diagnostic criteria.
During an admission assessment on an adult unit, the nurse is thinking that the clients beliefs and actions regarding commonly accepted health practices are bizarre. To help establish the presence of a mental disorder, the nurse should first collect information about the clients:
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
Occupational history.
Psychiatric history.
Culture.
The nurse is caring for a client who was recently admitted to the unit. During the nursing assessment of the client, the nurse finds the clients beliefs and actions related to many health practices to stray from the norm. Which action would be most appropriate for the nurse to take at this time?
Inquire as to the culture with which the client identifies.
The new nurse is working with a preceptor on a medical-surgical unit. The nurse has just assessed a client and states to the preceptor, This client has many odd notions regarding several common health practices. He seems like a deviant to me. In planning a response, the preceptor is guided by:
The knowledge that beliefs and behaviors are judged by cultural and social considerations.
A nurse educator is teaching a group of students the definition of a mentally healthy individual. The nurse educator knows that an individual is considered mentally healthy when which of the following concepts give evidence to psychological, emotional, and social health?
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