A psychiatric inpatient who is trying to make discharge plans ...

[lidoalex]

A psychiatric inpatient who is trying to make discharge plans asks a nurse to explain the difference between personal care homes and board-and-care homes. The nurse's best answer would be:
 
  A) Board-and-care homes provide more individualized attention and are licensed.
  B) Personal care homes serve fewer clients and provide more individualized attention.
  C) Board-and-care homes house less than a dozen clients and do not have to be licensed.
  D) They are essentially the same and neither type of facility has to be licensed.

Question 2

Crack cocaine abusers may require hospitalization during withdrawal because of the psychological severity of which of the following?
 
  a. postintoxication crash
  b. social isolation
  c. associated guilt
  d. lack of motivation

[dmurph1496]

Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

A
Most clients with crack dependency need inpatient care because of both the intensity of drug cravings that crack provides and the severity of the postintoxication psychological crash that occurs during withdrawal. Day hospitalization is another alternative that offers many of the advantages of inpatient treatment at lower costs.