Mental Health Nursing Quiz | Practice MCQ #mcq.ImBooz

• (A) Religious
• (B) Cultural
• (C) Economic
• (D) Ethnic

Check AnswerSolution[B]:-Proxemics, or spatial distances vary among the cultures. What is comfortable and appropriate for some is not appropriate for others.

• (A) Hatred
• (B) Abuse
• (C) Prejudice
• (D) Stereotype

Check AnswerSolution[C]:-Prejudice means to “pre-judge.” It is making a decision about a person, situation, etc., prior to having all necessary information.

• (A) Deinstitutionalization
• (B) Access to community services
• (C) Mental illness
• (D) All of the above

Check AnswerSolution[B]:-Homelessness is not a mental illness but may be a condition of mental illness. It is difficult for this population of people to access the health-care and community services available.

• (A) Homelessness is classified as a mental illness.
• (B) Approximately one-third of the homeless are mentally ill.
• (C) All the homeless have some form of mental illness.
• (D) People must be mentally ill to choose to be homeless.

Check AnswerSolution[B]:-Approximately one-third of the homeless in the United States are mentally ill.

• (A) Call an assistance code.
• (B) Remove all religious items.
• (C) Do nothing: it is his or her religious right.
• (D) Enlist the assistance of a religious representative to negotiate removal of the item(s) in question.

Check AnswerSolution[D]:-Enlist the assistance of a religious representative to negotiate removal of the item(s) in question. Other safety actions may also be required, but right now, relating to this individual at his or her spiritual level is necessary not only for the patient’s religious freedom of expression, but also to get him or her to be able to cooperate with additional nursing actions.

• (A) Report the parents for child endangerment, as nurses are mandatory reporters.
• (B) Inform the parents that this child could die without the required insulin.
• (C) Leave the room and call a doctor or RN to the room stat.
• (D) Collect information pertaining to what the religion would allow and facilitate discussion with the doctor.

Check AnswerSolution[D]:-Actually, all of the responses are correct.Nurses are mandatory reporters for suspected abuse/neglect/endangerment of children. Certainly, the child could ultimately die from uncontrolled diabetes. It is appropriate to call the RN and MD to the exam room, but a stat call would not be necessary. You are there: The best choice is to sit with the family for a time, gain their trust, and collect more information that could be used to modify the care plan or assist the MD in appropriate referrals for the best care of this child and family.

• (A) Most homeless people are unemployed.
• (B) Culture is a shared belief system.
• (C) Prejudice exists within the health-care delivery system.
• (D) There is no correlation between mental illness and the condition of homelessness.

Check AnswerSolution[D]:-Many homeless fall into the “working poor” category and are actually working full-time jobs. Approximately one-third of the homeless also have a mental illness, quite often schizophrenia.

• (A) Religion
• (B) Culture
• (C) Ethnocentrism
• (D) Ethnicity

Check AnswerSolution[D]:-Ethnicity is defined by a personal trait or common characteristics relating to a specific group of people.

• (A) The child has little or no voice in any of the family’s decisions.
• (B) The parents are always reminding the child that they are the parents.
• (C) The child has a minimum amount of guidelines.
• (D) The child has rules and has limits set.

Check AnswerSolution[D]:-Authoritative parenting focuses on the setting of rules and limits setting by the child.

• (A) Economic setbacks
• (B) Mental health
• (C) Major health expenses
• (D) Desire to live independently

Check AnswerSolution[B]:-Though mental illness is a common cause of homelessness, the economy and loss of assets from health-care expenses has been contributing factors for some.

• (A) Systematic organization and implementation of patient care
• (B) Documenting patient needs
• (C) Differentiating the RN role from the LPN/LVN role
• (D) Data collection

Check AnswerSolution[A]:-Nursing process is a systematic way of collecting data to have consistency in patient care. Options B and C are incorrect, even though nurses do document patient needs and RN and LPN/LVN roles are different in the nursing process. Patient needs are not usually documented as part of the nursing process per se. D is incorrect because the nurse needs to know the difference between medical and nursing care prior to writing the nursing process. Only nursing care is incorporated into the nursing process.

• (A) “Do you use alcohol?”
• (B) “How often do you get drunk?”
• (C) “How many times a week would you say you drink alcohol?”
• (D) “Why do you use alcohol? It’s bad for you.”

Check AnswerSolution[C]:-This is the best choice of those listed.It asks what you need to know, but it asks from the patient’s perspective. It is less judgmental than the other choices.

• (A) Lecture
• (B) Redemonstration
• (C) Implementation
• (D) Assessment

Check AnswerSolution[B]:-Return demonstration (redemonstration) is the best method for evaluating the patient’s learning. Option A is a method of teaching. C and D are steps in the nursing process and steps in developing a teaching plan.

• (A) Assessment
• (B) Plan
• (C) Implementation
• (D) Evaluation

Check AnswerSolution[A]:-Mental status examinations are made as part of the assessment or data collection part of the nursing process.

• (A) Short-term goals
• (B) Long-term goals
• (C) Subjective
• (D) Objective

Check AnswerSolution[B]:-Planning is the third component in the Nursing Process. In the planning process the nurse plans measurable and realistic goals, both for long and short term.

• (A) Nursing diagnosis
• (B) Implementation/interventions
• (C) Evaluation
• (D) Assessment

Check AnswerSolution[A]:-The registered nurse initiates the nursingdiagnosis from the patient’s data collection or assessment.The LPN/LVN can assist in this step.

• (A) Being flexible
• (B) Evaluate the learning
• (C) Teach without a teaching plan
• (D) Know the patient

Check AnswerSolution[D]:-The principle of teaching enhances the patient’s understanding of the nurses’ rationale for the specific interventions in their care.

• (A) Memory
• (B) Judgment
• (C) Level of awareness and orientation
• (D) Mood and affect

Check AnswerSolution[D]:-Tone is not part of the mental status exam.

• (A) Interventions
• (B) Implementation
• (C) Appearance
• (D) Nursing diagnosis

Check AnswerSolution[D]:-The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) is a universal and systematic approach in defining a person’s needs according to his/her assessment using nursing diagnosis.

• (A) Discharge to home
• (B) More time injecting the orange
• (C) Informal teaching
• (D) Formal teaching

Check AnswerSolution[D]:-Formal teaching occurs when the patient is ready. The nurse can then prepare a teaching plan. The nurse will also schedule a specific time for teaching and feedback of the learned