Exam 1: NR548/ NR 548 (Latest Update 2024/ 2025) Psychiatric Assessment for the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Review |Weeks 1-2 Covered| Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct- Chamberlain
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Exam 1: NR54 8/ NR 54 8 (Latest Update 2024/ 2025) Psychiatric Assessment for the Psychiatric -Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Review |Weeks 1 -2 Covered| Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct - Chamberlain Q: Following WWI, the National League for Nursing Education added: Answer: "nursing in nervous and mental diseases" to curriculum guides Q: In WWII, many potential military recruits deemed unfit for service due to psychiatric concerns, while many veterans experienced combat -related neuropsychiatric conditions. Laura Fitzsimmons recommended: Answer: standards of training for psychiatric nurses, which led to improved education and standards of care. Q: National Mental Health Act (NMHA) of 1946 Answer: -psychiatric nursing was recognized as one of the four core disciplines in psychiatric care and treatment -The act increased funding for psychiatric nursing education programs and contributed to a growth in university -based nursing education. Q: 1954 Answer: -the first graduate program in psychiatric nursing was established at Rutgers University by Hildegarde Peplau • to prepare nurse therapists. -The first advanced practice nursing role was the psychiatric -mental health clinical nurse specialist (PMHCNS) role. Q: The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 Answer: (1950s brought a transiti on towards deinstitutionalization in care for those with mental illnesses, which led to an increase in the number of psychiatric clients receiving care in the community rather than hospitals) -The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 allowed for the expansion of the PMHCNS role into community and ambulatory settings as they helped those who had been deinstitutionalized adapt Q: 1965 Answer: Loretta Ford, RN and Henry Silver MD introduce the nurse practitioner role. Q: 1973 ANA first published: Answer: Standards of Psychiatric -Mental Health Nursing Practice Q: 1980s states began to grant: Answer: prescriptive authority to advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), adding medication prescribing and management to the traditional therapy role of the psychiatric mental health (PMH) APRN. Q: 2000s these exams were developed: Answer: Certification exams for adult and family psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) developed. -These exams were retired in 2015 when psychiatric certification exams were combined to a single Psychiatric -Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (Across the Lifespan) Certification (PMHNP -BC). Q: The 21st Century Cures Act of 2016: Answer: -resulted in the creation of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee (ISMICC) -group is charged with compiling a summary of advances in serious mental illness (SMI) and serious emotional disturbance (SED) research, evaluating federal programs and treatment services related to SMI and SED, and making specific recommendations to bette r coordinate the administration of mental health services Q: present: Answer: Current trends in care focus on integrated treatment of those with co -occurring medical and psychiatric diagnoses and co -occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders, leading to a need to add content in advanced health assessment, pharmacology, patho physiology, and the diagnosis of psychiatric illness to graduate psychiatric nursing curricula. -Primary care has become the point of entry to psychiatric care for many clients. -PMHNPs are helping to address the growing need for primary mental health services and mental illness prevention. -Though the number of advanced practice psychiatric nurses has increased, there are still limitations in access for many clients, which has led to disparities in mental health treatment.
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