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    This document contains two situations describing different crisis scenarios and 10 multiple choice questions related to crisis intervention, psychiatric nursing, and psychological disorders. The first situation describes a rape crisis that could develop into a family crisis. The questions that follow ask about the nurse's role in caring for a rape victim, forms of crisis intervention, and typical crisis resolution timeframes. The second situation describes a nurse caring for patients with schizophrenia and psychosis. The remaining questions cover topics like client speech patterns, defense mechanisms, reasons for psychotropic medication, and characteristics of Alzheimer's dementia.

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    This document contains two situations describing different crisis scenarios and 10 multiple choice questions related to crisis intervention, psychiatric nursing, and psychological disorders. The first situation describes a rape crisis that could develop into a family crisis. The questions that follow ask about the nurse's role in caring for a rape victim, forms of crisis intervention, and typical crisis resolution timeframes. The second situation describes a nurse caring for patients with schizophrenia and psychosis. The remaining questions cover topics like client speech patterns, defense mechanisms, reasons for psychotropic medication, and characteristics of Alzheimer's dementia.

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    This document contains two situations describing different crisis scenarios and 10 multiple choice questions related to crisis intervention, psychiatric nursing, and psychological disorders. The first situation describes a rape crisis that could develop into a family crisis. The questions that follow ask about the nurse's role in caring for a rape victim, forms of crisis intervention, and typical crisis resolution timeframes. The second situation describes a nurse caring for patients with schizophrenia and psychosis. The remaining questions cover topics like client speech patterns, defense mechanisms, reasons for psychotropic medication, and characteristics of Alzheimer's dementia.

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    Situation - Rape is one of the most tragic things that could happen to

    anyone especially with young girls. Incidence such as these could develop
    into a crisis situation involving not only the rape victims but also their
    families.
    1. This type of crisis could be an example of which of the following?
    a. Combination of developmental and situational
    b. Situational
    c. Emotional
    d. Developmental

    2. Noemi, a staff nurse in the emergency room, realizes that she has an important
    role to play as a patient advocate to rape victims. To demonstrate this role, she
    takes note of one of the responsibilities?
    a. Since this is a legal case, call the press about the incidence of rape
    b. Perform thorough physical assessment and documenting objectively all the
    evidences of rape
    c. Ask the patient to stay in one isolated room first to provide privacy while
    attending to other patients
    d. Provide emotional support first and postponed physical assessment when patient
    is already calm

    3. Which of the following is a form of active, focused, emotional environmental first


    aid for patients in crisis?
    a. Attitude therapy
    b. Psychotherapy
    c. Crisis intervention
    d. Re-motivation technique

    4. Which of the following is true with regards to crisis?


    a. Crisis is self-limiting
    b. After crisis, the individual always return to a pre-crisis state or condition
    c. Crisis always result in adaptive behavior
    d. The person in crisis is not susceptible for any help

    5. If help is not provided in a crisis situation, an individual may spontaneously


    resolve in negatively or positively by returning to pre-crisis state, usually within
    which of the following duration?
    a. 2-3 weeks
    b. 3-4 weeks
    c. 1-2 weeks
    d. 4-6 weeks

    Situation - Nurse Medie has been encountering schizophrenic and different


    psychotic disorders.
    6. A male client who has delusions of persecution and auditory hallucination is admitted for
    psychiatric evaluation after stabbing a friend. Later a nurse on the unit greets the client by
    saying, "Good evening. How are you?" The client who has been referring to himself as
    "man," answers, "The man is bad." This is example of:
    a. Dissociation
    b. Transference
    c. Displacement
    d. Reaction formation

    7. A disturb client starts to repeat phrase that others have just said. This type of speech is
    known as:
    a. Autism
    b. Echolalia
    c. Neologism
    d. Echopraxia

    8. Projection, rationalization, denial, and distortion by hallucinations and delusions are


    examples of a disturbance in:
    a. Logic
    b. Association
    c. Reality testing
    d. The thought process

    9. The major reasons for treating severe emotional disorders with tranquilizers is to:
    a. Reduce the neurotic syndrome
    b. Prevent secondary complication
    c. Prevent destructiveness by the client
    d. Make the client more amenable to psychotherapy

    10. The nurse recognizes that dementia of the Alzheimer's type is characterized by :
    a. Aggressive acting out behavior
    b. Periodic remissions and exacerbations
    c. Hypoxia of selected areas of brain tissue
    d. Areas of brain destruction called senile plaques

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