This & That
What therapeutic priority should the nurse establish when working with a client newly diagnosed with an eating disorder?
What is establishing a trusting relationship with the patient?
If you ask the client their primary language, what are you identifying?
What is ethnicity ?
A patient with a neurocognitive disorder might be experiencing disorientation to what?
What is place and time?
This is the most likely perpetrator of child abuse, often contributing to a complex family dynamic of control and dependency.
What is a parent?
What are common signs of mania?
What is promiscuity, poor judgment, decreased need for sleep?
What is a common physical health risk associated with lithium therapy, particularly when dehydration is present?
What is Lithium toxicity?
This type of data in a psychosocial assessment includes observations of motor activity and affect.
What is objective?
This negative symptom of schizophrenia includes disinterest in personal grooming.
What is appearing disheveled or unkempt?
Your patient states, "He said he was sorry for hitting me and feels really bad about what happened." This represents what phase of the abuse cycle?
In older adults what symptoms may indicate depression?
What is pains, aches, confusion, and constipation?
How can a nurse help an Alzheimer’s patient avoid injury by reducing environmental hazard in their room?
What is arranging furniture to facilitate movement?
This mood description could be used for a client with depression.
What is "sad"?
Which symptom is the most common for autism spectrum disorder?
What is impaired social interaction?
Your elderly patient and caregiver provide inconsistent information about the patient falling. You suspect what?
What is Elder abuse?
Which older adult is most prone to suicide?
Female, 55 years old, Female, 60 years old, Male, 64 years old or, Male, 87 years old.
What is Male, 87 years old?
True or False. Maintaining a client's rights, even if they are homeless, is an essential principle for providing mental health care.
What is true?
This is a symptom commonly associated with mania, involving increased impulsivity.
What is "poor judgement?"
A client with untreated bipolar disorder falls into this high-risk category.
What is the highest risk for suicide?
This intervention is the priority for a patient who reports being beaten and raped.
What is stay with patient and provide emotional support?
An elderly patient has aphasia from a cerebrovascular accident (CVA), what need is the priority?
Sleep, nutrition, communication, or elimination
What is communication?
According to Maslow's what type of need is this: Basic needs including food, water, air, sleep, and shelter.
What is psychological?
During a psychosocial assessment, this observation could indicate a potential mood disorder if the client displays this type of emotional expression.
What is affect?
Which type of mood disorder includes periods of intense depressive symptoms followed by episodes of elevated or irritable mood?
What is Bipolar I disorder?
This type of aggression, often seen in abusers with a history of personal trauma, is typically impulsive and in reaction to emotional triggers.
What is reactive aggression?
A family member states, "My mom has been asking the same thing over and over again." What disorder could you suspect?
What is Alzheimer Disease?