Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder ( 30 Questions)
The correct answer is A, "The quality, intensity, range, and appropriateness of emotional expression." This choice reflects the comprehensive assessment of a patient's affect. The nurse should document aspects such as the quality (e.g., sad, angry, euphoric), intensity (e.g., blunted, intense), range (e.g., flat, labile), and appropriateness (e.g., congruent with the situation or not) of the patient's emotional expression.
"Signs of flat, blunted, labile, or incongruent affect" are important to assess, but this choice is not as comprehensive as choice A. It focuses solely on specific features of affect without addressing the full spectrum of emotional expression.
"The patient's thought content, such as themes, topics, and beliefs" is unrelated to assessing affect. Thought content pertains to the patient's cognitive processes and the content of their ideas, not their emotional expression.
"Signs of flight of ideas, racing thoughts, tangentiality" pertain to thought processes, particularly in the context of assessing thought disorders like in bipolar disorder's manic phase. This is not directly related to the assessment of emotional expression.
Choice A rationale:
The correct answer is A, "The quality, intensity, range, and appropriateness of emotional expression." This choice reflects the comprehensive assessment of a patient's affect. The nurse should document aspects such as the quality (e.g., sad, angry, euphoric), intensity (e.g., blunted, intense), range (e.g., flat, labile), and appropriateness (e.g., congruent with the situation or not) of the patient's emotional expression.
Choice B rationale:
"Signs of flat, blunted, labile, or incongruent affect" are important to assess, but this choice is not as comprehensive as choice A. It focuses solely on specific features of affect without addressing the full spectrum of emotional expression.
Choice C rationale:
"The patient's thought content, such as themes, topics, and beliefs" is unrelated to assessing affect. Thought content pertains to the patient's cognitive processes and the content of their ideas, not their emotional expression.
Choice D rationale:
"Signs of flight of ideas, racing thoughts, tangentiality" pertain to thought processes, particularly in the context of assessing thought disorders like in bipolar disorder's manic phase. This is not directly related to the assessment of emotional expression.