ATI RN
Behavioral Health Nursing Questions
Question 1 of 5
An aide in a psychiatric hospital says to the nurse, 'We don’t have time every day to help each patient complete a menu selection Let’s tell dietary to prepare popular choices and send them to our unit' Select the nurse’s best response
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 2 of 5
After formulating the nursing diagnoses for a new patient, what is a nurses next action?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 3 of 5
A delusion represents a problem in which of the following areas?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 4 of 5
The nurse asks the client, 'What is similar about a cow and a horse?' and 'What do a bus and an airplane have in common?' These questions would best assess which of the following areas?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: These questions would elicit information about the client's intellectual function. Insight is the ability to understand the true nature of one's situation and accept some personal responsibility for that situation. Judgment refers to the ability to interpret one's environment and situation correctly and to adapt one's behavior and decisions accordingly. Questions about memory would require that the client identify knowledge of past events.
Question 5 of 5
A client is admitted to the psychiatric unit and states, 'I am president of the largest corporation in the world. Everyone comes to me for advice.' The client is exhibiting which of the following?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The client has a delusion (a fixed false belief not based in reality) about his superiority over others. Flight of ideas is excessive amount and rate of speech composed of fragmented or unrelated ideas. Thought broadcasting is a delusional belief that others can hear or know what the client is thinking. Loose associations are disorganized thinking that jumps from one idea to another with little or no evident relation between the thoughts.