ATI RN
Assessing Health Behavior Nursing Questions
Question 1 of 5
A person who has been unable to leave home for more than a week because of severe anxiety says, 'I know it does not make sense, but I just can't bring myself to leave my apartment alone.' Which nursing intervention is appropriate?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 2 of 5
The gas pedal on a person's car became stuck on a busy interstate highway, causing the car to accelerate rapidly. For 20 minutes, the car was very difficult to control. In the months after this experience, afterward, which assessment finding would the nurse expect?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: The scenario depicts a frightening, traumatic, and stressful situation. Severe dissociation or "mind flight" may occur for those who have suffered significant trauma. The episodic failure of dissociation causes intrusive symptoms such as flashbacks. The problems identified in the distracters may or may not occur.
Question 3 of 5
Relaxation techniques help patients who have experienced major traumas because they
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: In response to trauma, the sympathetic arousal symptoms of rapid heart rate and rapid respiration prepare the person for flight or fight responses. Afterward, the dorsal vagal response damps down the sympathetic nervous system. This is a parasympathetic response with the heart rate and respiration slowing down and decreasing the blood pressure. Relaxation techniques promote activity of the parasympathetic nervous system.
Question 4 of 5
A patient with blindness related to conversion (functional neurological) disorder says, "All the doctors and nurses in the hospital stop by often to check on me. Too bad people outside the hospital don't find me as interesting." Which nursing diagnosis is most relevant?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: The patient mentions that the symptoms make people more interested. This indicates that the patient feels uninteresting and unpopular without the symptoms, thus supporting the nursing diagnosis of chronic low self-esteem. Defining characteristics for the other nursing diagnoses are not present in the scenario.
Question 5 of 5
What is an essential difference between somatic symptom disorders and factitious disorders?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.