A nurse is interviewing a client with schizophrenia. During the interview the client states, My mother went to state college, but that pimple on your cheek must hurt when they cut the lights off at nine at night for lights out..
The nurse knows this is an instance of: A) Attention impairment.
B) Concrete thinking.
C) Loose associations.
D) Memory deficits.
Question 2
The relative of a chronically mentally ill woman requests that the mentally ill woman be committed because of her history of 12 previous hospitalizations and because she sits around the house all day refusing to get dressed.
The nurse tells the relative that the woman cannot be committed because: A) There is no evidence that she is a danger to self or others.
B) She has used up her hospital coverage.
C) It is less than 2 weeks since her most recent hospital discharge.
D) She has not voluntarily requested hospitalization.
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Medical assistant interviewing a patient.
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