ATI MENTAL HEALTH A 2023/2024 PROCTORED EXAM 70 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS HIGHLITED STUDY GUIDE

ATI MENTAL HEALTH A 2023/2024 PROCTORED EXAM 70 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS HIGHLITED STUDY GUIDE
1. A nurse is planning overall strategies to address problems for a client who
has borderline personality disorder. Which of the following strategies is the
priority for the nurse to incorporate in the plan of care?
a. discuss the appropriate use of assertive behavior with the client
b. encourage the client to attend weekly support group meetings
c. assist the client to maintain awareness of her thoughts and feelings
d. implement measures to prevent intentional self-inflicted injury
2) A nurse is admitting a client who has generalized anxiety disorder. Which
of the following actions should the nurse plan to take first?
a. Provide the client with a quiet environment
b. Determine how the client handles stress.
c. Teach the client to use guided imagery.
d. Ask the client to identify her strengths
3) A nurse is conducting an admission interview with a client who is
experiencing mania. Which of the following should the nurse report to the
provider?
a. States that he hasn’t bathed in 2 days
b. Reports eating twice in the past two weeks.
c. Makes inappropriate sexual comments.
d. Speaks in rhyming sentences.
4) A nurse is planning care for a client who has obsessive-compulsive
disorder. Which of the following recommendation should the nurse include in
the clients plan of care?
a. Validation therapy
b. Thought stopping
c. Operant conditioning
d. Reality orientation therapy
5) A nurse is caring for a client who has bipolar disorder and is experiencing
a manic episode. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?
a. Encourage the client to join group activities
b. Dim the lights in the client’s room
c. Provide detailed explanations to the client
d. Administer methylphenidate
6) A nurse is leading a crisis intervention group for adolescents who
witnessed the suicide of a classmate. Which of the following actions should
the nurse take first?
a. Initiate referrals
b. Review community resources
c. Identify prior coping skills
d. Discuss the importance of confidentiality
7) A nurse overhears a client saying"I am a spy, a spy for the FBI .I am an
I,an eye for an eye in the sky. Sky is up high." The nurse should document
the client’s statement as which of the following speech alterations?
a. Echolalia
b. Word salad
c. Neologism
d. Clang association
8) An older adult client is brought to the mental health clinic by her daughter.
The daughter reports that her mother is not eating and seems uninterested
in routine activities. The daughter states "Im so worried that my mother is
depressed" which of the following responses should the nurse make?
a. Everyone gets depressed from time to time.
b. You shouldnt worry about this because depressive disorder is easily
treated.
c. Older adults are usually diagnosed with depressive disorder as they
age.
d. Tell me the reasons you