What situation would least likely be an exception to the principle of confidentiality if the need to divulge the information outweighs the principle of confidentiality?
A.
Which of the following would NOT be considered a factor in a situational crisis?
A.
The psychiatric assessment process includes all but which component?
D.
When making an ethical decision, which of the following would not be included
as a step in the process?
A.
When a nurse communicates false information verbally about a patient this is known as which of the following?
C.
Deep emotional and cognitive restructuring is part of which phase of psychotherapy?
C.
What question should be asked if a patient does not know the year?
C.
Which of the following would be considered the best description of
pharmacokinetics?
A. The actions that a person’s body has on a drug.
B. The biochemical and physiological effects of medications on a person’s
body.
C. The extensive role of pharmaceuticals.
D. None of the above
A.
Which of the following symptoms would you expect to see in a patient with delirium as opposed to dementia?
B.
The landmark legal case which ruled that harmless mental patients cannot be confined against their will without treatment if they can survive outside is which of the following?
C. Durham v United States
B.
According to Anandarahah and Hight, in the assessment of spiritual needs, HOPE includes all of the following EXCEPT:
A.
When a client responds to help offered by a nurse and explores deeper feelings, identifying with the nurse, he or she is in which state of the nurse-client relationship?
C.
What would be a hard neurological sign of schizophrenia?
C.
A group leader can teach group members cures for groupthink. These cures would include all of the following EXCEPT:
surveying people affected by the problem A. under discussion
B. thinking critically
C. considering very limited alternatives
D. seeking other’s opinions
C.
The type of schizophrenia which is characterized by a flat affect with bizarre mannerisms and social isolation is which of the following?
A.
It is important to interpret the laboratory data from the initial assessment.
Which of the following statements would be most correct?
C.
When would a patient's informed consent not be necessary?
B.
What does research that does not provide adequate interpretive information lack?
C. .
When the healthcare professional acts as counselor to a patient by advocating a particular course of action, this is which approach to the relationship with a patient?
C.
What level of anxiety would a patient be experiencing if they were exhibiting a perceptual field that is greatly diminished, their attention span was extremely limited, and they were having difficulty completing even simple tasks?
B.
Of the following populations, which would not be likely to have the
resources to get mental health care?
D.
Intentional torts possess all of the following elements EXCEPT:
B.
Identify a common enzyme inducer.
D.
When prescribing Librium, a nurse knows that the MAXIMUM DOSE for a non-elderly adult patient is which of the following?
D.
All of the following are areas of focus for a nursing intervention EXCEPT:
D.
Which of the following is NOT a positive communication technique?
A.
Looking at a comparison between the stages of development according to
Freud, Erikson, and Piaget’s theories, under which of their theories would
the 17 year old be concerned with genitals?
