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MERGERED HESI RN MENTAL HEALTH NEW FILE 2022/2023 ACTUAL EXAM LATEST UPDATE HESI RN MENTAL HEALTH V1 1. A client is Prescribed Risperidone (Risperdal) forschizophrenia. Which Side Effects Should the nurse report to the Health Provider? Fever, Tachycardia, Diopheris (sweathing) 2. A homel...

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MERGERED HESI RN
MENTAL HEALTH NEW
FILE 2022/2023 ACTUAL
EXAM LATEST UPDATE

, HESI RN MENTAL HEALTH V1

1. A client is Prescribed Risperidone (Risperdal) for schizophrenia. Which Side Effects
Should the nurse report to the Health Provider?
Fever, Tachycardia, Diopheris (sweathing)


2. A homeless women who is well-educated and has chronic schizophrenia is admitted to
the mental health unit when found by the police walking in the middle of the street. The
client presents with strong body odor, dirty clothes and avoliation. After a week of
neurolepticdrug therapy drug therapy, the client discusses with the nurse her thoughts
about bathing. Which statement suggest that the client is progressing?
I feel good when I take care of myself.
3. A young adult with eroded tooth enamel presents to the clinic with multiple complaints
including severe pain in the chest and upper abdomen that occurred when the client
induced vomiting after eating a large breakfast. The client also reports severe
hearthburn in the last week and describes a history of taking laxatives and eating prunes
whenever overeating. What client problem should address first?
Erosion of tooth enamel


4. A young adult male receives a prescription for disulfiram to help maintain abstinence
from alcohol. What information should the nurse include in a teaching plan for this
client?
Check labels of OTC drug for alcohol content


5. A older male resident of a long-term care facility who is chronically depressed. Has
become more reclusive and refuses to leave his room today. His family moved away from
a local area and they are unable to visit as much as they did in the past. Which comment
by the nurse is likely to be most helpful to this client?
May I sit with you for a while


6. The nurse develops a plan of care for a female client who scratches her wrist in attempt
to deal with anxiety. Which client outcome is most important to include in the plan of
care.
Demonstrates effective ways to cope with anxiety.

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Not sleeping for several days.

, 8. An adolescent male client is hospitalized after he threatened a teacher in school. He
admits feeling angry because his mother tricked him and brought him tp the hospital .
The client steates that when his mother visits, he plans to her his belonging from her,
but is not going to talk to her. Which activity is most important for the nurse to complete
before the mother arrives?
Discuss methods for clearly communicating


9. The charge nurse of the psychiatric unit observes clients in the day area. Which client is
exhibiting symptoms of a conversion disorder?
A young women who suddenly goes blind with no indication of organic pathology


10. A client diagnosed with schizophrenia looks frightened and tells the nurse. “ I keep
hearing the voices telling me to hurt somebody. Don’t you hear them? Which response
is the best for the nurse to provide?
I don’t hear the voices, but you seem very frightened


11. During admissions assessment to the mental health unit, a client reports that the people
at the office, where the client works, are antagonistic and the client is thinking of the
shooting the supervisor. The client asks the nurse not to revel this to anyone else. The
nurse immediately notifies the clients therapist and other team members of the client’s
thoughts. The therapist then calls the client’s supervisors and shares the client’s
thoughts about shooting the supervisors. what outcome is appropriate based on the
action of the nurses?
The nurse is reprimanded for divulging confidential patient information without
obtaining informed consent


12. When implementing a therapeutic on a psychiatric unit, which intervention is most
important for the nurse to implement.
Encourage client participation in planning weekly activities
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Keep The client NPO after midnight


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Observe the client in the Chair

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Acute confusion


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findings should be reported to the proper legal authorities


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Lorazepam (Ativan)


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?
Take other client in the area to the client lounge


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It sounds like this experience id frightening you.


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)?
Lorazepam (Ativan) 2mg IM.


21. A client with borderline personality disorder tells the nurse, "You are the best
nurse on the unit! The other nurses don't care about me the way you do." Which
response is best for the nurse to provide this client?

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