Practice Question
The nurse has established a therapeutic relationship with a client. The client is beginning to share feelings openly with the nurse. The relationship has entered which phase according to Peplau's theory?
Answer Choices:
Correct Answer:
identification
Rationale:
💠 Peplau’s Phases: The four stages are orientation, identification, exploitation, and resolution.
💠 Identification Phase: Begins when the client recognizes the nurse as someone who can help and starts expressing feelings openly.
💠 Therapeutic Progress: The client feels understood, building trust and emotional safety within the relationship.
💠 Nurse’s Role: Encourage verbalization, active listening, and promote client participation in planning care.
💠 Outcome: The nurse-client relationship deepens, marking mutual understanding and emotional sharing.
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This question is from NU400 MENTAL HEALTH NURSING which contains 49 questions.
More Questions from This Exam
Which of the following is true regarding mental health and mental illness?
Answer Choices:
A. In most cases, mental health is a state of emotional, psychological, and social wellness evidenced by satisfying interpersonal relationships, effective behavior and coping, positive self-concept, and emotional stability.
B. Behavior that may be viewed as acceptable in one culture is always unacceptable in other cultures.
C. Persons who engage in fantasies are mentally ill.
D. It is easy to determine if a person is mentally healthy or mentally ill.
What is meant by the term "revolving door effect" in mental health care?
Answer Choices:
A. An overall reduction in incidence of severe mental illness.
B. Flexible treatment settings for mentally ill.
C. Most effective and least expensive treatment settings.
D. Shorter and more frequent hospital stays for persons with severe and persistent mental illness.
Which of the following statements made by the nurse to the client's family is true of the treatment of people with mental illness in the United States today?
Answer Choices:
A. "Only one in four people needing mental health services are receiving those services."
B. "Substance abuse is effectively treated with brief hospitalization."
C. "Emergency department visits by persons who are acutely disturbed are declining."
D. "Financial resources are reallocated from state hospitals to community programs and support."
The appropriate action for a student nurse who says the wrong thing is to?
Answer Choices:
A. ignore the error, since no one is perfect.
B. state that it was a joke.
C. restate it by saying, "That didn't come out right. What I meant was ... "
D. pretend that they did not say it.
A teenage client defies the nurse's repeated requests to turn off the video game and go to sleep. The teen says angrily, "You sound just like my mother at home!" and continues to play the video game. The nurse understands that this statement likely indicates:
Answer Choices:
A. the need for stricter discipline at home.
B. an expression of developing autonomy.
C. the presence of transference.
D. early signs of oppositional defiant disorder.
Question Details
- Category: RN Nursing Exam(s)
- Subcategory: General Exams
- Domain: 🧠Mental Health©
- Answer Choices: 4
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