PSYCHIATRIC NURSING OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTION AND ANSWERS

1. Which of the following is not true of dementia?
a. Patients can have hallucinations.
b. People with dementia act uncooperative to be spiteful.
c. People with dementia are often frightened and anxious.
d. Grooming is difficult for patients with dementia.

Answer: b. People with dementia act uncooperative to be spiteful.

2.A patient tells a nurses’ aide that the foods on her tray conflict with her religious beliefs. The nurses’ assistant should:
a. tell the patient that it is all that is available.
b. leave the tray there in case she changes her mind.
c. take the tray away and notify the charge nurse.

d. check the patient’s religious preference on the chart.

Answer: c. take the tray away and notify the charge nurse.

3. A patient who is on suicide watch should be allowed to have:
a. a glass container of flowers in her room.
b. a leather belt.
c. a mirror.
d. pictures of her family in an album.

Answer: b. a leather belt.

4. There is an order to give the patient a shower, but she refuses. The nurses’ assistant should:
a. document in the chart that the patient refused to shower.
b. tell her that she must do what is ordered
c. take the patient to the shower anyway.
d. threaten to use restraints if she does not cooperate.

Answer: a. document in the chart that the patient refused to shower.

5. After the end of the shift some nurses’ aides go to a restaurant.
Acceptable topics of conversation would include:
a. their patients.
b. procedures that others in the restaurant might not want to hearabout.
c. hospital politics.
d. the weather.

Answer: d. the weather.