The nurse is planning a presentation to a group of nursing students on the topic of anxiety

1. disorders. Which of the following would the nurse include when describing panic 

disorder?

A) Individuals may believe they are having a heart attack when a panic attack occurs.

B) People with panic attacks often have fewer attacks if they also have agoraphobia.

C) Typically, individuals experience this disorder after the age of 30 years.

D) Persons rarely have an underlying comorbid condition of depression.

A client comes to the emergency department because he thinks he is having a heart attack. 

Further assessment determines that the client is not having a heart attack but is having a panic 

attack. When beginning to interview the client, which question would be most

2. appropriate for the nurse to use?

A) Are you feeling much better now that you are lying down?

B) What did you experience just before and during the attack?

C) Do you think you will be able to drive home?

D) What do you think caused you to feel this way?

A client with a panic disorder has been prescribed a benzodiazepine medication. Which of

3. the following would the nurse emphasize as a risk associated with using this 

medication?

A) Dietary restrictions

B) Withdrawal symptoms

C) Agitation

D) Fecal impaction

A female client is diagnosed with panic disorder. The client tells the nurse that she hasnt left 

her house in more than a month because she was afraid of another attack. She visited the 

mental health clinic today only because her son brought her. Which nursing diagnosis

4. would be a priority for this client?

A) Powerlessness related to symptoms of anxiety

B) Decisional Conflict related to fear of leaving the house

C) Ineffective Family Coping related to symptoms of anxiety

D) Social Isolation related to fear of recurrence of anxiety symptoms

The nurse has instructed a client with panic disorder about how to use the technique of positive 

self-talk. The nurse determines that the client has understood the instructions when