ATI RN
Behavioral Health Nursing Care Plans Questions
Question 1 of 5
Select the example of primary prevention.
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Primary preventions are directed at healthy populations with a goal of preventing health problems from occurring. Helping school-age children describe normal emotions people experience promotes coping, a skill that is needed throughout life. Assisting a person with serious and persistent mental illness to fill a pill-minder is an example of tertiary prevention. Medicating an acutely ill patient who assaulted a staff person is a secondary prevention. Leading a psychoeducational group in a community care home is an example of tertiary prevention.
Question 2 of 5
Which Western cultural feature may result in establishing unrealistic outcomes for patients of other cultural groups?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Directly confronting problems is a highly valued approach in the American culture but not part of many other cultures in which harmony and restraint are valued. American nurses sometimes mistakenly think that all patients should take direct action. Patients with other values will be unable to meet this culturally inappropriate outcome.
Question 3 of 5
Which viewpoint of an Asian American family will most affect decision making about care?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 4 of 5
A Vietnamese patients family reports that the patient has wind illness. Which menu selection will be most helpful for this patient?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Wind illness is a culture-bound syndrome found in the Chinese and Vietnamese population. It is characterized by a fear of cold, wind, or drafts. It is treated by keeping very warm and avoiding foods, drinks, and herbs that are cold. Warm broth would be most in sync with the patients culture and provide the most comfort. The distracters are cold foods.
Question 5 of 5
The nurse initiating a therapeutic relationship with a client should explain the purpose, which is to
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: The client who has unmet or unsatisfactorily met needs seeks to make changes; the nurse facilitates this desire to change. The focus of the therapeutic relationship is on the client's needs, not the nurse's. The orientation phase begins when the nurse and client meet and ends when the client begins to identify problems to examine. During the orientation phase, the nurse establishes roles, the purpose of meeting, and the parameters of subsequent meetings; identifies the client's problems; and clarifies expectations.