ATI RN
Behavioral Health Nurse Certification Questions
Question 1 of 5
Which scenario best depicts a behavioral crisis? A patient is:
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: This behavior constitutes a behavioral crisis because the patient is threatening harm to another individual. Intervention is called for to defuse the situation. The other options speak of behaviors that may require intervention of a less urgent nature because the patients in question are not threatening harm to self or others.
Question 2 of 5
A black patient,originally from Haiti has a diagnosis of depression. A colleague tells the nurse,This patient often looks down and is reluctant to share feelings. However,I've observed the patient spontaneously interacting with other black patients. Select the nurses best response.
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Society expects a culturally diverse patient to accommodate and use English. Feelings are abstract, which requires a greater command of the language. This may be especially difficult during episodes of high stress or mental illness. Cultural brokers can be helpful with language and helping the nurse to understand the Haitian worldview and cultural nuances.
Question 3 of 5
A patient in the emergency department shows a variety of psychiatric symptoms,including restlessness and anxiety. The patient says,I feel sad because evil spirits have overtaken my mind. Which worldview is most applicable to this individual?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Persons of an indigenous worldview believe disease results from a lack of personal, interpersonal, environmental, or spiritual harmony and that evil spirits exist. The holism of body-mind-spirit is a key component of this view. If one believes an evil spirit has taken control, distress results. Western and Eastern worldviews do not embrace spirits.
Question 4 of 5
A nurse cares for a first-generation American whose family emigrated from Germany. Which worldview about the source of knowledge would this patient likely have?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 5 of 5
A nurse makes the statement in a treatment team meeting, 'It's not worth it to try to teach this patient how to make better choices. He has been here many times before and goes back home and does the same thing.' The nurse is sharing which of the following?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Attitudes are general feelings or a frame of reference around which a person organizes knowledge about the world and people. Values are abstract standards that give a person a sense of right and wrong and establish a code of conduct for living. Beliefs are ideas that one holds to be true; for example, 'All old people are hard of hearing,' and 'If the sun is shining, it will be a good day.'