ATI RN
Behavioral Questions for Nurse Questions
Question 1 of 5
A nurse encounters an unfamiliar psychiatric disorder on a new patients admission form. Which resource should the nurse consult to determine criteria used to establish this diagnosis?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 2 of 5
Select the example of tertiary prevention.
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 3 of 5
Which patient would be most appropriate to refer for assertive community treatment (ACT)? A patient diagnosed with:
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 4 of 5
A health care provider prescribed depot injections every 3 weeks at the clinic for a patient with a history of medication noncompliance. For this plan to be successful, which factor will be of critical importance?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: The ability of the patient to get to the clinic is of paramount importance to the success of the plan. The depot medication relieves the patient of the necessity to take medication daily, but if he or she does not receive the injection at 3-week intervals, non-adherence will again be the issue. Attitude toward the patient, trusting relationships, and nutrition are important but not fundamental to this particular problem.
Question 5 of 5
A person in the community asks, 'People with mental illnesses went to state hospitals in earlier times. Why has that changed?' Select the nurses accurate responses.Select one that does not apply.
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The community is a less restrictive alternative than hospitals for treatment of persons with mental illness. Funding for treatment of mental illness remains largely inadequate but now focuses on community rather than institutional care. Antipsychotic medications improve more symptoms of mental illness; hence, management of psychiatric disorders has improved. Rates of mental illness have increased, not decreased. Hospitals were closed because funding shifted to the community. Conditions in institutions have improved.