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NCLEX-PN Exam Questions - Part 40

Jenny Clarke

Sat, 25 Jan 2025

1. Social support systems include of the following except:

A) call-in help lines.
B) emotional assistance provided by others.
C) community support groups.
D) use of coping skills and verbalization for anger management.



2. Support-system enhancement includes all of the following except:

A) determining the barriers to using support systems.
B) discussing ways to help with others who are concerned.
C) exploring life problems of the support-team members.
D) involving spouse, family, and friends in the care and planning.



3. Using clichés in therapeutic communication leads the client toward:

A) viewing the nurse as human.
B) accepting himself as human.
C) self-disclosing.
D) feeling discounted.



4. In performing a psychosocial assessment, the nurse begins by asking questions that encourage the client to describe problematic behaviors and situations. The next step is to elicit the clients:

A) feelings about what has been described.
B) thoughts about what has been described.
C) possible solutions to the problem.
D) intent in sharing the description.



5. The most effective nursing strategy to assist a client in recognizing and using personal strength includes:

A) encouraging the client - s self-identification of strengths.
B) promoting the client - s active external thinking.
C) listening to the client and providing advice as needed.
D) assisting the client in maintaining an external locus of control.



1. Right Answer: D
Explanation: Use of coping skills and verbalization for anger management are personal strategies, not examples of social support systems. Choices 1, 2, and 3 are all social support systems. Psychosocial Integrity

2. Right Answer: C
Explanation: The exploration of life problems of support-team members is not necessary to enhance the support system. Choices 1, 2, and 4 are all enhancements for a support system. Psychosocial Integrity

3. Right Answer: D
Explanation: The use of clichs in therapeutic communication is commonly construed by the client as the nurses lack of understanding, involvement, and caring, so the client might feel demeaned and discounted. Psychosocial Integrity

4. Right Answer: B
Explanation: Questions should be asked in a precise order (specifically, from the most-simple description to the more difficult disclosure of feelings). When the problems have been described, eliciting the clients thoughts about the dilemmas provides further assessment data as well as the clients interpretation of what has happened.Feelings, solutions and articulating intent are more complex processes. Psychosocial Integrity

5. Right Answer: A
Explanation: Encouraging the client to identify his own strengths is the most effective strategy. Psychosocial Integrity

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