Gary is a psychiatricmental health nurse. He wants to decrease ...

[jc611]

Gary is a psychiatricmental health nurse. He wants to decrease frustration and potential anger among clients on the unit where he is working. Which of the following would aid in decreasing frustration and anger?
 
  A) Develop rules that prevent clients from opting out of activities.
  B) Allow appropriate access to phones, televisions, or rooms.
  C) Ensure clients comply with their medication regimens.
  D) Isolate clients who appear to be angry.

Question 2

The nurse on a psychiatric unit is giving an in-service about restraints to a new group of unlicensed assistive personnel. She tells them that the use of restraints has declined in recent years as a consequence of which of the following factors?
 
  A) Studies revealing no therapeutic benefit to their use
  B) Numbers of restraint-associated deaths, mostly in children and adolescents
  C) Insufficient staffing to monitor clients in restraints
  D) Federal legislation limiting the use of restraints to men between 18 and 45 years of age

[bfulkerson77]

Answer to Question 1

Ans: B
Feedback:
Examples of staff behavior that can contribute to frustration and anger in clients include rules that prevent clients from leaving activities, power disputes over medications, blocked access to phones, televisions, or rooms, denial of requests in general, physical restraint, ignoring clients, and ordering clients to do or not to do something. Rules, medication compliance and isolation are not actions that have the direct potential to reduce frustration and anger.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: B
Feedback:
Asphyxiation, sudden cardiac events, and suffocation frequently have been the outcome for restrained clients. In addition, an alarming number of deaths have been associated with restrain and seclusionmany of them occurring in children and adolescents.

[jc611]

YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

[laurnthompson]

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