A patient diagnosed with schizophrenia is standing naked after showering and appears dazed and indecisive. The nursing intervention that will be most helpful to promote dressing would be:
a. saying, These are your clothes. Please get dressed..
b. saying, These are your underpants. I'll help you put them on..
c. asking, Which of these two outfits would you like to wear now?
d. asking, Is something the matter with your clothes that makes you not want to dress?
Question 2
A nurse states, I plan ways for patients assigned to me to participate in their own care and to be actively involved in all of the activities on the unit.. This approach demonstrates the concept of:
a. social accountability.
b. therapeutic community.
c. nurse-patient relationship.
d. multidisciplinary mental health team.
Measuring Patient Height
A nurse communicates with her non–English-speaking patient through an interpreter
Patient teaching: neck assessment
Patient Teaching Methods Cont.
The correct beginning position for the patient’s feet and crutches (tripod position).
Relative lifetime risk of schizophrenia