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Mental Health Hesi PN Exam Test Bank Latest 2025
with 200 Real Exam Questions and Correct Verified
Answers with Rationales/ HESI PN Mental Health
Exam Practice Test Bank / PN Mental health Hesi
exam
To implement the concept of the least restrictive
treatment environment, care team members:
Select one:
a. Monitor the medications schedule.
b. Assess the client's ability to live alone.
c. Assess available financial resources.
d. Assess available community resources. -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Assess available community resources.
The term "sandwich generation" best describes adults:
Select one:
a. Caught between adulthood and late adulthood
b. Caring for their children and aging parents
c. Caring for their children and grandchildren
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d. Caught between young adulthood and adulthood -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Caring for their children and aging
parents
A male client is in the process of being admitted to a
mental health facility. He is sure that the nurse is the
administrator of the hospital, despite the nurse's
insistence that he is a staff nurse on the unit. This client
is experiencing:
Select one:
a. Acute confusion
b. Visual hallucinations
c. Delusions
d. Auditory hallucinations - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Delusions
A client with the diagnosis of depersonalization disorder
notices that he experiences periods of depersonalization
when confronted with certain stressors. When developing
the care plan, the nurse is aware that one of the most
helpful activities in self-control for this client is for the
client to:
Select one:
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a. Contact a treatment team member to discuss his
thoughts and feelings every time he is confronted with a
stressor.
b. Keep a daily journal of his thoughts and feelings, paying
special attention to thoughts and feelings during stressful
times.
c. Recall periods of stressful times in his life during his
clinic visit.
d. Join an exercise program that will help to decrease his
stress level. - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Keep a daily journal of his
thoughts and feelings, paying special attention to
thoughts and feelings during stressful times.
For children older than 4 years, separation anxiety should
last for no longer than:
Select one:
a. A few days
b. A few weeks
c. A few months
d. 1 year - ...ANSWER...✓✓ A few months
The nurse begins discharge planning measures with a
hospitalized client:
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Select one:
a. Near the time of discharge
b. At the time of admission
c. 3 days into the hospital stay
d. On the day before discharge - ...ANSWER...✓✓ At the
time of admission
During a crisis assessment due to the diagnosis of a
terminal illness, the nurse is trying to determine what the
client's history is with regard to losses. Which question
will best assess this area?
Select one:
a. "How easily do you adapt to new situations?"
b. "What is your understanding of the current situation?"
c. "Who or what has helped you through crisis situations
in the past?"
d. "How is this situation affecting your family?" -
...ANSWER...✓✓ "Who or what has helped you through
crisis situations in the past?"
While performing a search of an adult male's home based
on suspicion of criminal activity, the police find pictures of
Mental Health Hesi PN Exam Test Bank Latest 2025
with 200 Real Exam Questions and Correct Verified
Answers with Rationales/ HESI PN Mental Health
Exam Practice Test Bank / PN Mental health Hesi
exam
To implement the concept of the least restrictive
treatment environment, care team members:
Select one:
a. Monitor the medications schedule.
b. Assess the client's ability to live alone.
c. Assess available financial resources.
d. Assess available community resources. -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Assess available community resources.
The term "sandwich generation" best describes adults:
Select one:
a. Caught between adulthood and late adulthood
b. Caring for their children and aging parents
c. Caring for their children and grandchildren
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d. Caught between young adulthood and adulthood -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Caring for their children and aging
parents
A male client is in the process of being admitted to a
mental health facility. He is sure that the nurse is the
administrator of the hospital, despite the nurse's
insistence that he is a staff nurse on the unit. This client
is experiencing:
Select one:
a. Acute confusion
b. Visual hallucinations
c. Delusions
d. Auditory hallucinations - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Delusions
A client with the diagnosis of depersonalization disorder
notices that he experiences periods of depersonalization
when confronted with certain stressors. When developing
the care plan, the nurse is aware that one of the most
helpful activities in self-control for this client is for the
client to:
Select one:
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a. Contact a treatment team member to discuss his
thoughts and feelings every time he is confronted with a
stressor.
b. Keep a daily journal of his thoughts and feelings, paying
special attention to thoughts and feelings during stressful
times.
c. Recall periods of stressful times in his life during his
clinic visit.
d. Join an exercise program that will help to decrease his
stress level. - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Keep a daily journal of his
thoughts and feelings, paying special attention to
thoughts and feelings during stressful times.
For children older than 4 years, separation anxiety should
last for no longer than:
Select one:
a. A few days
b. A few weeks
c. A few months
d. 1 year - ...ANSWER...✓✓ A few months
The nurse begins discharge planning measures with a
hospitalized client:
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Select one:
a. Near the time of discharge
b. At the time of admission
c. 3 days into the hospital stay
d. On the day before discharge - ...ANSWER...✓✓ At the
time of admission
During a crisis assessment due to the diagnosis of a
terminal illness, the nurse is trying to determine what the
client's history is with regard to losses. Which question
will best assess this area?
Select one:
a. "How easily do you adapt to new situations?"
b. "What is your understanding of the current situation?"
c. "Who or what has helped you through crisis situations
in the past?"
d. "How is this situation affecting your family?" -
...ANSWER...✓✓ "Who or what has helped you through
crisis situations in the past?"
While performing a search of an adult male's home based
on suspicion of criminal activity, the police find pictures of
