While assessing a new patient in the clinic area, the nurse administers the SAD PERSONAS. For what is the nurse most likely assessing?
A) Risk of depression
B) Risk of self-mutilation
C) Risk of violence
D) Risk of suicide
D
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When collecting data on this client, the nurse carefully questions: 1. Current diagnoses. 2. Results of recent laboratory findings. 3. Current symptoms. 4. Current medications.
In 1882, the first psychiatric training school for nurses opened. The first psychiatric nurse was:
a. Dorothea Dix. b. Linda Richards. c. Clara Barton. d. Lillian Wald.
In the United States, what belief is the hospice movement based on?
A) Meaningful living during terminal illness requires technologic interventions. B) Meaningful living during terminal illness is best supported in designated facilities. C) Meaningful living during terminal illness is best supported in the home. D) Meaningful living during terminal illness is meant to prolong physiologic dying.
Clients taking MAO inhibitors who ingest aged cheeses, processed meats, pickled vegetables, or red wine are at risk for:
a. hypotension, dizziness, and pallor. b. palpitations, vertigo, and dyspnea. c. vasodilation, pounding headache, and blurred vision. d. severe headache, elevated blood pressure, and tachycardia.