2024 HESI Psych Mental Health Nursing Guaranteed A+ Actual Questions and Answers, Complete 100%
- A 30-year-old sales manager tells the nurse, "I am thinking about a job
change. I don't feel like I am living up to my potential." Which of Maslow's
developmental stages is the sales manager attempting to achieve?:
Answer:
Self-Actualization
- The nurse plans to help an 18-year-old female mentally retarded client
ambulate the first postoperative day after an appendectomy. When the nurse tells the client it is time to get out of bed, the client becomes angry and tells the nurse, "Get out of here! I'll get up when I'm ready!" Which response is best
for the nurse to make?:
Answer:
I'll be back in 30 minutes to help you get out of bed and walk around the room.
- A 22-year-old male client is admitted to the emergency center following a
suicide attempt. His records reveal that this is his third suicide attempt in the past two years. He is conscious, but does not respond to verbal commands for treatment. Which assessment finding should prompt the nurse to prepare
the client for gastric lavage?:
Answer:
He is unresponsive to instructions and is unable to cooperate with emetic therapy
- A male client is admitted to a mental health unit on Friday afternoon and is
very upset on Sunday because he has not had the opportunity to talk with the healthcare provider. Which response is best for the nurse to provide this
client?:
Answer:
Let me call and leave a message for your healthcare provider.
- An elderly female client with advanced dementia is admitted to the hospital
with a fractured hip. The client repeatedly tells the staff, "Take me home. I want
my Mommy." Which response is best for the nurse to provide?:
Answer: 1 / 2
Tell the client that the nurse is there and will help her.
- The nurse is assessing the parents of a nuclear family who are attending a
support group for parents of adolescents. According to Erikson, these parents
who are adapting to middle adulthood should exhibit which characteristic?: -
Answer:
Increased self-understanding.
- The nurse suspects child abuse when assessing a 3-year-old boy and noticing
several small, round burns on his legs and trunk that might be the result of cigarette burns. Which parental behavior provides the greatest validation for
such suspicions?:
Answer:
The parents tell the nurse that the child was burned in a house fire which is incompatible with the nurse's observation of the type of burn
- A 25-year-old female client has been particularly restless and the nurse
finds her trying to leave the psychiatric unit. She tells the nurse, "Please let me go! I must leave because the secret police are after me." Which response
is best for the nurse to make?:
Answer:
Come with me to your room and I will sit with you.
- A 35-year-old male client on the psychiatric ward of a general hospital
believes that someone is trying to poison him. The nurse understands that a
client's delusions are most likely related to his:
Answer:
low self-esteem
- Which ego-defense mechanisms are exhibited by a phobic client who
refuses to leave her home?:
Answer:
Symbolization.
- A young adult male client, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, believes
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