Which treatment setting would necessitate the most restrictive environment?
a. Partial hospitalization
b. Geropsychiatric unit
c. Forensic hospital
d. Group home
C
Patients in forensic hospitals have mental illness as well as conviction or charges for criminal activity. These settings must be therapeutic but also confine patients from society. Rules, regulations, and restrictions have similarities to those of prisons.
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A nurse is completing an initial home visit with a family. Which of the following nursing actions is most important to include?
a. Explore the client's ideas and perceptions about the purpose of the visits b. Identify with the client the contradictions in the client's words and health behaviors c. Refer the client to others in the health team d. Teach the client about solutions to his or her problems
A child has been placed on a corticosteroid for a rash caused by graftversus-host-disease. A side effect of the steroid the nurse should monitor is
1. hyperglycemia. 2. renal toxicity. 3. hepatic toxicity. 4. seizures.
Which of the following is not a component of Walumbwa and associates' review of authentic leadership?
a. Self-awareness b. Courage c. Internalized moral perspective d. Balanced processing
Mild-to-severe chest pain caused by ischemia of the myocardium is called:
a. a bruit. b. a myocardial infarction. c. cardiomegaly. d. angina pectoris.