Exam 6: Mental Health Assessment

The nurse needs to determine if the 68-year-old patient is safe to continue living on his own in his own home.The nurse will complete a(n):

Which of the following questions does the nurse use to assess the orientation of the patient? (Select all that apply.)

The nurse is meeting the 25-year-old patient whose suicide attempt was not successful.The patient informs the nurse that he had recently returned from deployment to Afghanistan; he states that he feels angry all the time, he cannot sleep, and he keeps reliving the explosion that killed his buddy.The nurse recognizes these as symptoms of:

During the health history interview, the patient informs the nurse that she has not been able to keep a consistent job for the past 2 years, that she was evicted from her apartment, and that her fiancée just left her.She states, "I don't know what to do.I wish I could go to sleep and never wake up." The nurse recognizes that the patient is: