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Test Bank for Varcarolis Canadian Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing 3rd Edition by Cheryl L. Pollard, Sonya L. Jakubec ISBN-9780323778794$20.49
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Test Bank For Varcarolis Canadian Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing 3rd Edition COMPLETE AND CORRECT A new staff nurse completes orientation to a psychiatric unit. This nurse may expect an advanced practice nurse to perform which additional interventions? a. Conduct mental health assessments b. Est...
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Varcarolis Canadian Psychiatric Mental Health
Nursing
3rd Edition By Pollard
All Chapter 1 – 35
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, Chapter 01: Mental Health and Mental Illness
Varcarolis’s Canadian Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 3rd Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A staff nurse completes orientation to a psychiatric unit. Which of the
following would the nurse expect as an advanced practice intervention?
a. Conduct mental health assessments
b. Prescribe psychotropic medication
c. Establish therapeutic relationships
d. Individualize nursing care plans
ANSWER: B
Prescriptive privileges are granted to master’s-prepared nurse practitioners who
have taken special courses on prescribing medication; thus it is an advanced-
practice intervention. The nurse prepared at the basic level is permitted to
perform mental health assessments, establish relationships, and provide
individualized care planning.
2. When a nursing student expresses concerns about how mental health nurses
“lose all their nursing skills,” which of the following is the best response by the
mental health nurse?
a. “Psychiatric nurses practise in safer environments than other
specialties. Nurse-to-patient ratios must be better because of the
nature of the patients’
problems .
.”
b. “Psychiatric nurses use complex communication skills as well as critical
thinking to solve multidimensional problems. I am challenged by those
situations.”
c. “That’s a misconception. Psychiatric nurses frequently use high-
technology monitoring equipment and manage complex
intravenous therapies.”
d. “Psychiatric nurses do not have to deal with as much pain and
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