NSG 526 Exam 1 Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update
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What is not considered a mental disorder?
-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 (unle...
NSG 526 Exam 1 Questions and Correct
Answers the Latest Update
What is not considered a mental disorder?
✓ -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?
✓ -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?
✓ -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
✓ -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?
✓ 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?
✓ -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?
✓ -Therapist and patient work collaboratively to create therapeutic change through an
affectionate bond
✓ -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
What is Psychotherapy?
✓ Holistic treatment that relies on the nurse's processing of that the patient is
experiencing
✓ -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
Per Peplau, skills of a MH nurse?
✓ -Observation, interpretation, and intervention
✓ (The PMHNP observes and listens to the client, developing impressions about the
client's situation)
What is the main idea for Peplau's Theory of Interpersonal Relationships?
✓ -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
Therapeutic Communication Techniques?
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