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Varcarolis: Chapter 7 - The Nursing Process and Standards of
Care for Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Exam Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
A new staff nurse completes an orientation to the psychiatric unit. This
nurse will expect to ask an advanced practice nurse to perform which
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Varcarolis: Chapter 7 - The Nursing Process and Standards of
Care for Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Exam Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
A new staff nurse completes an orientation to the psychiatric unit. This
nurse will expect to ask an advanced practice nurse to perform which
action for patients?
a. Perform mental health assessment interviews.
b. Prescribe psychotropic medication.
c. Establish therapeutic relationships.
d. Individualize nursing care plans. - Answer✔️✔️-ANS: B
Prescriptive privileges are granted to master's-prepared nurse practitioners
who have taken special courses on prescribing medication. The nurse
prepared at the basic level performs mental health assessments, establishes
relationships, and provides individualized care planning. Note that this
Although the patient is sleeping 6 hours daily, the total is not one
uninterrupted session at night. Therefore, the outcome must be evaluated
as never demonstrated. See relationship to audience response question.
The desired outcome for a patient experiencing insomnia is, "Patient will
sleep for a minimum of 5 hours nightly within 7 days." At the end of 7
days, review of sleep data shows the patient sleeps an average of 4 hours
nightly and takes a 2-hour afternoon nap. What is the nurse's next action?
a. Continue the current plan without changes.
b. Remove this nursing diagnosis from the plan of care.
c. Write a new nursing diagnosis that better reflects the problem.
d. Examine interventions for possible revision of the target date. -
Answer✔️✔️-ANS: D
Sleeping a total of 5 hours at night remains a reasonable outcome.
Extending the period for attaining the outcome may be appropriate.
Examining interventions might result in planning an activity during the
afternoon rather than permitting a nap. Continuing the current plan
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