A family member asks the nurse what the worst consequences of overdosing on valproate (Depakote) would be. The family member worries that the client has overdosed on medications in the past. What is the correct nursing response?
A) Stevens-Johnson syndrome
B) Severe coma and death
C) Headache for several hours
D) Insomnia
Question 2
The psychiatric-mental health nurse attends a presentation on various theories of mental disorders. Which comment by the psychiatric nurse indicates an understanding of intrapersonal theories of personality development?
A) Personality is manifested only in a person's interactions with another person or group..
B) Personality is more strongly shaped by events occurring in the earliest years of life than by those
occurring later..
C) Every human's personality is genetically driven and individually developed..
D) People become who they are through a learning process using reinforcements and punishments..
Entry level nurse competencies
Nurse's hand over patients abdomen
For kinship analyses buccal swabs from close family are taken for comparison.
Example of a family genogram with accompanying legend (symbols used in genograms).
Typical life cycle of the tick family.
The family described in Example Case 2