NURS 126 Unit 1-Psychiatric Nursing Review Questions and Answers

a core mental profession that employs a purposeful use of self as its art and a wide range of nursing, psychosocial, and neurological theories and research evidence as its science What is psychiatric-mental health nursing? individuals with psychiatric and substance abuse disorders Who does psychiatric nursing treat? Evidence based practice (EBP) What is using treatment approaches to medical and mental illness that are scientifically grounded or evidence based? Clinical decision making that synthesizes the best available research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preferences What is evidence based practice? It is a wide gap between the best evidence treatments and their effective translation into practice What is the Research-Practice gap? continued research on how best to apply the findings of clinically relevant issues What is needed for the Research-Practice gap? Evidence based practice What is striving to decrease the Research-Practice gap? Recovery model and EBP model What are the methods of treatment approaches? Social Is the Recovery model more of a social model or a medical model of disability? from one of illness and disease to an emphasis on rehabilitation and recovery What does the focus shift from in the Recovery model? Managing symptoms, coping facilitating recovery, and building resilience What does the recovery model increases consumer's ability to do? Recovery Model What method of treatment approaches views consumers as partners? Consumer and family driven In the Recovery model, mental health care is: 1990 "Decade of the Brain" When did the EBP Model come about?