Use of Self
Initially, the nurse should focus on successfully achieving which goal of effectively providing care for a client diagnosed with a mental illness.
What is establishing trust and rapport with the client?
The zone which is an acceptable distance between a speaker and an audience.
What is public?
A client has been attending group therapy sessions to reduce agitation and aggressive behavior. Which observation indicates to the nurse that the treatment has been effective?
What is sits forward in chair while bouncing both legs?
Flashbacks and feelings of unreality are associated with mental health problem.
What is Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
When assessing a client's potential for aggression and violence, the nurse identifies this as the most important predictor.
What is the client's history
The nurse is planning care for a client who has been newly diagnosed with a mental illness; the nurse's first step in managing this client's nursing care should be.
What is Evaluation?
The nurse is speaking with a client with their arms folded across their chest. The nurse's body language is interpreted by the client as.
What is nonacceptance toward the client?
A nurse is working in a psychiatric–mental health facility. The nurse observes a client pacing and punching the wall. Which measure can the nurse take for personal safety?
What is avoid being alone with the client?
A client is experiencing grief after the loss of a loved one. Upon assessment, the nurse observes the client has poor grooming, disheveled appearance, and tearful facial expressions and documents the client’s mood as.
What is depressed?
The phase of the aggression cycle is defined as occurring when an event or circumstance in the environment initiates the client's response.
What is triggering?
The nurse is conducting a health interview with a client and which statement indicates to the nurse that the client may have an undiagnosed mental illness.
What is “Life is so overwhelming?”
A client is admitted to an inpatient unit with an acute exacerbation of multiple sclerosis. The nurse observes the client crying frequently when visitors leave and the client states, "I just feel so hopeless." The nurse should implement which intervention?
What encourages therapeutic communication?
When assessing a client's potential for aggression and violence, which would the nurse identify as the most important predictor?
What is client's history?
A client continues to complain of chest pain and headaches after a disaster, even though all diagnostic tests are negative. In looking at risk factors for these symptoms, the nurse assesses for.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder.
The nurse is assessing a group of clients on an inpatient psychiatric unit and determines that a client most likely to be violent if the client has what problem.
What is Somatoform disorder?
In the early Christian period, treatment of clients who were thought to be possessed by demons causing their mental illness was .
What are the nurses?
The nurse is assessing the behavior of a client. The client has a cheerful expression, an erect posture, and a confident tone. Which statement made by the client along with these nonverbal cues conveys a congruent message?
What is “Is that so? I never knew that?”
To defuse a critical situation, the nurse can use therapeutic communication techniques for this reason.
What is shouting and letting the client know that this behavior is not tolerated?
The following disorders involve the emergence of varying personalities in a person that is associated with stress and conflict.
What is Dissociative identity disorder?
This drug has been effective in treating aggressive clients diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
What is Lithium?
In the 1970s, state mental hospitals came under increasing scrutiny and many were closed with and end result of this trend.
What is a lack of suitable housing for persons with mental illness?
A client who is hospitalized with a diagnosis of depression tells a nurse, "I don't want to take the medication because I'm afraid I'll become suicidal." Which response by the nurse would be most appropriate?
What is “Have you ever thought about hurting yourself?”
The primary goal of de-escalation is to resolve what this from happening on an inpatient unit.
What is social stigmatization?
A young adult client has recently moved to another city. The client is experiencing anorexia, insomnia, and difficulty functioning. The nurse identifies this type of crisis for the client.
What is situational?
This personality trait is associated with aggressive behavior.
What is Impulsivity?