Chapter 10, The Interview and Assessment Process

Question Answered step-by-step Chapter 10, The Interview and Assessment Process Discussion TopicsLearning Objective1. You have been asked to conduct an interview for a psychiatric-mental health client. What part of conducting an interview to obtain psychosocial data on a client is most difficult for you?What part of conducting an interview to obtain psychosocial data on a client is relatively easy for you?What are your strengths as an interviewer and what skills do you need to develop?1, 22. You are working at a psychiatric-mental health facility that uses the PERSONS acronym for collecting data in the initial patient assessment.Choose one of the letters of this acronym and explain the data that would be collected under that letter.For your chosen area, list five questions that you would ask to elicit information from a psychiatric-mental health client.23. The nurse is caring for a 39-year-old American Indian psychiatric mental health client.What is the importance of assessing cultural needs in a psychiatric-mental health client?What is the importance of assessing spiritual needs in a psychiatric-mental health client?44.  Your nursing instructor lectured on standardized tools in class today.  You took good notes and you are attempting to explain these tools for a fellow nursing student who was sick and missed class.What are some of the standardized tools your instructor discussed? Which healthcare professional would use the tools discussed?  What are the tools used for?Why do healthcare professionals use standardized tools?3  Health Science Science Nursing NURSING RN INTRODUCTI Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)