VATI Mental Health Assessment 2019

1. A nurse is planning care for a client following a suicide attempt.  Provide the client with plastic eating utensils 2. A nurse is performing an admission assessment for a client who appears withdrawn and fearful.  Inform the client that this admission is confidential 3. A nurse is caring for an adolescent client who has anorexia nervosa.  “You’re afraid you have caused physical injury to yourself? 4. A nurse is caring for a client following a fire that destroyed her home and killed on of her children.  Have you thought of harming yourself? 5. A nurse is checking laboratory values for a hospitalized young adult client who has bipolar disorder and is taking lithium.  Serum creatinine 2.1 6. A nurse is providing information to a client who is seeking voluntary admission to a mental health facility.  You will still need to give informed consent for treatments after admission 7. A nurse is developing a plan of care for an adolescent client who has conduct disorder.  Initiate a behavioral contract with the client 8. A hospice nurse is talking with the family of a client who recently died from cancer following a series of chemotherapy treatments.  Displacement