Mental Health Nursing Exam 1 - Jersey College Exam Study Guide
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Jersey College
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Jersey College
Mental Health Nursing Exam 1 - Jersey
College Exam Study Guide
at the same time each evening - Answer️️ -A client's medication
sheet contains a prescription for Sertraline (Zoloft). To ensure safe
administration of the med, how should the nurse administer the
drug?
crackers and tossed sal...
Mental Health Nursing Exam 1 - Jersey
College Exam Study Guide
at the same time each evening - Answer✔️✔️-A client's medication
sheet contains a prescription for Sertraline (Zoloft). To ensure safe
administration of the med, how should the nurse administer the
drug?
crackers and tossed salad - Answer✔️✔️-A hospitalized client is
started on phenalzine for the tx of depression. The nurse should
instruct the client that which foods are acceptable to consume while
taking this medication? SATA
-figs
-yogurt
-crackers
-aged cheese
-tossed salad
-oatmeal raisin cookies
white blood cell count - Answer✔️✔️-A client with schizophrenia has
been started on medication therapy with clozapine. The nurse
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should assess the results of which laboratory study to monitor for
adverse effects from this medication?
avoid alcohol while taking this medication - Answer✔️✔️-A client is
scheduled for discharge and will be taking phenobarbital for an
extended period. The nurse would place the highest priority on
teaching the client which point that directly relates to client safety?
constipation - Answer✔️✔️-Side effect of oxazepam:
get up slowly when changing positions
avoid sunlight
2nd generation/atypical anti-psychotic - Answer✔️✔️-Discharge
instructions for a patient taking risperidone?
2-3 weeks
TCA - trycyclic antidepressant - Answer✔️✔️-The nurse is teaching a
client who is being started on imipramine about the medication.
The nurse should inform the client to expect maximum desired
effects at which time period following initiation of the medication?
tardive dyskinesia - Answer✔️✔️-The nurse notes that the client with
schizophrenia and receiving an antipsychotic medication is moving
her mouth, protruding her tongue, and grimacing as she watches
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television. The nurse determines that the client is experiencing
which medication complication?
GI dysfunction
CNS dysfunction
Sleeplessness and/or drowsiness during day
SSRI - Answer✔️✔️-The nurse is performing a follow up teaching
session with a client discharged one month ago. The client is taking
fluoxetine (Prozac). Which information would be important for the
nurse to obtain during this client visit regarding the side and
adverse effects of this medication?
rapid heartbeat or anxiety - Answer✔️✔️-A client who has been
taking busprione for 1 month returns to the clinic for a follow up
assessment. The nurse determines that the medication is effective if
the absence of which manifestation has occurred?
toxic - Answer✔️✔️-A client taking lithium reports vomiting,
abdominal pain, diarrhea, blurred vision, tinnitus, and tremors.
The lithium level is 2.5 mEq/L. The nurse plans the care based on
which representation of this level?
< 0.4 to 1 mEq/L - Answer✔️✔️-Therapeutic level of lithium?
frequent hand washing with hot, soapy water.
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