MENTAL HEALTH EXAM 1 NEWEST 2025

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MENTAL HEALTH EXAM 1 NEWEST 2025

ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 100 QUESTIONS

AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS

(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED

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The nurse wishes to teach an alternative way of coping to a client experiencing severe anxiety. The nurse will first need to

• use measures designed to lower the client's anxiety
• determine the mode of learning preferred by the client
• devise outcomes and construct a teaching plan
• place the client in seclusion until the anxiety subsides -

CORRECT ANSWER -a

A client is noted to have a high level of non-goal-directed motor activity, running from chair to chair in the solarium. He is wide- eyed and seems terror-stricken. He cries, "They're coming!They're coming!" He neither follows staff direction nor responds to verbal efforts to calm him. A nursing diagnosis of high priority is

• Risk for injury 1 / 4

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• Self-care deficit
• Disturbed energy field
• Impaired verbal communication - CORRECT ANSWER -a

W is having a series of diagnostic tests. He insists there is nothing wrong with him except a chest cold that he can't "shake off." His wife says he smokes and coughs a lot, has lost 15 pounds, and is easily fatigued. What defense mechanism is W using?

• Regression
• Displacement
• Denial
• Projection - CORRECT ANSWER -c

W has a mass in the left upper lobe of his lung. He is scheduled to undergo a biopsy. When the nurse explains the procedure to him, he seems to have difficulty grasping what she is saying and asks questions such as, "What do you mean I'm going to have surgery? What are they going to do?" His voice is tremulous.His respirations are noticeably rapid at 28 breaths per minute, and his pulse is 110 beats per minute. W can be assessed as having a cognitive problem called

• Rationalization
• Conversion 2 / 4

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• Introjection
• selective inattention - CORRECT ANSWER -d

K, a college student who usually gets As, has received a C on a difficult examination. He runs to the college health service. He is disorganized and only partially coherent. In order to reduce K's level of anxiety as quickly as possible, the nurse should first

• stay with him
• tell him that help will come
• question him to discover the events that led to his de-

compensation

• tell him he will not be allowed to hurt anyone - CORRECT

ANSWER-a

Two staff nurses were considered for promotion. The promotion was announced via a memo on the unit bulletin board. The nurse who was not promoted told another friend, "I knew I'd never get the job. The hospital administrator hates me." If she actually believes this of the administrator, who, in reality, knows little of her, she is demonstrating

• Compensation
• Reaction formation
• Projection
• Denial - CORRECT ANSWER -c 3 / 4

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A woman speaking of a rival for her husband's affection says in a gushy, syrupy voice, "She is a lovely person. I simply adore her." The woman may be employing

• Reaction formation
• Projection
• Denial
• Repression - CORRECT ANSWER -a

T states that before taking an examination he feels a heightened sense of awareness and a sense of restlessness. What nursing intervention would be most suitable for assisting T?

• Explain his symptoms as resulting from mild anxiety and

discuss the helpful aspects of mild anxiety.

• Advise T to discuss his experience with a physician or

psychologist.

• Offer to obtain an order for an anxiolytic that T can take when

necessary.

• Listen without comment. - CORRECT ANSWER -a

For the client whose nursing diagnosis is powerlessness related to inability to control compulsive cleaning, the nurse recognizes that the client uses the cleaning to

• temporarily reduce anxiety
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