An experienced nurse is assigned to care for a client with severe depression and suicidal ideation,
a client with bipolar disorder who is demonstrating hypomanic behaviors, and a newly admitted client with paranoid schizophrenia who is delusional and must have a physical examination and initial nursing assessment performed. The nurse sets priorities for interventions and maps out a schedule for the day. What challenge is the nurse most likely to experience?
1. Experiencing rewards
2. Dealing with fear of clients
3. Avoiding evaluative responses
4. Practicing dynamic prioritization
Question 2
The student nurse has attempted to meet the challenge of emphasizing client strengths while working with a client with the nursing diagnosis Chronic low self-esteem. The nurse can evaluate her efforts as partially successful when the client:
1. Seeks the student nurse's advice about divorce
2. Asks the student nurse whether she is getting better
3. Identifies her own strengths
4. Stops crying at each session
The nurse uses a noninvasive bladder ultrasound to measure the client’s bladder volume.
Depression Assessment
A partnership between the patient and the health care provider.
Client and therapist positioning for foot reflexology.
Testing the client’s ability to feel vibrations, the toe
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