A nurse set limits while interacting with a client demonstrating behaviors associated with borderline personality disorder. The client tells the nurse, “You used to care about me. O thought you were wonderful. Now I can see I was wrong. You’re evil.” This outburst can be documented using what term?

A client who was responding to auditory hallucinations earlier in the morning now approaches the nurse shaking a fist and shout, “Back off!” and then goes to the dayroom. While following the client into the dayroom, the nurse should take what precautions? 

Social validity assessments are most often accomplished by utilizing what type of assessment?

The nurse administers a medication that potentiates the action of a-aminobutyric acid (GABA). Which effect would be expected? 

What is the most critical question for the nurse to ask an adolescent who had threatened to take an overdose of pills?

Iliana is the behaver. When Iliana burps in Ms. Aberdeen’s class, she becomes very agitated and yells at Iliana about burping. Iliana continues to burp in Ms. Aberdeen’s classroom every day. What is the function-altering effect of the consequence?

When Rivero calls his sister an unkind name, Rivero’s dad immediately places him in his room for a time-out. Rivero invites two friends over to play video games at his house. Rivero does not call his sister unkind names while his friends are at his house. This is an example of an:

During which stage of syphilis does gumma occur?

Savion saw a black-haired woman with a seashell necklace walking a few feet ahead of him. He called out, “Hey, Becca!” The woman turned around but was not his friend Becca. This is an example of:

A resident has diabetes.  Which of the following sets of symptoms should the nursing assistant expect to be associated with this condition?