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1 Rasmussen mental health Final Exam Questions with 100% correct Answers A nurse performed these actions while caring for patients in an inpatient psychiatric setting.Which action violated patients' rights?
- Prohibited a patient from using the telephone
- In patient's presence, opened a package mailed to patient
- Remained within arm's length of patient with homicidal ideation
- Permitted a patient with psychosis to refuse oral psychotropic medication. -
ANSWER✅✅A. Prohibited a patient from using telephone A psychiatric nurse discusses rules of the therapeutic milieu and patient's rights with a newly admitted patient. Which rights should be included? (Select all that apply)
The right to:
- Have visitors
- confidentiality
- A private Room
- complain about inadequate care
- select the nurse assigned to their care - ANSWER✅✅A. Have visitors
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- Complain about inadequate care
A nurse prepares to administer a scheduled injection of haloperidol to a patient with schizophrenia. As the nurse swabs the site, the patient shouts, "Stop! I don't want to take that medicine anymore. I hate the side effects." Select the nurse's best action.
- Assemble other stuff for a show of force and proceed with injection, using restrains if
necessary.
- Stop the medication administration procedure and say to the patient, "Tell me more about
the side effects you've been having."
- Proceed with the injection but explain to the patient that here are medications that will help
reduce the unpleasant side effects.
- Say to the patient, "Since i've already drawn the medication in the syringe, I'm required to
give it, but let's talk to the doctor about delaying next month's dose." - ANSWER✅✅B. Stop the medication administration procedure and say to the patient, "Tell me more about the side effects you've been having." An Adolescent hospitalized after a violent physical outburst tells the nurse, "i'm going to kill my father, but you can't tell anyone." Select the nurse's best response
- "you are right. Federal law requires me to keep clinical information private."
- "I Am obligated to share that information with the treatment team."
- "Those kinds of thoughts will make your hospitalization longer." 2 / 4
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- "You should share this thought with your psychiatrist." - ANSWER✅✅B. "I Am obligated to
share that information with the treatment team." A voluntary hospitalized patient tells the nurse, "Get me the forms for discharge. I want to leave now." Select the nurse's best response.
- "I Will get the form for you right now and bring them to your room."
- "Since you signed your consent for treatment, you may leave if you desire."
- "I will get them for you, but let's talk about your decision to leave treatment."
- "I cannot give you those forms without your healthcare provider's permission." -
ANSWER✅✅C. "I will get them for you, but lets talk about your decision to leave treatment." Which individual diagnosed with mental illness needs psychiatric hospitalization the most? An
individual:
- Who has a panic attack after her child gets lost in a shopping mall.
- With visions of demons emerging from cemetery plots throughout the community
- Who takes 38 acetaminophen tablets after the person's stock portfolio becomes worthless.
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- Diagnosed with major depression who stops taking prescribed antidepressant medication -
ANSWER✅✅C. Who take 38 acetaminophen tablets after the person's stock portfolio becomes worthless During which phase of the nurse-patient relationship can the nurse anticipate that identified patient issues will be explored and resolved?
- Preorientation
- Orientation
- Working
- Termination - ANSWER✅✅C. Working
A staff nurse completes orientation to a psychiatric unit. The nurse may expert an advanced practice nurse to perform which additional intervention?
- Conduct mental health assessments.
- Prescribed psychotropic medication
- Established therapeutic relationships.
- Individualize nursing care plans. - ANSWER✅✅B. Prescribed psychotropic medication
Which finding best indicates that the goal "Demonstrate mentally healthy behavior" was
achieved? A patient:
- Sees self as capable of achieving ideals and meeting demands
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