A Guard Tells an Inmate Diagnosed with Schizophrenia to Ask

question 19

Multiple Choice

A guard tells an inmate diagnosed with schizophrenia to ask the desk officer for a mop and bucket, and then get some water from the shower area and mop the kitchen and hall. The inmate does not comply. The guard becomes angry and cancels the inmate's recreation time. Which action by the correctional nurse is most appropriate?

• A) Document the inmate's response as indicative of resistance and psychopathology.
• B) Do not intervene. Intervention is not part of a correctional nurse's scope of practice.
• C) Confer with the prison psychiatrist regarding re-evaluation of this inmate's antipsychotic medication regime.
• D) Explain to the guard that this inmate has difficulty following multiple-step instructions. Suggest stating one idea at a time.

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Definitions:

Contiguous Occurrences

Contiguous occurrences refer to events that happen in close proximity in terms of both time and space.

Contingent Occurrences

Events that happen dependent on certain conditions or situations, often in a causal relationship.

Neutral Stimulus

A neutral stimulus is initially unrelated and unresponsive to any specific response until it becomes associated with a conditioned stimulus in classical conditioning.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.