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You are helping with breakfast service in the dining room.  A resident begins screaming and hitting her food stating, “There are bugs on my eggs.  Bugs!  Get them off.”  You approach her to see that someone sprinkled pepper on her eggs.  An appropriate response is:

Pharmacological treatment of delirium is most likely to include which medication? 

Your patient is on donepezil (Aricept).  This tells you your patient has which disorder? 

An appropriate goal for a patient who is on behavior modification for anorexia nervosa is:

Which of the following is a positive sign of schizophrenia? 

A girl with suicidal thoughts would be most likely to have which symptoms (select all that apply)?

The LPN/LVN cares for a client diagnosed with anorexia nervosa.  What will the LPN/LVN expect to find?

Your patient with advanced Alzheimer’s disease keeps searching the unit for her mother who died many years ago.  How should you respond? 

How should you address Phil Collins, the newly admitted elderly patient, to your mental health unit?

An elderly patient has aphasia from a cerebrovascular accident (CVA).  Which need is priority?