Which Nursing Intervention Is Vital to the Effective Management of a Psychiatric

question 20

Multiple Choice

Which nursing intervention is vital to the effective management of a psychiatric emergency resulting from a patient's experience of extreme despair?

• A) Suicide precautions
• B) Introduction to a support group
• C) Introducing new coping mechanisms
• D) Assessment for obsessive-compulsive rituals

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Definitions:

Outliers

Outliers are data points that are significantly different from the majority of a data set, often lying far outside the other values.

Variance

A statistic used in statistics to measure how far a set of numbers are spread out from their average value.

Negative Deviations

Differences where observed values fall below the expected or average values in a data set.

Negatively Skewed

A distribution that is skewed to the left, indicating that the tail on the left side is longer or fatter than the right side.