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Table of Contents
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Chapter ss 01: ss Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice ss ss ss ss ss 2
Chapter ss 02: ss Mental Health and Mental Disorders
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Chapter ss 03: ss Cultural and Spiritual Issues Related to Mental Health Care
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Chapter ss 04: ss Patient Rights and Legal Issues
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Chapter ss 05: ss Mental Health Care in the Community
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Chapter ss 06: ss Ethics, Standards, and Nursing Frameworks
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Chapter ss 07: ss Psychosocial Theoretic Basis of Psychiatric Nursing ss ss ss ss ss 25
Chapter ss 08: ss Biologic Foundations of Psychiatric Nursing
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Chapter ss 09: ss Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship ss ss ss ss 33
Chapter ss 10: ss The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Process
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Chapter ss 11: ss Psychopharmacology, Dietary Supplements, and Biologic Interventions ss ss ss ss ss 41
Chapter ss 12: ss Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing
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Chapter ss 13: ss Group Interventions ss 50
Chapter ss 14: ss Family Assessment and Interventions
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Chapter ss 15: ss Mental Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents
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Chapter ss 16: ss Mental Health Promotion for Young and Middle-Aged Adults
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Chapter ss 17: ss Mental Health Promotion for Older Adults
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Chapter ss 18: ss Stress and Mental Health
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Chapter 19: Management of Anger, Aggression, and Violence
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Chapter 20: Crisis, Loss, Grief, Response, Bereavement, and Disaster Management 76
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Chapter 21: Suicide Prevention: Screening, Assessment, and Intervention
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Chapter 22: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: Nursing Care of Persons with
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Chapter 23: Depression: Management of Depressive Moods and Suicidal Behavior
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Chapter 24: Bipolar Disorders: Management of Mood Lability
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Chapter 25: Anxiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety, Phobia, and Panic
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Chapter 26: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
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Chapter 27: Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
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Chapter 28: Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder: Management of
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Emotional Dysregulation and Self-Harm
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Chapter 29: Antisocial Personality and Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct
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Disorders
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Chapter 30: Addiction and Substance-Related Disorders
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Weight Chapter 32: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
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Chapter 33: Nursing Care of Persons with Insomnia and Sleep Problems
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Chapter 34: Sexual Disorders: Management of Sexual Dysfunction and
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Paraphilias Chapter 35: Mental Health Assessment of Children and
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Adolescents
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Chapter 36: Mental Health Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
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Chapter 37: Mental Health Assessment of Older Adults
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Chapter 38: Neurocognitive Disorders
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Chapter 39: Caring for Persons Who Are Homeless and Mentally
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Ill Chapter 40: Caring for Persons With Co-occurring Mental
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Disorders Chapter 41: Caring for Survivors of Violence and
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Abuse
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Chapter 42: Caring for Persons With Mental Illness and Criminal
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Behavior Chapter 43: Caring for Medically Compromised Persons
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Practice
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1. A group of nursing students are reviewing information about the evolution of mental health care and
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are discussing the recommendations of the final report of the Joint Commission on Mental
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Illness and Health. The students demonstrate understanding of this information when they
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identify that the report recommended an increase in which of the following?
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D) Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists
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theories and views of mental health and illness, the nurse identifies which of the following as
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most strongly linked to this holistic approach?
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A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable.
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Mary Adelaide Nutting.
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treatment at community mental health centers.
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C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male students and the
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first training school for psychiatric nursing.
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D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nurses was established in response to the
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publication of psychiatric nursing specialty journals.
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C) The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of deinstitutionalization.
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D) Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of therapeutic communication.
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mental disorders beginning to be viewed as illnesses requiring treatment?
