ATI LPN
Foundations and Adult Health Nursing Test Bank
Chapter 34 Questions
Question 1 of 5
A perceived threat to self causes what emotion?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Anxiety can be defined as a vague feeling of apprehension resulting from a perceived threat to self.
Question 2 of 5
Using Freud's personality theory, what action by a patient identifies the influence of the superego?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: The superego is the mediator between right and wrong (the conscience).
Question 3 of 5
When the patient is told that his insurance will no longer pay for his physical therapy, the nurse is aware that this obstruction to his goal may result in which concept?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Frustration refers to anything that interferes with goal-directed activity.
Question 4 of 5
When was psychiatric training for nurses initially offered?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: In 1882, McLean Hospital in Waverly, Massachusetts, provided the first psychiatric training school for nurses.
Question 5 of 5
A 40-year-old patient cries and has a tantrum when the health care provider refuses to give her a prescription for diet pills. The nurse realizes that this is the use of which defense mechanism?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Regression is a behavior that reflects the return to an earlier form of coping.