When working with a patient beginning treatment for alcohol ...

[Tirant22]

When working with a patient beginning treatment for alcohol dependence, what is the nurse's most therapeutic approach?
 
  a. Empathetic, supportive
  b. Strong, confrontational
  c. Skeptical, guarded
  d. Cool, distant

Question 2

The treatment team plans care for a person diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and cannabis abuse. The person has recently used cannabis daily and is experiencing increased hallucinations and delusions. Which principle applies to care planning?
 
  a. Consider each diagnosis primary and provide simultaneous treatment.
  b. The person will benefit from treatment in a residential treatment facility.
  c. Withdraw the person from cannabis, and then treat the symptoms of schizophrenia.
  d. Treat the schizophrenia first, and then establish the goals for the treatment of substance abuse.

[Kjones0604]

Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
Support and empathy assist the patient to feel safe enough to start looking at problems. Counseling during the early stage of treatment needs to be direct, open, and honest. The other approaches will increase patient anxiety and cause the patient to cling to defenses.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A
Dual diagnoses clinical practice guidelines for both outpatient and inpatient settings suggest that the substance disorder and the psychiatric disorder should both be considered primary and receive simultaneous treatments. Residential treatment may or may not be effective.

[Tirant22]

Excellent

[jamesnevil303]

TYSM