Which of the following client behaviors should suggest to the nurse that a client needs interven-tion and treatment? The individual who:
1. Shoplifts and is arrested and jailed
2. Loses a clerical position, then volunteers in a social agency to maintain skills
3. Loses his wife in an accident and resumes his usual activities within a week
4. Is depressed and unable to work or assume family responsibilities
Question 2
A layperson states, With all the new information about psychiatric disorders, the need for psy-chiatric nurses will be drastically reduced. The response by the nurse that shows the best under-standing of current patterns of psychiatric disease burden is
1. You make an excellent point about needing fewer psychiatric nurses.
2. My understanding indicates that the need for psychiatric nurses will remain sta-ble.
3. Disability from mental illness has been seriously overestimated in the past few years.
4. The current number of psychiatric nurses is projected to be insufficient to meet future needs.
NUrse
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