MENTAL HEALTH EXAM 1 NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL

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MENTAL HEALTH EXAM 1 NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL

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Assessment of a newly admitted client with major depression finds that the client has severe body odor. His daughter brings groceries and fills his medication box on a weekly basis. She reports that it seems that he has eaten very little in the past 2 weeks, and she reports that he hasn't been taking his medications for about the last 3-4 weeks. Which of the following are appropriate nursing diagnoses for this client?

A. Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements

• Ineffective health management
• Self-care deficit
• All of the above nursing diagnoses would be appropriate for this

client - ANSWER- D

Which of the following is not true about the DSM-5?

• The DSM-5 is a diagnostic tool to identify mental health diagnoses,

which is used by nurses, as well as providers, in the mental health setting.

• The DSM-5 is a diagnostic tool to identify mental health diagnoses,

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• The DSM-5 is a shortened name for the Diagnostic and Statistical

Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition

• The DSM-5 is used to identify diagnoses and diagnostic critieria to

guide assessment. - ANSWER- B

A client you are working with tells another patient, "The 'Shopatouliens' took my shoes out of my room last night." Which is an appropriate charting entry to describe this client's statement?

• "The client is verbalizing a word salad."
• "The client is expressing a neologism."
• "The client is experiencing command hallucinations."
• "The client is experiencing a paranoia." - ANSWER- B

A client you are working with tells another patient, "The shoe is dog table going television too." Which is an appropriate charting entry to describe the client's statement?

• "The client is verbalizing a word salad."
• "The client is experiencing a paranoia."
• "The client is experiencing command hallucinations."
• "The client is expressing a neologism." - ANSWER- A

Which of the following is a type of disordered thought content?

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• Paranoia
• Command hallucinations
• Word salad
• Neologism - ANSWER- A

Which statement would indicate to a nurse that an individual is experiencing a delusion?

• "I see my dead husband everywhere I go."
• "I'm not going to eat my food. It smells like brimstone."
• "The IRS may audit my taxes."
• "There's an alien growing in my liver." - ANSWER- D

Which statement should indicate to a nurse that an individual is experiencing a visual hallucination?

• "I'm not going to eat my food. It smells like brimstone."
• "I see my dead husband everywhere I go."
• "There's an alien growing in my liver."
• "The IRS may audit my taxes." - ANSWER- B

What is the difference between circumstantiality and tangentiality?

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• Circumstantiality is disordered thought formation; whereas,

tangentiality is disordered thought content.

• With circumstantiality, the person eventually gets to the point of the

story. With tangentiality, the person never gets to the point of the story.

• There is not a difference. Circumstantiality and tangentiality are two

terms for the same type of disordered thought formation.

• With tangentiality, the person eventually gets to the point of the story.

With circumstantiality, the person never gets to the point of the story. -

ANSWER- B

All of the following are true about aphasia, except:

• It may involve difficulty thinking of specific words
• It may involve not being able to recognize people who are significant

in their life

• It may involve difficulty forming words, as well as using incorrect

words

• It may involve making up words (neologisms) - ANSWER- B

Which of the following is true about poverty of speech?

• Poverty of speech is thought to be reflective of lack of thoughts to

express

• Someone with poverty of speech may speak very little
• Someone with poverty of speech may speak in monosyllables
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