A tornado destroyed a trailer park in a nearby community. As a mental health nursing member of the disaster team, which interventions would be among one's responsibilities? Select all that apply.
A) Providing information about social and mental health care agencies for follow-up services.
B) Serving food and coffee to the evacuees in the high school.
C) Assessing the safety of survivors' homes so they can return quickly to a sense of normalcy.
D) Helping survivors make telephone calls to locate relatives.
E) Encouraging the survivors and families to talk about their feelings of fear, panic, loss, and grief.
Question 2
A psychiatric nurse is providing an inservice to the Emergency Department staff on the topic of client interpersonal violence.
The nurse will instruct the ED staff that which client is most likely to seek help for injuries due to interpersonal violence? Select all that apply. A) A 52-year-old woman who lives alone
B) A 72-year-old with dementia cared for by her alcoholic son
C) A 42-year-old female who has undergone in vitro treatments and is pregnant for the first time
D) The only child of a middle-aged couple
E) A 16-year-old pregnant for the first time
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