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6 years ago
A nurse counseling a patient with a dissociative identity disorder should understand that the assessment of highest priority is:
 
  a. Risk for self-harm
  b. Cognitive functioning
  c. Identification of drug abuse
  d. Readiness to reestablish identity or memory
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Assessments that relate to patient safety take priority. Patients with dissociative identity disorders may be at risk for suicide or self-mutilation; therefore the nurse must be alert for hints of hopelessness, helplessness and worthlessness, low self-esteem, and impulses to self-mutilate. The distracters are important assessments but rank beneath safety.
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