ANCC Domain 1-5 questions with latest solutions

A newly graduated nurse practitioner (NP) wants to open a private psychiatric practice in her hometown. She wants to find out about the laws that cover her responsibility and the legal liability that this practice will encounter for her as an independent psychiatric nurse practitioner. Her best source of information is: A. The State Statues on Nursing or Advanced Nursing Practice B. Her city statutes C. Local Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners in practice D. The American Academy of Nurse practitioners - correct answer --A. The State Statues on Nursing or Advanced Nursing Practice Which of the following best depicts the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner in a grassroots mental health advocacy role? A. Attending a town hall meeting to seek timely police response to rising domestic violence crisis calls. B. Working on the campaign of an individual running for the state senate. C. Assisting with depression screening at a health fair in a local shopping mall D. Meeting states legislators during RN lobbying day organized by the state nurses' association - correct answer --A. Attending a town hall meeting to seek timely police response to rising domestic violence crisis calls. During a medication follow-up appointment at student mental health clinic, a 20 y/o college sophomore with depression and history of binge drinking disclosed that she has been struggling with recurrent intrusive thoughts of overdose. She recently broke up with her boyfriend when she learned that he was sleeping with her closest girlfriend. She admits taking a handful of her sertraline prescribed by the Psychiatric-mental Health Nurse Practitioner last weekend and was frustrated that it only made her sleep for a day. She's angry and ambivalent about the future, unwilling to make any promise not to harm herself, and has made veiled threats to "pay back both of them for cheating" (referring to her ex-boyfriend and girlfriend). What is the most appropriate intervention at this juncture? A. Counsel the student that she would regret hurting herself and can move beyond this broken relationship B. Ask the student to promise - correct answer --D. Ask the student if she will agree to voluntary admission and arrange involuntary admission is necessary