NSG 526 EXAM 1 WILKES UNIVERSITY 2023
– 2024 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GOOD
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What is not considered a mental disorder? ) - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔- -An
expectable or culturally approved response to a common stressor or
loss, such as the death of a loved one
-Socially deviant behavior (i.e. political, religious, or sexual) and conflicts
that are primarily between the individual and society (unless the
behaviors are due to a dysfunction
,What is considered a mental disorder per the DSM5? ✔✔ANSWER✔✔--
Associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupation, or
other important activities
-Significant disturbance in cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior
that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological or
developmental processes underlying mental functioning -
Purpose of Scope of Practice? - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔--Define NP roles
-Identify competencies assumed to be held by all NPs who function in a
particular role
-Varies broadly from state to state
-Authoritative statements regarding the quality and type of practice
that should be provided
-Provide a way to judge the nature of care provided
-Reflect the expectation for the care that should be provided to clients
with various illnesses
Purpose of Standard of Practice? - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔--Reflect
professional agreement focused on the minimum levels of acceptable
performance
-Can be used to legally describe the standard of care that must be met
by a provider
-May be precise protocols that must be followed or more general
guidelines that recommend actions
,Purpose of Psychiatric Interview? - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Understand the
patient's illness to evaluate the effect on their lives and create a
beginning diagnosis and treatment plan
What is a Therapeutic Alliance? - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔--Create a
relationship with client by being calming, warm, understanding, kind,
respectful, concerned and focused
-Able to help patient better if a therapeutic alliance was formed
Important components of a therapeutic alliance?- ✔✔ANSWER✔✔--
Therapist and patient work collaboratively to create therapeutic change
through an affectionate bond
What is Psychotherapy? - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔--Agreement on goals of
therapy
-The therapist's ability to be empathetic and involved in therapy
-The ability of the patient to do the work of therapy
Holistic treatment that relies on the nurse's processing of that the
patient is experiencing
Peplau's most universal contribution to PMHNPs? ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-
-Her application of Sullivan's theory of anxiety to nursing practice
-Described the effects of different levels of anxiety (mild, moderate,
severe, and panic) on perception and learning
, -Promoted interventions to lower anxiety, with the aim of improving
clients' abilities to think and function at more satisfactory levels -
-Observation, interpretation, and intervention
Per Peplau, skills of a MH nurse? ✔✔ANSWER✔✔- (The PMHNP
observes and listens to the client, developing impressions about the
client's situation) -
Purpose of Group Therapy? - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Facilitate changes by the
patient in order to address identified problems
Assure dominant members are brought to the attention of the group, so
they are able to address issues within the process - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-
Role of leader in group therapy?
A person explaining to the group ways that person is able to cope with
things - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Role of information giver in group therapy?
-The processes by which the nurse helps clients make positive changes
in their health care status and well-being
-Believed that illness offered a unique opportunity for experiential
learning, personal growth, and improved coping strategies and that
PMH-APRNs play a unique role in facilitating this growth -
✔✔ANSWER✔✔-What is the main idea for Peplau's Theory of
Interpersonal Relationships?
-Silence
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