Exam 1: PRN 1562 / PRN1562 (Latest 2024 / 2025 Update) Principles of Mental Health Nursing Exam Review | 100% Correct Questions and Verified Answers | Rasmussen Question: The role of the psych RN - what is considered within the scope of practice? Answer: "Psychiatric nursing is a specialized area of nursing practice committed to promoting mental health through the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of behavioral problems, psychiatric disorders, and comorbid conditions. Psychiatric nursing interventions i s an art and a science, employing a purposeful use of self and a wide range of nursing, psychosocial, and neurobiological research evidence to produce effective outcomes." Question: Describe how to assess: attention Answer: Performance on serial sevens, digit span tests Question: Nursing Process: Answer: Assessment (gather data) Diagnosis (NANDA and prioritize) Outcome (what is expected outcome?) Planning (interventions, EBP, document) Implementation (therapies providing) Evaluation (goals met?)Developing a goal/outcome includes Question: How to develop a plan of care Answer: • EBP should be used when developing plans of care. • The plan of care should be client -focused and address their needs. • Nurses work with other healthcare team members to develop plans of care. • Assessments are essential to developing a plan of care tha t suits the client(s). Question: Mental Health: Answer: State of well -being in which every individual realizes his/her own potential, can cope with normal stresses of life, can work productively, able to make contribution to community without illness. Fundamental to health Question: Mental Illness: Answer: Wide range of health conditions/disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior, real health conditions that have an immense impact on individuals and families Question: Describe the sections of the psychiatric assessment: Answer: Establish rapport, obtain an understanding of the problem, review physical status/vitals, assess for risk factors, perform an MSE, assess psychosocial status, identify goals for treatment, formulate a plan of care, document data Question: Describe the sections of the MSE: Answer: Mental status exam or MMSE (mini mental status exam --evaluating current cognitive processes/function (draw a clock at 10, remember these 3 words) Question: Information gathered in the MSE: Answer: Information gathered includes personal information (demographics), appearance (grooming, hygiene, tattoos), behavior (body movements, eye contact), speech (rate, volume), affect and mood (flat, animated v. sad), thought (disorganized, coherent, suicidal), perceptual disturbances (hallucinations), and cognition (orientation, memory, knowledge) Question: Describe how to assess: abstraction Answer: Performance on tests involving similarities, proverbs Question: Describe how to assess: insight Answer: Ability to identify and understand present condition Question: Describe how to assess: judgement Answer: Ability to assess a practical dilemma
