Mental health second questionnary

A psychiatric nurse routinely administers the following drugs to patients in the community mental health center. The patients who should be most carefully assessed for untoward cardiac side effects are those receiving:

Two days ago, a client was admitted to the inpatient psychiatric unit with a diagnosis of PTSD and a history of violence. Currently, he continues to have sleep problems, trouble with concentration, and has been feeling increased anger toward another patient who reminds him of a former colleague. Select the priority nursing diagnosis.

Mr. R presents with a history of having assumed a new identity in a distant locale. He has no recollection of his former identity. Which DSM-IV-TR diagnosis can the nurse expect the psychiatrist to make?

Which of the following best describes people with PTSD?

After completing an assessment of a client diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, the nurse finds which of the following to be true?

For the nurse working with patients with PTSD, which nursing intervention must be an ongoing prority?

Which interventions are appropriate to demands from a client with borderline personality disorder?

Typical goals of inpatient hospitalization for an anorexic patient do not include:

Which patient with an eating disorder would be at great risk for hypokalemia?

Which medication is likely to be used in the treatment of patients with eating disorders?

Which statement from a depressed patient might precede a suicide attempt?

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

When the nurse is caring for a depressed patient, the problem that should receive the highest nursing priority is:

A patient has a lithium level of 1.1

Which symptoms of schizophrenia are most amenable to treatment with both low and high potency antipsychotic medications?

Which nursing diagnosis is universally applicable to patients with schizophrenia?

a nurse is assessing a patient with suspected delirium will expect to find that the patient's symptoms developed: