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5 21. If you find a client is missing, the first thing you should do is A. tell the charge nurse and quietly conduct a room-to-room search. B. notify the local police or sheriff. C. call a meeting of the unit’s patients and ask who saw the missing patient last. D. make sure all outside doors are locked, and then activate the alarm. 22. TWICE A DAY is abbreviated as A. tad B. bid C. bdi D. td 23. To help a patient care for expensive personal belongings, you should A. suggest keeping the valuables in the office until a relative can get them. B. have the patient’s roommate keep them, if the roommate is trustworthy. C. ask the patient to share them with others so no one will want to steal them. D. help the patient hide them properly, such as under clothes in a dresser drawer. 24. Which is NOT true of the “clean-catch” collection of a urine specimen: A. It is also called a clean-voided specimen. B. The patient expels stale urine, then waits 30 minutes to give the specimen. C. The patient voids into the toilet, stops mid-stream, then gives the specimen. D. The genital area is cleaned to reduce the number of microbes in the specimen. 25. As a general rule, charting in the patient’s record covers major domains of functioning when it includes: A. Behavior, Incident, Results. B. Thinking, feelings, behavior. C. Affect, behavior, complaints. D. Signs, symptoms, sadness. 26. Which is not a sign of diabetes mellitus? A. Hunger. B. Weight gain. C. Increased urine production. D. Increased thirst. 27. The anticonvulsant Tegretol is also used A. to soften the stools of constipated patients. B. to help keep lethargic patients awake. C. to help patients sleep. D. as a mood stabilizer to treat manic behavior. © 1993-2014 American Association of Psychiatric Technicians, Inc.