Which of the following statements about hope and symptoms of mental illness are true?Select one that does not apply.

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Question 1 of 5

Which of the following statements about hope and symptoms of mental illness are true?Select one that does not apply.

A. Hope is not realistic and therefore is not related to mental well-being. B. Persons having more hope experienced fewer actual symptoms. C. Hope is a cause of mental illness. D. There is not a significant relationship between hopelessness and increased symptoms.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 2 of 5

The nurse is making a cultural assessment of a client. The most important data about a client’s cultural beliefs are

A. objective data about the culture. B. subjective data from the client. C. subjective data from the family. D. subjective data from society.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 3 of 5

A nurse is concerned that an agency’s policies are inadequate Which understanding about the relationship between substandard institutional policies and individual nursing practice should guide nursing practice?

A. Agency policies do not exempt an individual nurse of responsibility to practice according to professional standards of nursing care B. Agency policies are the legal standard by which a professional nurse must act and therefore override other standards of care C. Faced with substandard policies, a nurse has a responsibility to inform the supervisor and discontinue patient care immediately D. Interpretation of policies by the judicial system is rendered on an individual basis and therefore cannot be predicted

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 4 of 5

A patient with psychosis became aggressive, struck another patient, and required seclusion Select the best documentation

A. Patient struck another patient who attempted to leave day room to go to bathroom Seclusion necessary at Plan: Maintain seclusion for hours and keep these two patients away from each other for hours B. Seclusion ordered by physician at after command hallucinations told the patient to hit another patient Careful monitoring of patient maintained during period of seclusion C. Seclusion ordered by MD for aggressive behavior Begun at Maintained for hours without incident Outcome: Patient calmer and apologized for outburst D. Patient pacing, shouting Haloperidol mg given PO at No effect by At patient yelled, 'I’ll punch anyone who gets near me,' and struck another patient with fist Physically placed in seclusion at Seclusion order obtained from MD at

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 5 of 5

The desired outcome for a patient experiencing insomnia is, 'Patient will sleep for a minimum of hours nightly within days' At the end of days, review of sleep data shows the patient sleeps an average of hours nightly and takes a -hour afternoon nap The nurse will document the outcome as:

A. consistently demonstrated B. often demonstrated C. sometimes demonstrated D. never demonstrated

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

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