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TEST BANK For Community and Public
Health Nursing: Evidence for Practice
Chapter
Illness 01: Mental Health and Mental
Halter: Varcarolis’ Foundations of
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: A
ClinicalApproach, 9th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
•The scope of practiced forinclude
an advanced
nurse practitioner would which
intervention?
•• Conducting a mental health
Prescribing psychotropic assessment.
medication.
• Establishing a therapeutic relationship.
Individualizing
• a nursing care plan.
ANS: B
In most states, prescriptive privileges are
granted to master’s-prepared nurse
practitioners and clinical nurse specialists
who have taken special courses on
prescribing medication. The nurse
prepared at the basic level is permitted to
perform mental health assessments,
establish relationships, and provide
individualized care planning.
PTS: 1 DIF:(Comprehension)
Cognitive Level:
Understand
TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation
MSC: Client Needs: Safe,
Effective Care Environment
•A nursing student expresses concerns that
mental health nurses “lose all their
clinical nursing
skills.” Select nurse.
the best response by the
mental health
• “Psychiatric nurses practice in safer
environments than other specialties.
Nurse-to- client ratios must be better
because of the nature of the clients’
problems.”
• “Psychiatric nurses use complex
communication skills as well as
critical thinking to solve
, multidimensional problems. I am
challenged by those situations.”
• “That’s a misconception.
Psychiatric nurses frequently use
high technology monitoring
equipment and manage complex
intravenous therapies.”
• “Psychiatric nursespain
do not have to
deal with as much and
suffering
nurses do.asThat
medical–surgical
appeals to me.”
ANS: B
The practice of psychiatric nursing
requires a different set of skills than
medical–surgical nursing, though there
is substantial overlap. Psychiatric nurses
must be able to help clients with
medical as well as mental health
problems, reflecting the holistic
perspective these nurses must have.
Nurse–client ratios and workloads in
psychiatric settings have increased, just
like other specialties. Psychiatric
nursing involves clinical practice, not
just documentation.
Psychosocial pain andand
suffering are as
real as physical pain suffering.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply
(Application)
TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation
MSC: Client Needs: Safe,
Effective Care Environment
•When a new bill introduced in Congress
reduces funding for care of persons
diagnosed with mental illness, a group
of nurses write letters to their elected
representatives in opposition to the
legislation. Which role have the nurses
fulfilled?
•• Recovery
Attending
• Advocacy
• Evidence-based practice
Test
, bank Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-
Mental Health Nursing 9th Edition 3
ANS: C
An advocate defends or asserts another’s
cause, particularly when the other
person lacks the ability to do that for
self. Examples of individual advocacy
include helping clients understand their
rights or make decisions. On a
community scale, advocacy includes
political activity, public speaking, and
publication in the interest of improving
the human condition. Since funding is
necessary to deliver quality
programming for persons with mental
illness, the letter- writing campaign
advocates for that cause on behalf of
clients who are unable to articulate their
own needs.
PTS: 1 DIF:(Comprehension)
Cognitive Level:
Understand
TOP: Nursing Process: Evaluation
MSC: Client Needs: Safe,
Effective Care Environment
•Which assessment finding most clearly
indicates that a client may be
experiencing
reporting a mental illness?
• anxiety. occasional sleeplessness and
• reporting a consistently sad, discouraged,
and hopeless mood.
• being able toif”
describe thereal.”
difference
between “as and “for
• experiencing
decision aboutdifficulty
whether making a jobs.
to change
ANS: B
The correct response describes a mood
alteration, which reflects mental illness.
The distracters describe behaviors that are
mentally healthy or within the usual scope
of human experience.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply
(Application)
TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
Psychosocial Integrity Needs:
MSC: Client
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