A Patient Is Admitted to a Psychiatric Unit with Severe

question 16

Multiple Choice

A patient is admitted to a psychiatric unit with severe depression and thoughts of suicide. The patient is placed on suicide precautions. When caring for this patient, the nurse recognizes that

• A) people who talk about harming themselves are at less risk.
• B) patients who verbalize or behaviorally demonstrate "a weight being lifted off the shoulders" are no longer at risk.
• C) once the acute crisis has subsided, the patient is no longer at risk.
• D) a major goal in evaluating suicidal risk is to assess for imminent danger of doing harm to self.

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Definitions:

Convex Preferences

A consumer preference pattern indicating a desire for mixed bundles of goods over extreme bundles, illustrating a preference for diversification.

Commodity Bundle

A specific collection of goods or services that is considered as a single unit for analytical purposes in microeconomics.

Convex Preferences

A characteristic of consumers' preferences indicating that they prefer mixes or combinations of goods over extreme amounts of either one, depicted by a convex shape in utility analysis.

Indifferent

Having no particular interest or sympathy; being unconcerned or neutral towards a specific outcome or item.