ATI RN
Psychiatric Nurse Certification Questions
Question 1 of 5
A nurse is teaching decision-making skills to a client with dependent personality disorder. According to Erikson, the likely cause of the client developing dependent personality is failure to meet the critical task of which developmental stage?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 2 of 5
Several family members arrive to visit an African American client. The nurse can best meet this client’s need for socialization by providing the client and family which of the following?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 3 of 5
How might the nurse best provide culturally competent care?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 4 of 5
A newly admitted acutely psychotic patient is a private patient of the medical director and a private-pay patient To whom does the psychiatric nurse assigned to the patient owe the duty of care?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 5 of 5
A person in the community asks, 'Why aren’t people with mental illness kept in state institutions anymore?' Select the nurse’s best response
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.