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Progress note states: 07/15/17 @ 1130: 28 year old white female admitted to unit with diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder and suicide attempt after cutting her right wrist. Right wrist dressing is dry and intact. Client states “ I don’t want to be here and I am not following your treatment plan or any of your rules. I’m going to tell everyone here not to follow the rules.”————————————————————–   M. Gaillard, RN,MSN Which statement, about the clients condition, is most accurate?

A depressed client states “I desperately want to get pregnant, but my husband is not so sure we should have children.” Which response by the nurse would be an example of therapeutic communication?

Match each description to the corresponding type of primary or secondary skin lesion.

Find the critical number of the function .

Find the open interval(s) on which is increasing or decreasing.

A mentally ill client has the right to refuse treatment to the extend permitted by law. It is important for the psychiatric nurse to be aware of this legal/ethical issue. Which situation would the nurse recognize as an example of this client right of refusal?

Find the extreme values of the function and where they occur.y = x3 – 12x + 2

A client has recently experienced a second trimester miscarriage and is feeling very depressed. Which therapeutic statement by the nurse coveys empathy? 

A college student, stuck in traffic, suddenly is lightheaded, tremulous, diaphoretic, and experiences tachycardia and dyspnea. A workup in an emergency department reveals no pathology. Which medical diagnosis should a nurse suspect, and what nursing diagnosis should be the nurse’s first priority?

A mentally ill client has the right to refuse treatment to the extend permitted by law. It is important for the psychiatric nurse to be aware of this legal/ethical issue. Which situation would the nurse recognize as an example of this client right of refusal?