As a mental health nurse practitioner, you are treating a client with a somatoform disorder and a comorbidity of depression. You know that this patient will most likely benefit from what?
A) Reassurance that there is no serious medical reason for the symptoms
B) Psychotherapy
C) An antidepressant
D) An antianxiety agent
C
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According to Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, a child between 6 and 12 years old needs to accomplish which of the following tasks?
a. to develop a sense of trust in others b. to develop necessary social skills c. to integrate childhood into a personal identity d. to learn self-control
A client on the psychiatric unit tells the nurse that someone has put poison in the food and she wants the nurse to warn everyone not to eat today
When the lunch trays arrive, the client becomes very agitated and starts walking around trying to knock the food out of other clients' hands. The client is taken to her room where she accuses the nurse and staff of being involved in a plot to kill her. She does accept an IM injection that calms her and she goes to sleep. Which nursing diagnosis did the nurse document? A) Alterations in thought (delusions) related to concern for others and powerlessness B) Alterations in nutrition (impaired) related to belief that the food is poisoned (persecution) C) Potential for harm (self and others) related to fear of being poisoned; (persecution) D) Altered perceptions related to misinterpretation of the environment, cognitive impairment
Which of the following is an instrument used to examine the ears?
A. Percussion hammer B. Stethoscope C. Otoscope D. Ophthalmoscope
Nurses have an obligation to be whistle-blowers if what is occurring?
A) Management does not do what they want them to. B) The organization does not seem to care about its employees. C) Serious and considerable harm to the public is involved. D) They lack the time to go up the chain of command in an organization.