mental health disorders and addictions EAQ
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A nurse decides to use the CAGE screening questionnaire with a
... [Show More] client admitted for substance
abuse. What is the client abusing?
Barbiturates
Hallucinogens
Multiple drugs
A nurse is caring for a hyperactive, manic client who exhibits flight of ideas and is not eating.
What may be the reason why the client is not eating?
Feeling undeserving of the food
Too busy to take the time to eat
Wishes to avoid others in the dining room
Believes that there is no need for food at this time
What childhood problem has legal as well as emotional aspects and cannot be ignored?
School phobia
Fear of animals
Fear of monsters
Sleep disturbances
A client is admitted to the psychiatric hospital after many self-inflicted nonlethal injuries over the
preceding month. Of which level of suicidal behavior is the client's behavior reflective?
Threats
Ideation
Gestures
Attempts
A nurse has been assigned to care for a client with the diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive
disorder (OCD). Before providing care for this client, what should the nurse remember about
clients with OCD?
Are unaware that the ritual serves no purpose
Can alter the ritual depending on the situation
Should be prevented from performing the ritual
Do not want to repeat the ritual but feel compelled to do so
During an interview of a client with a diagnosis of bipolar I disorder, manic episode, what does
the nurse expect the client to demonstrate?
Flight of ideas
Ritualistic behaviors
Associative looseness
Alcohol
Auditory hallucinations
The nurse would recognize which behavior as being characteristic of the panic phase of crisis
behavior?
Sobbing for no apparent reason
Reporting great difficulties falling asleep
Startling easily to loud noises and being touched
For which clinical indication should a nurse observe a child in whom autism is suspected?
Lack of eye contact
Crying for attention
Catatonia-like rigidity
Engaging in parallel play
A client with paralysis of the legs is found to have somatoform disorder, conversion type. What
must the nurse consider when formulating a plan of care for this client?
The illness is very real to the client and requires appropriate nursing care.
Although the client believes that there is an illness, there is no cause for concern.
There is no physiological basis for the illness; therefore only emotional care is
needed.
Nursing intervention is needed even though the nurse understands that the client is
not ill.
The nurse is assigned to work with a 20-year-old client on an inpatient unit. In assessing the
woman, the nurse notes that she is mute, does not show any type of movement, is unre [Show Less]