Health Hesi Review - Multiple Choice Exam With
Correct Answers,2025.
A nurse performed these actions while caring for patients in an inpatient psychiatric setting. Which action
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violated patients' rights?
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A. Prohibited a patient from using the telephone
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B. In patient's presence, opened a package mailed to patient
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C. Remained within arm's length of patient with homicidal ideation
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D. Permitted a patient with psychosis to refuse oral psychotropic medication. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A.
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Prohibited a patient from using telephone
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A psychiatric nurse discusses rules of the therapeutic milieu and patient's rights with a newly admitted
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patient. Which rights should be included? (Select all that apply)
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A. Have visitors
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B. confidentiality
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C. A private Room
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D. complain about inadequate care
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E. select the nurse assigned to their care - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A. Have visitors
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B. Confidentiality
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D. Complain about inadequate care
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A nurse prepares to administer a scheduled injection of haloperidol to a patient with schizophrenia. As the
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nurse swabs the site, the patient shouts, "Stop! I don't want to take that medicine anymore. I hate the side
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effects." Select the nurse's best action.
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A. Assemble other stuff for a show of force and proceed with injection, using restrains if necessary.
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B. Stop the medication administration procedure and say to the patient, "Tell me more about the side effects
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you've been having."
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C. Proceed with the injection but explain to the patient that here are medications that will help reduce the
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unpleasant side effects.
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D. Say to the patient, "Since i've already drawn the medication in the syringe, I'm required to give it, but let's
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talk to the doctor about delaying next month's dose." - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔B. Stop the medication
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administration procedure and say to the patient, "Tell me more about the side effects you've been having."
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An Adolescent hospitalized after a violent physical outburst tells the nurse, "i'm going to kill my father, but you
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can't tell anyone." Select the nurse's best response
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,A. "you are right. Federal law requires me to keep clinical information private."
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B. "I Am obligated to share that information with the treatment team."
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C. "Those kinds of thoughts will make your hospitalization longer."
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D. "You should share this thought with your psychiatrist." - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔B. "I Am obligated to share
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that information with the treatment team."
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A voluntary hospitalized patient tells the nurse, "Get me the forms for discharge. I want to leave now." Select
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the nurse's best response.
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A. "I Will get the form for you right now and bring them to your room."
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B. "Since you signed your consent for treatment, you may leave if you desire."
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C. "I will get them for you, but let's talk about your decision to leave treatment."
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D. "I cannot give you those forms without your healthcare provider's permission." - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔C.
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"I will get them for you, but lets talk about your decision to leave treatment."
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Which individual diagnosed with mental illness needs psychiatric hospitalization the most? An individual:
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A. Who has a panic attack after her child gets lost in a shopping mall.
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B. With visions of demons emerging from cemetery plots throughout the community
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, C. Who takes 38 acetaminophen tablets after the person's stock portfolio becomes worthless.
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D. Diagnosed with major depression who stops taking prescribed antidepressant medication - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔C. Who take 38 acetaminophen tablets after the person's stock portfolio becomes worthless
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During which phase of the nurse-patient relationship can the nurse anticipate that identified patient issues
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will be explored and resolved?
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A. Preorientation
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B. Orientation
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C. Working
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D. Termination - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔C. Working
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A staff nurse completes orientation to a psychiatric unit. The nurse may expert an advanced practice nurse to
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perform which additional intervention?
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A. Conduct mental health assessments.
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B. Prescribed psychotropic medication
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C. Established therapeutic relationships.
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D. Individualize nursing care plans. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔B. Prescribed psychotropic medication
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Which finding best indicates that the goal "Demonstrate mentally healthy behavior" was achieved? A patient:
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