MENTAL HEALTH: FINAL SAMPLE QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE VERIFIED SOLUTIONS VERIFIED

MENTAL HEALTH: FINAL SAMPLE QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE VERIFIED SOLUTIONS VERIFIED Terms in this set (435) Which intervention would be appropriate for a client with antisocial personality disorder who has a nursing diagnosis of, Defensive coping related to manipulation of others? Refer requests and questions related to care to primary nurse. A client with antisocial personality disorder tells Nurse A, "You're a much better nurse than Nurse B said you were." The client tells Nurse B, "Nurse A's upset with you for some reason." To Nurse C, the client states, "You'd like to think you're perfect, but I've seen three of your mistakes this morning." These interactions can be assessed as manipulative The nurse reports to the interdisciplinary team that a client with antisocial personality disorder lies to other clients, verbally abuses a client with Alzheimer's disease, flatters his primary nurse, and is detached and superficial with the psychiatrist. Which behavior most clearly warrants limit setting? verbal abuse of another client N is a client remanded by the court after his wife had him jailed for battery. At his arraignment he told the judge how sorry he was and suggested he needed psychiatric help. His history reveals acting-out behaviors as an adolescent and several adult arrests. The nurse interviews him about his relationship with his wife. Which statement would be most characteristic of the thinking of an individual with an antisocial personality disorder? "I hit her because she nags at me. She deserves it whenever I beat her up When it becomes apparent that N, the client with antisocial personality disorder, uses manipulation as a way of getting his needs met, the staff members agree to consider limit-setting as an intervention. The rationale for limit- setting as an intervention to diminish manipulative behavior is which of the following? External controls are necessary while internal controls are being developed A physician mentions to a nurse that a newly admitted client is impulsive. The nurse will assess for behavior that is characterized by little time between the thought and the action The nurse is assigned to perform an assessment of a client diagnosed as having paranoid personality disorder. When the interview is documented, the nurse is most likely to describe the client as guarded and suspicious