When assessing a new prison inmate the correctional nurse conducts a particularly thorough mental illness screening because:
a. the rate of serious mental illness among inmates is three to four times that of the general U.S. population.
b. this may be the only opportunity this individual has ever had for a mental health assessment to be conducted.
c. the prison system is prepared to deal with underlying mental health disorders that may have previously gone untreated.
d. medication dosages being used to treat existing mental health disorders may need to be reevaluated to address the stressors of incarceration.
A
The rate of serious mental illness in the incarcerated population is about three to four times that of the general U.S. population.
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