ATI RN
Behavioral Health Nursing Questions
Question 1 of 5
A psychiatric nurse discusses rules of the therapeutic milieu and patients rights with a newly admitted patient. Which rights should be included? (Select one that does not apply..) The right to:
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Patients rights should be discussed shortly after admission. Patients have rights related to receiving/refusing visitors, privacy, filing complaints about inadequate care, and accepting/refusing treatments (including medications). Patients do not have a right to a private room or selecting which nurse will provide care.
Question 2 of 5
An experienced psychiatric nurse plans to begin a new job in a community-based medication clinic. The clinic sees culturally diverse patients. Which action should the nurse take first to prepare for this position?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: An experienced nurse working on a mental health inpatient unit would be familiar with the action and side effects of most commonly prescribed psychotropic medications. However, because the clinic serves a culturally diverse population, reviewing cultural differences in patients responses to these medications is helpful and vital to patient safety. The distracters identify actions the nurse would take later.
Question 3 of 5
Which questions should the nurse ask to determine an individuals worldview? Select one that does not aplly.
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 4 of 5
A nurse is working with a patient whose background is very different from hers. A good question to ask herself to assure she can be effective working with this patient would be,
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: To best assess self-awareness, the nurse should ask 'What experiences have I had with people from ethnic groups, socioeconomic classes, religions, age groups, or communities different from my own?' The nurse should not focus on the patient when examining self-awareness, rather, how the nurse's experiences have shaped attitudes and beliefs.
Question 5 of 5
The nurse is mindful of maintaining relationships with patients that are therapeutic. Certain characteristics of the relationships the nurse will foster include:Select one that does not apply.
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: The therapeutic relationship focuses on the needs, experiences, feelings, and ideas of the client only. In the therapeutic relationship, the parameters are clear: the focus is the client's needs, not the nurse's. The nurse should not be concerned about whether or not the client likes him or her or is grateful. A social relationship is focuses on sharing ideas, feelings, and experiences and meets the basic need for people to interact. In social relationships, advice is often given. This should be avoided in therapeutic relationships.