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jon_i · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

The family of a suicidal client is very supportive and requests more facts related to caring for their family member after discharge. Which information should the nurse provide?

A. Address only serious suicide threats to avoid the possibility of secondary gain.
B. Promote trust by verbalizing a promise to keep suicide attempt information within the family.
C. Offer a private environment to provide needed time alone at least once a day.
D. Be available to actively listen, support, and accept feelings.

Question 2

During hospitalization, an attention-seeking client has repeatedly cut herself. After threatening to cut herself again, the nurse states, Here are some Band-Aids so you won't bleed on the sheets.

Which is the underlying reason for this nurse's response? A. The nurse is using an aversive stimulus in response to the client's manipulative cutting behavior.
B. The nurse is using negative reinforcement in response to the client's behavior.
C. The nurse is minimizing reinforcement of the client's manipulative behavior with the goal of extinction.
D. The nurse lacks empathy for the client's recurring self-injurious behavior.

kilada · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

D
Being available to actively listen, support, and accept feelings increases the potential that a client would confide suicidal ideations to family members.

Answer to Question 2

C
Extinction is the gradual decrease in frequency or disappearance of a response when a positive reinforcement is withheld. The nurse is withholding attention to the client who is exhibiting manipulative, attention-seeking behavior. The lack of positive response (attention) should cause extinction of the undesired behavior.