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magmichele12 · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

A generalist psychiatric nurse works with his client to uncover a past abuse that the nurse learned about from the client's mother, not from the client. Which of the following best describes this nurse's intervention?

A) The generalist is working outside his scope of practice and should not be doing this intervention.
B) The generalist is concerned about the client and is implementing a treatment of choice in this situation.
C) The generalist should have ignored the data he received from the client's mother because it has no relation to the current hospitalization.
D) The generalist is operating under the concept of beneficence.

Question 2

The nurse is providing care for a 9-year-old boy whose family was just involved in a motor vehicle accident in which his father and brother died.

The nurse should anticipate that the child is likely to exhibit which of the following responses when he learns these details?

A) Resignation
B) Denial
C) Rage
D) Confusion

jesse.fleming · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans: A
Psychotherapy that is designed to uncover repressed, past events is within the scope of practice of the advanced practice nurse, who has received training in this technique. It is not within the scope of the generalist psychiatricmental health nurse and, therefore, should be avoided.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: B
Like adults, every child or adolescent is an individual with individualized responses to crises. However, it is natural for a child or adolescent to first experience denial that the crisis situation really happened.