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A nurse in an acute care facility is assessing a client who has schizophrenia. The client states,Walk tall broom short dag bell. The nurse should document the client's speech as which of the following speech patterns?

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: The correct answer is B: Word salad. This speech pattern is characterized by jumbled and incoherent words that do not form logical sentences. In this case, the client's speech is a mixture of unrelated words, indicating disorganized thinking commonly seen in schizophrenia. Flight of ideas (
A) involves rapid, continuous, and disconnected thoughts. Neologisms (
C) are newly created words that have meaning only to the client. Clang associations (
D) are words grouped together based on their sound rather than meaning. These options do not align with the client's speech pattern of word salad.

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