12 Behavioral Health Settings and Integrated Nursing Care Online Quiz Questions

Choose inpatient care whenever a patient prefers it, regardless of current needs.

Choose inpatient care when needs cannot be safely or effectively managed in a less intensive setting.

Choose outpatient care whenever the patient has community supports.

Choose residential care whenever the patient has a physical health need.

Explain the purpose, ask what would help the patient feel safer, and offer space when safe.

Approach without explanation so the patient is not given time to become more distressed.

Insist the patient follow instructions before discussing their concerns.

Avoid asking the patient what they prefer because staff should make all decisions.

Give the patient a list of possible clinicians and end the encounter.

Send a referral without confirming that the receiving service has the information it needs.

Introduce the patient directly to the receiving clinician or team and involve the patient in the exchange.

Ask the patient to repeat their history to the receiving clinician without sharing any relevant information.

Confirm that the patient has memorized every detail of the inpatient treatment plan.

Contact the patient to review health status, medicines, appointments, services, and how to respond to problems.

Ask the patient to arrange all follow-up without checking whether barriers exist.

Use the contact only to repeat the discharge date.

Review the patient’s goals, strengths, warning signs, and preferred coping strategies.

Make a plan without involving the patient or chosen supports, even when appropriate and with consent.

Review follow-up appointments and how to access care if an appointment is missed.

Address medication instructions and practical needs such as transportation or housing.

Communicate the current situation and relevant history.

Include the patient’s response to treatment and any uncertainties.

Omit unresolved concerns so the receiving team can make an independent assessment.

State next steps and relevant contingency plans.

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Approach without explanation and insist that the patient answer questions immediately.

Explain why you are approaching, ask what would help the patient feel safer, and offer space if it is safe to do so.

Tell the patient that their distress is unnecessary and direct them to follow instructions.

Ask another staff member to hold the patient in place while you begin the assessment.

Use community crisis services instead of assessing immediate safety or medical needs.

Avoid community crisis services because they cannot support stabilization.

Consider community crisis response when clinically appropriate, while assessing immediate safety and medical needs and arranging higher-level care if indicated.

Refer every person in crisis directly for inpatient admission, regardless of current needs.

Collaborate on the least restrictive setting that can safely meet the person’s current needs, then reassess as circumstances change.

Choose the most intensive available setting so the person receives the greatest amount of monitoring.

Keep the person in the setting they first entered, even if their needs or safety change.

Select a setting based mainly on which one is easiest for the care team to arrange.

Give the patient a phone number for the receiving clinic and end the encounter.

Send the referral after discharge without checking whether the receiving service has the necessary information.

Ask the patient to explain their history again at the next appointment without communicating with the receiving team.

Introduce the patient directly to the receiving clinician or team and involve the patient in the exchange.