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NUR 165 Final Exam COMPLETE NEWEST 200
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR
A nurse is educating a client about automatic refills of prescribed medications. This nursing
intervention is an example of what level of prevention?
Primary Prevention
Secondary Prevention
Tertiary Prevention
Quaternary Prevention
Tertiary prevention - management of chronic diseases, and rehabilitation support services to
slow down the progression of diseases
Secondary Prevention: health assessment and screening to facilitate early ID of chronic diseases
Primary Prevention: Health promotion, advisory and counseling services and educational
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programs to drive lifestyle changes for the prevention of chronic diseases
Quaternary: I dont event know what this is. just another multiple choice answer
A MH nurse is utilizing milieu therapy to provide a therapeutic environment for their clients.
Which of the following steps of the nursing process is the nurse demonstrating?
Implementation
Inpatient MH clients must do what before taking antipsychotic medications?
Sign medication consent form
A nurse is reviewing ethical principles with a newly licensed nurse. The nurse should include
which of the following as an ethical principle.
Justice
HIPPA
Bias
"Duty to Warn"
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Justice - In mental health there are ethical principles that guide how nurses should act
regarding ethical issues. Ethical principles can include beneficence, autonomy, and justice. The
American Nurses Association has a code of ethics that assists in guiding nurse in how to make
ethical decisions in health care.
A nurse is caring for a 9-year-old child who is shy and fearful. The nurse asks the child a
question, but the child does not answer immediately. What is the best approach by the nurse
to develop a therapeutic relationship with the child?
a. explain the questions with medical words
b. Use common cliche's when asking questions
c. remain silent after asking a question to allow the client a chance to respond
d. tell the child the consequences of not answering
C. Remain silent after asking a question to allow the child a chance to respond. Silence offers an
opportunity for the child to answer spontaneously and cautiously. More information is usually
forthcoming if the nurse gives the child the opportunity to respond. All other choices are could
potentially interfere with communication in the pediatric population.
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Why is therapeutic communication important in MH nursing?
A. "Therapeutic communication is only necessary for severe mental health issues."
B. "Therapeutic communication is mainly focused on entertaining the client rather than
addressing their mental health concerns."
C. Key component of mental health nursing and the therapeutic nurse-client relationship that
improves the emotional wellbeing of the client.
D. "Establishing a nurse-client relationship is a time-consuming process with minimal impact
on client wellbeing."
C. Key component of mental health nursing and the therapeutic nurse-client relationship that
improves the emotional wellbeing of the client.
A nurse is interviewing a client who states, "I am at a total loss and don't know what to do
anymore. I feel hopeless." Which of the following responses should the nurse make?
You feel like you have no remaining options and are struggling to find a solution
A nurse has described the behavioral health unit being based on milieu therapy to a client.
The client asks, "How is a unit which has milieu therapy different from other hospital units?"
Which of the following responses should the nurse make?
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NUR 165 Final Exam COMPLETE NEWEST 200
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR
A nurse is educating a client about automatic refills of prescribed medications. This nursing
intervention is an example of what level of prevention?
Primary Prevention
Secondary Prevention
Tertiary Prevention
Quaternary Prevention
Tertiary prevention - management of chronic diseases, and rehabilitation support services to
slow down the progression of diseases
Secondary Prevention: health assessment and screening to facilitate early ID of chronic diseases
Primary Prevention: Health promotion, advisory and counseling services and educational
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, Page 2 of 50
programs to drive lifestyle changes for the prevention of chronic diseases
Quaternary: I dont event know what this is. just another multiple choice answer
A MH nurse is utilizing milieu therapy to provide a therapeutic environment for their clients.
Which of the following steps of the nursing process is the nurse demonstrating?
Implementation
Inpatient MH clients must do what before taking antipsychotic medications?
Sign medication consent form
A nurse is reviewing ethical principles with a newly licensed nurse. The nurse should include
which of the following as an ethical principle.
Justice
HIPPA
Bias
"Duty to Warn"
2
, Page 3 of 50
Justice - In mental health there are ethical principles that guide how nurses should act
regarding ethical issues. Ethical principles can include beneficence, autonomy, and justice. The
American Nurses Association has a code of ethics that assists in guiding nurse in how to make
ethical decisions in health care.
A nurse is caring for a 9-year-old child who is shy and fearful. The nurse asks the child a
question, but the child does not answer immediately. What is the best approach by the nurse
to develop a therapeutic relationship with the child?
a. explain the questions with medical words
b. Use common cliche's when asking questions
c. remain silent after asking a question to allow the client a chance to respond
d. tell the child the consequences of not answering
C. Remain silent after asking a question to allow the child a chance to respond. Silence offers an
opportunity for the child to answer spontaneously and cautiously. More information is usually
forthcoming if the nurse gives the child the opportunity to respond. All other choices are could
potentially interfere with communication in the pediatric population.
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Why is therapeutic communication important in MH nursing?
A. "Therapeutic communication is only necessary for severe mental health issues."
B. "Therapeutic communication is mainly focused on entertaining the client rather than
addressing their mental health concerns."
C. Key component of mental health nursing and the therapeutic nurse-client relationship that
improves the emotional wellbeing of the client.
D. "Establishing a nurse-client relationship is a time-consuming process with minimal impact
on client wellbeing."
C. Key component of mental health nursing and the therapeutic nurse-client relationship that
improves the emotional wellbeing of the client.
A nurse is interviewing a client who states, "I am at a total loss and don't know what to do
anymore. I feel hopeless." Which of the following responses should the nurse make?
You feel like you have no remaining options and are struggling to find a solution
A nurse has described the behavioral health unit being based on milieu therapy to a client.
The client asks, "How is a unit which has milieu therapy different from other hospital units?"
Which of the following responses should the nurse make?
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