HESI RN MENTAL HEALTH HESI
REVIEW A+ Guide
A patient who has been on an antidepressant for 2 weeks.
What should you watch for? - correct answer
✅✅suicidal attempts
patient states "I can't get my thoughts together I should
really sell my car. It's not in here.
Let's buy a car. What is the patient experiencing? -
correct answer ✅✅Tangential thinking
A patient won't take oral meds that is going through
alcohol withdrawal. The nurse starts giving saline lock per
alcohol protocol and thiamine. What do you tell them that
it will help with recovery? - correct answer
✅✅Thiamine will replenish alcohol effects on the body
(something to do with iron)
A nurse visits a community half way house with one
bathroom. The nurse notices urine all over the walls of
the bathroom. The toilet is clogged with feces and paper
towels. - correct answer ✅✅Infection control.
Older man who recently got divorced and is 2 years
sober, and an alcoholic loves God. He loves kids also.
What should nurse ask at his initial interaction? - correct
answer ✅✅What is troubling you most.
, HESI RN MENTAL HEALTH HESI
REVIEW A+ Guide
Schizophrenic patient returns to clinic 2 weeks after
receiving dose of Haldol; important info for
the nurse to obtain during this visit - correct answer
✅✅Current vital signs
Chronically depressed older male client of a long-term
care facility becomes more
reclusive and today refuses to leave room: - correct
answer ✅✅May I sit with for you a while
The nurse is assessing a client with postpartum
depression for changes in the .......Sign &
Symptoms that are consistent with postpartum
depression? Select all that apply - correct answer
✅✅Disturbed sleep
Sadness
Poor concentration
A sales executive presents to the psychiatric office for an
initial evaluation and tells the
nurse "My therapist said my wife was having an affair. I
had drinking problem for years, but I
REVIEW A+ Guide
A patient who has been on an antidepressant for 2 weeks.
What should you watch for? - correct answer
✅✅suicidal attempts
patient states "I can't get my thoughts together I should
really sell my car. It's not in here.
Let's buy a car. What is the patient experiencing? -
correct answer ✅✅Tangential thinking
A patient won't take oral meds that is going through
alcohol withdrawal. The nurse starts giving saline lock per
alcohol protocol and thiamine. What do you tell them that
it will help with recovery? - correct answer
✅✅Thiamine will replenish alcohol effects on the body
(something to do with iron)
A nurse visits a community half way house with one
bathroom. The nurse notices urine all over the walls of
the bathroom. The toilet is clogged with feces and paper
towels. - correct answer ✅✅Infection control.
Older man who recently got divorced and is 2 years
sober, and an alcoholic loves God. He loves kids also.
What should nurse ask at his initial interaction? - correct
answer ✅✅What is troubling you most.
, HESI RN MENTAL HEALTH HESI
REVIEW A+ Guide
Schizophrenic patient returns to clinic 2 weeks after
receiving dose of Haldol; important info for
the nurse to obtain during this visit - correct answer
✅✅Current vital signs
Chronically depressed older male client of a long-term
care facility becomes more
reclusive and today refuses to leave room: - correct
answer ✅✅May I sit with for you a while
The nurse is assessing a client with postpartum
depression for changes in the .......Sign &
Symptoms that are consistent with postpartum
depression? Select all that apply - correct answer
✅✅Disturbed sleep
Sadness
Poor concentration
A sales executive presents to the psychiatric office for an
initial evaluation and tells the
nurse "My therapist said my wife was having an affair. I
had drinking problem for years, but I
