When providing discharge teaching to a client for whom English is a second language, which therapeutic skill technique will the nurse use to assist with assessing the client’s patient’s understanding of the information being shared verbally?                                 

The client diagnosed with schizophrenia is being discharged and needs education about prescribed medications. Since the client is taking Clozapine (Clozaril), the nurse teaches the client to IMMEDIATELY notify the physician if they experience which of the following?    

Due to government reallocation of funds and hospital closures, many hospitalized clients with mental illness were discharged into society without the necessary community resources in place. What is a result of this deinstitutionalization of these clients diagnosed with mental illness?

The nurse assesses a client to be at the Well end of the Mental Health/Illness Continuum. Which statement by the client would support this assessment?               

Treatment for Bipolar Disorder involves a lifetime regimen of medications; consisting of an antidepressant in combination with an antimanic or anticonvulsant medication. Medication education for the patient who is newly prescribed Lithium Carbonate (Lithobid) would consist of which of the following?  

A client diagnosed with schizophrenia exhibits the positive symptom of echopraxia.  What observation by the nurse supports this finding?

Your diabetic patient is non-responsive with a blood glucose reading of 46. You have a syringe of 50% dextrose and you are wanting to give 25 grams. What volume in mL of the solution do you give the patient?

List the two most common causes of CKD (1 point each)

Your patient is receiving a heparin drip at 30 ml/hr. The IV bag has a concentration of 25,000 units per 500 ml. How many UNITS of heparin is the patient receiving each hour?

List the three excretory functions of the kidney