Exam 55: Psychiatric Disorders

Your coworker is noted to be very organized.However,you see that he is always making lists and citing the rules of the organization.He wants all his projects to be perfect and gets very upset when things happen that make him miss his deadlines.Your coworker is exhibiting signs of which personality disorder?

For a patient who is hyperactive with mania and has a nursing diagnosis of "Nutrition,altered,less than body requirements,related to hyperactivity," the nurse would add to the implementations:

To listen therapeutically to the patient,the nurse should try to:

The nurse explains that the probable causes of mood disorders include all of the following except:

A patient who is admitted with PTSD says he had a very stressful experience when in high school and has never really recovered.Appropriate nursing action would be to:

A patient given anxiolytic medications for his mental disorder is being treated using a(n)_______________ approach.

The nurse assessing the patient with an acute stress disorder will note the evidence of: (Select all that apply.)

A patient who takes lithium for manic episodes has been walking daily.Now that the weather is hot,it is important to instruct the patient to:

One of the long-time patients with schizophrenia in the inpatient unit has developed involuntary movements of his tongue.The nurse assesses that this patient has developed: