Quiz 1-4 Psych Nursing Boyd question and answers
The client has been living in the community with schizophrenia. Which drug classification is the primary
treatment for schizophrenia?
Antidepressants
Antimanics
Antipsychotics
Anticoagulants
Antipsychotics
During the nursing assessment, a client describes constantly hearing voices mumbling in the background.
The client denies that the voices are telling the client to do anything harmful. The nurse documents that
the client is experiencing what?
Olfactory hallucinations
Auditory hallucinations
Command Hallucinations
Gustatory Hallucinations
Auditory Hallucinations
,A client with schizophrenia is receiving antipsychotic therapy. The nurse understands that which is a
medical emergency should develop in the client?
Tardive Dyskinisia
Parkinsonism
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
Akathisia
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
Which would be the most important to assess and document in a client with depression?
Appetite
Suicide Risk
Sleep disturbance
Weigh Change
Suicide Risk
The client is taking a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) for depression. The nurse educates the client
to avoid foods containing what while taking this medication?
Tyramine
, Potassium
Calcium
Sugar
Tyramine
A client who just went through an upsetting divorce is threatening to commit suicide with a handgun.
The client is involuntarily admitted to the psych unit. Which nursing diagnosis has priority?
Risk for suicide r/t highly lethal plan
Hopelessness r/t recent divorce
Ineffective coping related to inadequate stress management
Spiritual distress r/t conflicting thoughts about suicide and sin
Risk for suicide related to highly lethal plan
A nurse is assessing a client with bipolar who is experiencing mania. The client states, "im just so
important and beautiful. Everyone just stops and stares at how gorgeous I am. People are constantly
want to have sex with me." The nurse interprets these statements as indicative of which type of mood?
Expansive
Irritable
The client has been living in the community with schizophrenia. Which drug classification is the primary
treatment for schizophrenia?
Antidepressants
Antimanics
Antipsychotics
Anticoagulants
Antipsychotics
During the nursing assessment, a client describes constantly hearing voices mumbling in the background.
The client denies that the voices are telling the client to do anything harmful. The nurse documents that
the client is experiencing what?
Olfactory hallucinations
Auditory hallucinations
Command Hallucinations
Gustatory Hallucinations
Auditory Hallucinations
,A client with schizophrenia is receiving antipsychotic therapy. The nurse understands that which is a
medical emergency should develop in the client?
Tardive Dyskinisia
Parkinsonism
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
Akathisia
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
Which would be the most important to assess and document in a client with depression?
Appetite
Suicide Risk
Sleep disturbance
Weigh Change
Suicide Risk
The client is taking a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) for depression. The nurse educates the client
to avoid foods containing what while taking this medication?
Tyramine
, Potassium
Calcium
Sugar
Tyramine
A client who just went through an upsetting divorce is threatening to commit suicide with a handgun.
The client is involuntarily admitted to the psych unit. Which nursing diagnosis has priority?
Risk for suicide r/t highly lethal plan
Hopelessness r/t recent divorce
Ineffective coping related to inadequate stress management
Spiritual distress r/t conflicting thoughts about suicide and sin
Risk for suicide related to highly lethal plan
A nurse is assessing a client with bipolar who is experiencing mania. The client states, "im just so
important and beautiful. Everyone just stops and stares at how gorgeous I am. People are constantly
want to have sex with me." The nurse interprets these statements as indicative of which type of mood?
Expansive
Irritable
