The nursing intervention that constitutes false imprisonment is:
a. The client is confused and combative. He insists that no one can stop him from
leaving. The nurse restrains him without a physician's order, then seeks the order.
b. The client has been pesky, seeking the attention of nurses in the nurses' station
much of the day. Now the nurse escorts him to his room and tells him to stay
there or he'll be put into seclusion.
c. A psychotic client, admitted as an involuntary patient, runs out of the psychiatric
unit. The nurse runs after him and succeeds in talking the client into returning to
the unit.
d. A client, hospitalized as an involuntary admission, attempts to leave the unit. The
nurse calls the security team and, acting on established protocol, they prevent him
from leaving.
Question 2
The priority intervention for the nurse working with a client with schizotypal personality disorder is
a. respecting client need for social isolation.
b. teaching the client not to dress oddly.
c. preventing the client from violating the nurse's rights.
d. keeping emotional distance so as not to be exploited.
