Which remark by a nurse best represents an attempt to assess the ...

[dakota nelson]

Which remark by a nurse best represents an attempt to assess the patient's current ability to organize and enact a suicide wish?
 
  a. What is your educational background?
  b. What plan do you have for committing suicide?
  c. Have you ever thought about or tried to hurt yourself?
  d. Are your self-destructive thoughts constant or intermittent?

Question 2

The home health psychiatric nurse is working with a client with diabetes who is status post-myocardial infarction. The client states that he believes all that touchy-feely stuff like relaxation exercises is for the birds.
 
  The nurse explains that nonpharmacological interventions such as this work by: a. stimulating the sympathetic nervous system to respond to release stress hormones
  b. blocking the stress receptors in the heart and intestinal tissue
  c. erasing the thoughts and images connected to the stressful situation
  d. permitting the parasympathetic system to exert a calming influence during stressful situations

[Cheesycrackers]

Answer to Question 1

B
This question will give the nurse information as to whether a plan exists, the lethality of the method chosen, and the accessibility of the method.

Answer to Question 2

D
Nonpharmacological interventions such as hypnosis, imagery, relaxation, and music therapy allow the parasympathetic system to exert a calming influence during stressful situations. This can be understood through the concept of mind modulation. As an example, the nurse could relate to the client's own experiences in which listening to calming music or thinking of an especially pleasant memory physically relaxed the client.

[dakota nelson]

Thank you

[Cheesycrackers]

No problemo