The nurse is assessing a client diagnosed with schizophrenia who has poor personal hygiene, loss of motivation, anhedonia, and catatonia. Which assessment finding would the nurse regard as a positive symptom of schizophrenia?

The nurse enters the room of a client recently admitted to the hospital for anorexia nervosa. The nurse finds the client in the middle of performing rigorous exercises. Which action by the nurse is priority?

A nurse uses Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to plan for a client with mental illness.  Which problem will receive priority?

A client who has attempted suicide by overdosing with a very large number of antidepressant pills has been admitted to the psychiatric unit. Which action by the nurse is priority?

Which assessment questions are most appropriate for the nurse to ask a client with possible obsessive-compulsive disorder? (Select all that apply.)

The nurse is caring for a client, injured in a fall while intoxicated, who believes spiders are spinning entrapping webs in the room. The client is anxious, agitated, and diaphoretic. Which action by the nurse is priority?

A child diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is going to begin medication therapy. The nurse should plan to teach the family about which classification of medications?

The nurse is talking with a client who is taking amitriptyline that reports constipation and dry mouth. Which instruction will the nurse give?

Name the vessel entering the atrium  

Name this opening into the Right atrium from the venus coronary circulation