5. Nursing staff members at a community mental health center are formulating an outpatient treatment plan with a 30-year-old patient with schizophrenia. A major consideration is that:
the patient will likely need weekly supportive treatment for life.
the patient will require a referral for vocational rehabilitation services.
the patient's contact with the center will diminish as he or she becomes stable, but the patient will continue to need support.
the patient's contact with the center will gradually decrease until his or her therapy can be terminated.
6. A supervisor observes inconsistency in the psychiatric and mental health nurse's behavior toward a patient; the nurse is unreasonably concerned, overly kind, or irrationally hostile. The most appropriate explanation is that the nurse is displaying:
countertransference.
empathic resonance.
negative transference.
splitting behavior.
7. During an initial patient interview, the psychiatric and mental health nurse begins by asking the patient to describe his or her:
current situation.
feelings about the current situation.
personal history.
thoughts about the current situation.
8. In which circumstance is a breach of patient confidentiality appropriate?
A supervisor inquires about the patient.
The family inquires about the patient without his or her knowledge.
The patient appears sincere in threatening to harm another person.
The patient has participated in illegal activity.
9. A short-term goal for a patient with Alzheimer's disease is:
improved problem solving in activities of daily living.
increased self-esteem and improved self-concept.
optimum functioning in the least restrictive environment.
regained sensory perception and cognitive function.
10. A 23-year-old patient with borderline personality disorder reports a frequent desire to cut him- or herself and insists that only a specific psychiatric and mental health nurse can help the patient. The nursing care plan for the patient includes:
allowing the patient to choose the nurse assigned to him or her.
decreasing the patient's stimuli.
holding frequent, interdisciplinary staff meetings to provide consistent care.
providing one-to-one suicide precautions.
11. Older adults have reached Erikson's developmental stage of ego integrity, when they:
acknowledge that one cannot get everything one wants in life.
assess their lives and identify actions that had value and purpose.
express a wish that life could be relived differently.
feel that they are being punished for things they did not do.
12. A patient states that unit staff members have been avoiding him or her since an attempt to self-mutilate. The psychiatric and mental health nurse's most appropriate response is to:
apologize for the staff's behavior.
explain that feelings of rejection are typical after self-mutilation.
listen, redirect the patient to his or her feelings, and explore the issue with the staff.
report the matter to the nurse manager.
13. When planning inpatient psychotherapeutic activities for a patient who has antisocial personality disorder, the psychiatric and mental health nurse:
focuses on group, rather than individual, therapy.
provides a permissive atmosphere, so the patient feels a sense of control.
provides an organized, structured environment.
recognizes that the disorder is characterized by social withdrawal.
14. According to family systems theory, removing the "identified patient" from the environment most likely causes the: