The correctional nurse was completing an admission physical for a newly incarcerated prisoner. The nurse realized the prisoner was talking to someone other than the nurse. Which of the following does the nurse need to remember?
a. Cell phones, including those with ear phones, are commonplace among everyone.
b. It is common for persons to talk to themselves or think out loud.
c. Prisons have become the residence for a very large number of persons who have mental illnesses.
d. Prisoners get very lonely and often talk to mirrors or inanimate objects.
ANS: C
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, deinstitutionalization moved people with mental illness out of state hospitals into communities that were often ill-prepared to care for them. As a result, many people with a mental illness reside in nursing homes, residential homes, prisons, or jails. People with mental illness are often jailed for crimes committed in response to the symptoms of mental illness. Approximately 34% of state inmates, 24% of federal inmates, and 17% of jail inmates received treatment for mental health problems. Thus, it is highly likely that this prisoner has a mental illness. It is less likely that the prisoner is using a cell phone or purposefully talking to himself
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