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karateprodigy

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A patient with mental illness was initially treated in an outpatient setting and then hospitalized for a week when the disorder became acute
 
  After discharge to a halfway house, this patient's care was managed by a community mental health nurse. Which inference applies to this community?
  a. Additional mental health services should be made available for the severely mentally ill.
  b. A seamless continuum of services is in place to serve persons with severe mental illness.
  c. Case management services should be expanded to care for acute as well as long-term system consumers.
  d. There are insufficient data to make a conclusion.

Question 2

During a one-on-one interaction with the nurse, a patient frequently looks nervously at the door. Select the best comment by the nurse to this nonverbal cue.
 
  a. I notice you keep looking toward the door.
  b. This is our time together. No one is going to interrupt us.
  c. It looks as if you are eager to end our discussion for today.
  d. If you are uncomfortable in this room, we can move someplace else.



tandmlomax84

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Answer to Question 1

B
Data are sufficient to suggest that a seamless continuum of service is in place, because the individual is able to move between continuum treatment sources and is given the services of a case manager to coordinate care. Data provided are insufficient to warrant any of the other assessments.

Answer to Question 2

A
Making observations and encouraging the patient to describe perceptions are useful therapeutic communication techniques for this situation. The other responses are assumptions made by the nurse.



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