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Chapter 8- Continuum of Care
Complete Chapter Questions With Answers
Sample Questions Are Posted Below
| 1. | Which of the following differentiates community mental health from inpatient mental health care and is a primary goal of community mental health care? | |
| A) | Emphasize crisis intervention and stabilize clients receiving psychotropic medications. | |
| B) | Enlist citizen participation to determine need, policy changes, and evolution of mental health programs. | |
| C) | Provide appropriate care for citizens of all ages in the least restrictive settings. | |
| D) | Place chronically ill clients in comfortable family-like settings. | |
| Ans: | B | |
| Feedback: | ||
| The primary goal of community mental health care is to place the center of care into the hands of community members and elicit citizen participation in mental health care. | ||
| 2. | Case management has been proposed as a cost-effective model of psychiatric care for mentally ill clients. Which of the following describe(s) the focus of case management? | |
| A) | Return to the practice of institutionalizing chronically ill clients | |
| B) | Short-term inpatient, crisis stabilization, and community referral | |
| C) | Increased use of psychotropic medication to stabilize psychotic behavior quickly | |
| D) | Infrequent use of partial hospitalization and increased use of inpatient treatment | |
| Ans: | B | |
| Feedback: | ||
| Case management is the coordination of the range of available services by a case manager, with the goal of crisis stabilization and maintenance of the client within the community. | ||
| 3. | When conducting discharge teaching for a client who is being discharged from an acute psychiatric hospital, the nurse describes which of the following services provided by the local community mental health center (CMHC)? | |
| A) | Medication, crisis intervention, vocational training, and social skills training | |
| B) | Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and biofeedback training | |
| C) | Residential care for long-term mentally ill elders | |
| D) | Minor surgical procedures, first aid, diagnostic X-rays, and lab studies | |
| Ans: | A | |
| Feedback: | ||
| ECT, long-term care, and surgical procedures are not provided in a CMHC. The activities listed in the correct answer are provided within CMHCs. | ||
| 4. | Crisis intervention, prevention of unnecessary hospitalizations, and reduced dependence on institutional care are goals of which of the following community mental health services? | |
| A) | Psychiatric emergency care | |
| B) | Day treatment and partial hospitalization | |
| C) | Residential programs | |
| D) | Psychiatric home care | |
| Ans: | D | |
| Feedback: | ||
| The goal of psychiatric home care is to reduce dependence on hospitalization as a treatment modality through crisis intervention and closely monitoring the client who is living in the community. | ||
| 5. | Which of the following clients is suitable for psychiatric home care services? | |
| A) | Paralyzed Vietnam veteran who is experiencing increasing respiratory difficulties and chronic infections | |
| B) | Schizophrenic woman found living under the freeway | |
| C) | Adolescent with conduct disorder who took an overdose of Xanax (alprazolam) | |
| D) | Homebound individual with bipolar illness who is exhibiting manic symptoms | |
| Ans: | D | |
| Feedback: | ||
| The wrong answers would be inappropriate clients to receive home care due to the acuity of their situations, except for the woman who is homeless. A homebound individual with bipolar illness who is having subacute symptoms would be the perfect candidate for home care services. | ||
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