The Psychiatric Technician is caring for a patient suspected of having HIV. Which of the following diagnostic tests and laboratory values are used to confirm HIV infection? 

Which symptom should the Psychiatric Technician instruct a client to report immediately, if experienced following cataract removal surgery?

You are assigned to provide activities of daily living for a client admitted with a newly detached retina. The Psychiatric Technician should place the highest priority on which of the following? 

Mr. Bolds has recently had right eye surgery. It is important to educate the client regarding the following: 

Which of the following nursing diagnosis would the Psychiatric Technician assign the highest priority, when a client is experiencing an attack of Meniere’s disease? 

As a Psychiatric Technician, you know a hordeolum (stye) is inflammation of which structure of the eye? 

The unit supervisor is observing a new Psychiatric Technician graduate providing care to a client who is HIV positive. Which actions by the new graduate would require immediate interventions by the unit supervisor? 

You are the Psychiatric Technician in charge and you are responsible for educating the staff about the proper care of clients with spinal cord injury. Your education will include positioning a client with a spinal cord injury. Which technique is the best?

The Psychiatric Technician is admitting a client with protein-calorie malnutrition secondary to AIDS. Which intervention should be the Psychiatric Technician’s first intervention? 

A patient is receiving gabapentin (Neurontin), an anticonvulsant, but has no history of seizures. The nurse expects that the patient is receiving this drug as adjuvant therapy for which condition?