The nurse is completing a lethality assessment with a female client. Which are appropriate lethality risk questions? (Select all that apply.)
A) Is there a gun in your house?
B) Are you using drugs or drinking excessively?
C) Has your partner ever been arrested?
D) What is the worst thing your partner has ever done to you?
E) Do you feel that the partner is capable of hurting you?
Ans: A, C, D, E
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Appropriate questions to ask a client to assess for lethality risks associated with intimate partner violence include the following: (1) Is there a gun in the house? (2) Is the woman's partner unemployed? (3) What is the worst thing the partner has ever done to the victim? (4) Does the victim feel that the partner is capable of hurting her, of carrying out his threats? (5) Has the woman's partner ever been arrested? (6) Is the woman's partner (not the woman herself) using drugs or drinking excessively?
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