Which is a nursing responsibility that only an APRN-PMH can perform? A.Conducting psychotherapy B.Administering prescription medications C.Integrating biological and complementary therapies D.Adapting health instruction to a patient's specific needs A.
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Which is a nursing responsibility that only an APRN-PMH can perform?
A.Conducting psychotherapy
B.Administering prescription medications
C.Integrating biological and complementary therapies
D.Adapting health instruction to a patient's specific needs ✅A.
A nurse's sister happily says to the nurse, "I want to introduce you to my fiancé. We're
getting married in six months!"
The nurse has encountered the fiancé in a clinical setting and is aware of the fiancé's
diagnosis of schizophrenia. What is the nurse's best response?
a. In private, tell the sister about the fiancé's diagnosis.
b. Encourage the sister to delay the wedding for at least a year.
c. Ask the fiancé, "Have you told my sister about your illness?"
d. Say to the couple, "I hope you will be very happy together." ✅D
A couple attends family therapy. The wife states her husband "doesn't listen and he's
not supportive of me".
The husband responds, "I'm listening to you. I want to support you in this," while he
glares out the window and then taps his foot and sighs when she starts to cry and
explain her feelings. Which is the best description of the husband's response?
A.Active listening
B.Reflective listening
C.Use of a patient filter
D.Double-bind message ✅D
Which is the moral component of personality structure, according to Freud?
A.The Id
B.The Ego
C.The Superego
D.The Unconscious ✅C
Which theory is most likely to help the nurse respond appropriately to the needs of an
aging patient experiencing frustration after a stroke?
A. Behavioral
B. Cognitive
C. Psychosocial development
D. Hierarchy of needs ✅C
,Eileen works with youth in a residential treatment center. When Amber, a new patient of
hers, does not want her parents to visit, Eileen says, "I know how you feel. Did your dad
molest you too?" Eileen's reaction is an example of which behavior?
A. Empathy
B. Verbal tracking
C. Countertransference
D. Positive reinforcement ✅C
Because he works with young men in a treatment center for domestic abuse, Ernesto is
always careful to be respectful of both patients and staff—"especially women," he tells a
coworker. Which educational tool is Ernesto demonstrating most clearly?
Empathy
Modeling
Transference
Value teaching ✅Modeling
Which step in SOAPIE involves interpretation of two kinds of data in identifying a
problem or a nursing diagnosis?
A. "S"
B. "A"
C. "P"
D. "I" ✅A
Social stigma related to mental illness refers to which one of the following statements?
A. Mental illness is a disease process.
B. Mental illness is inherited.
C. Mental illness is a complex problem.
D. Mental illness is due to wrong thinking. ✅D
Which one of the following most correctly defines a psychiatrist?
A. Medical physician
B. Psychologist
C. Mental health counselor
D. Psychiatric practitioner ✅A
The role of a psychiatric nurse on an inpatient unit would include which one of the
following?
A. Prescribing medication
B. Maintaining a therapeutic milieu
C. Analyzing patient behavior
D. Providing psychotherapy ✅B
Private insurance typically covers which one of the following?
A. All illnesses regardless of duration
B. All illnesses except mental illness
C. All mental illnesses over a lifetime
, D. Mental illness with a lifetime cap ✅D
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits typically cover needs based on
which one of the following?
A. Disability
B. Economic need
C. Unemployment
D. Mental illness ✅A
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits typically cover needs based on which one
of the following?
A. Mental illness
B. Unemployment
C. Homelessness
D. Economic need ✅D
What is an algorithm?
A.Mathematical problem
B.Type of intellectual puzzle
C.Step-by-step guidelines in a flowchart
D.Method of solving problems ✅C
Which is an example of patient advocacy?
A.The nurse provides empathic listening.
B.The nurse combines competence and caring.
C.The nurse allows the patient to defend his preferences to the nurse.
D.The nurse respects the patient's decision to refuse treatment. ✅D
Which is most likely to be a precursor to developing agoraphobia?
A. Social phobia
B. Bipolar disorder
C. Panic disorder
D. Anxiety disorder ✅C
Bandi lives in a cemetery under a tarp. He scavenges for food around the local
supermarket. Today, the manager of the supermarket calls the police. Upon arrival, they
find Bandi pushing multiple grocery carts, agitated, his fingers bleeding. He tells the
police, "I have to scrub all the rust off these carts and all the carts in the world. Then I
can be saved and go to heaven." The police bring Bandi to the community mental health
center.
Discuss this patient's legal rights. Were the police justified in bringing him to the center?
Explain your answers. Should he have been initially taken to jail? Why or why
not?Which one of the following applies to Bandi's rights as a citizen?
A. His rights were violated.
B. His rights were upheld.
C. His rights were not considered.
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