A 23-year-old borderline client is admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit following an impulsive act of self-
mutilation. A few hours after admission, she requests special privileges, and when these are not granted, she
stands up and angrily shouts that the people on the unit do not care, and she storms across the room. The
nurse should respond to this behavior by

A 4-year-old child has Down syndrome. The community health nurse has coordinated a special preschool program. The nurse’s primary goal is to:

A 16-year-old client with a diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder is threatening violence toward another child. In managing a potentially violent client, the nurse: 

Assessment of a newborn for Apgar scoring includes observation for:

In performing the initial nursing assessment on a client at the prenatal clinic, the nurse will know that which of the following alterations is abnormal during pregnancy?