You find a patient on the floor at shift change. She is awake and alert. She is confused now and was not controlled before being found on the floor.

What is your first step in the nursing process in this situation?

Thorazine 75 mg IM STAT ordered. Thorazine vial reads: 25 mg/mL. How many mLs will the nurse draw up?
Enter the answer as a number only.

Nurses who care for patients who are homeless understand that the in the United States:

While the nurse is talking with a female client, the client becomes quiet for several hours. Which is the nurse’s best response?

A male client is seeking help in a mental health clinic for anger management problems. He voices that he is fearful that his wife may divorce him because of his anger problem, and he is willing to do “whatever it takes’ to control his anger. Later in the week, the client’s wife also seeks assistance because she is going to divorce her husband.

The nurse who is caring for both of these clients tries to decide the correct action to take. The nurse is experiencing:

A nurse is interacting with a client who is expressing her feelings about her child’s insensitive behavior. Which statement made by the nurse indicates the nurse is empathizing with the client?

Choose the best answer.

The mentally ill were once housed in mental institutions known as:

According to Diana Baumrind, there are three types of parenting. A parent who sets up the rules and excludes the rules of the child is known as a:

A nurse is working with a patient and atempts to communicate effectively with him or her. Techniques the nurse can use to help communication include: (Select all that apply)

The nurse in the Emergency Department finds a woman collapsed on the floor and crying loudly. The woman’s husband was in a car accident and is being attended by the medical staff.

Which statement by the medical nurse best demonstrates acting in a culturally competent manner?

The following types of patients require adaptive communication techniques: (Select all that apply)