ATI RN
Assessing Health Behavior Nursing Questions
Question 1 of 5
A nurse wants to engage an interpreter for a severely anxious 21-year-old male who immigrated to the United States two years ago. Of the four interpreters below who are available and fluent in the patients language,which one should the nurse call?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: A professional interpreter will be most effective because he/she will be able to interpret both language and culture. When an interpreter is engaged, the interpreter should be matched to the patient as closely as possible in gender, age, social status, and religion. Interpreters should not be relatives or friends of the patient. The stigma of mental illness may prevent the openness needed during the encounter.
Question 2 of 5
A client who had been in a substance abuse treatment program asks the nurse for a date after the client is discharged. The nurse talks to the client about the importance of a therapeutic relationship and its characteristics. The nurse is using which of the following techniques?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: A therapeutic relationship is professional, and there are no mutual social goals; it is focused on meeting the client's needs and is terminated when the client no longer needs services. It is up to the nurse to maintain professional boundaries. The other choices would be inappropriate techniques to use toward this client.
Question 3 of 5
During the orientation phase of the nurse-patient relationship, the nurse directs the patient to do which of the following?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 4 of 5
Which role of the nurse is most likely to create difficulty for the nurse-client relationship if the client confuses physical care with intimacy and sexual interest?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: The caregiver role involves physical care (e.g., bathing), which some clients may misinterpret as intimacy, eroding the therapeutic relationship. Teacher focuses on education, advocate supports decisions, and parent surrogate sets limits or nurtures, none of which inherently involve physical closeness prone to misinterpretation.
Question 5 of 5
Which of the following statements would be an empathetic response in a client interaction?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.