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Test Bank - Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice (6th Edition by Boyd)
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, Table of Contents ss ss
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Table of Contents
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Chapter ss 01: ss Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice ss ss ss ss ss 2
Chapter ss 02: ss Mental Health and Mental Disorders
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Chapter ss 03: ss Cultural and Spiritual Issues Related to Mental Health Care
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Chapter ss 04: ss Patient Rights and Legal Issues
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Chapter ss 05: ss Mental Health Care in the Community
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Chapter ss 06: ss Ethics, Standards, and Nursing Frameworks
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Chapter ss 07: ss Psychosocial Theoretic Basis of Psychiatric Nursing ss ss ss ss ss 25
Chapter ss 08: ss Biologic Foundations of Psychiatric Nursing
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Chapter ss 09: ss Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship ss ss ss ss 33
Chapter ss 10: ss The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Process
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Chapter ss 11: ss Psychopharmacology, Dietary Supplements, and Biologic Interventions ss ss ss ss ss 41
Chapter ss 12: ss Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing
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Chapter ss 13: ss Group Interventions ss 50
Chapter ss 14: ss Family Assessment and Interventions
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Chapter ss 15: ss Mental Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents
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Chapter ss 16: ss Mental Health Promotion for Young and Middle-Aged Adults
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Chapter ss 17: ss Mental Health Promotion for Older Adults
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Chapter ss 18: ss Stress and Mental Health
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Chapter 19: Management of Anger, Aggression, and Violence
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Chapter 20: Crisis, Loss, Grief, Response, Bereavement, and Disaster Management 76
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Chapter 21: Suicide Prevention: Screening, Assessment, and Intervention
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Chapter 22: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: Nursing Care of Persons with
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Thought
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Disorders 84
Chapter 23: Depression: Management of Depressive Moods and Suicidal Behavior
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Chapter 24: Bipolar Disorders: Management of Mood Lability
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Chapter 25: Anxiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety, Phobia, and Panic
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Chapter 26: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
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Chapter 27: Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
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Chapter 28: Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder: Management of
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Emotional Dysregulation and Self-Harm
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Chapter 29: Antisocial Personality and Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct
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Disorders
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Chapter 30: Addiction and Substance-Related Disorders
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s Chapter 31: Eating Disorders: Management of Eating and
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Weight Chapter 32: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
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Chapter 33: Nursing Care of Persons with Insomnia and Sleep Problems
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Chapter 34: Sexual Disorders: Management of Sexual Dysfunction and
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Paraphilias Chapter 35: Mental Health Assessment of Children and
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Adolescents
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Chapter 36: Mental Health Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
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Chapter 37: Mental Health Assessment of Older Adults
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Chapter 38: Neurocognitive Disorders
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Chapter 39: Caring for Persons Who Are Homeless and Mentally
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Ill Chapter 40: Caring for Persons With Co-occurring Mental
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Disorders Chapter 41: Caring for Survivors of Violence and
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Abuse
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Chapter 42: Caring for Persons With Mental Illness and Criminal
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Behavior Chapter 43: Caring for Medically Compromised Persons
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,Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based
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Practice
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1. A group of nursing students are reviewing information about the evolution of mental health care and
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are discussing the recommendations of the final report of the Joint Commission on Mental
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Illness and Health. The students demonstrate understanding of this information when they
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identify that the report recommended an increase in which of the following?
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A) Numbers of mental health hospitals ss ss ss ss
B) State funding for mental health care ss ss ss ss ss
C) Clinics supplemented by general hospital units ss ss ss ss ss
D) Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists
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2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association‟s Statement on Psychiatric Nursing
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Practice published in 1967, which sanctioned the involvement of psychiatricmental
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health nurses in the provision of holistic nursing care. Integrating knowledge of the various
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theories and views of mental health and illness, the nurse identifies which of the following as
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most strongly linked to this holistic approach?
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A) Sigmund Freud‟s psychoanalytic theory ss ss ss
B) Florence Nightingale‟s Notes on Nursing ss ss ss ss
C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers‟ A Mind That Found Itself ss ss ss ss ss ss
E) Peplau‟s Interpersonal Relations in Nursing ss ss ss ss
3. A nursing instructor is preparing a presentation about key events and people that
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influenced the development of contemporary mental health and illness care. When describing the
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effects of World War II, which of the following would the instructor include?
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A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable.
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B) The biologic understanding of mental illness was almost fully developed.
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C) Deinstitutionalization occurred in response to the community health movement. ss ss ss ss ss ss ss ss
D) Mental illnesses became categorized as psychoses or neuroses.
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4. A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatricmental health nursing and
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its place within nursing history. Which of the following would be most
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appropriate to include?
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A) Certification for the psychiatricmental health nursing specialty was first emphasized by
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Mary Adelaide Nutting.
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B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized patients got
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treatment at community mental health centers.
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C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male students and the
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first training school for psychiatric nursing.
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D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nurses was established in response to the
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publication of psychiatric nursing specialty journals.
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5. Two nursing students are discussing psychiatricmental health nursing and the role it has played
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in nursing‟s overall history. Which statement is most accurate?
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A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
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B) The use of self-care to enhance the immune system was taught by Dorothea Dix.
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C) The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of deinstitutionalization.
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D) Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of therapeutic communication.
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6. When reviewing the evolution of mental health and illness care, which event is associated with
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mental disorders beginning to be viewed as illnesses requiring treatment?
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7. A psychiatricmental health nurse is working on a committee that is developing programs that
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integrate the objectives for mental health and mental disorders as identified in Healthy People
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2020. Which type
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A) Single substance abuse treatment programs ss ss ss ss
B) Depression screening programs for primary care providers ss ss ss ss ss ss
C) Mental health programs for the homeless population
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D) Employment programs for those with serious mental illness ss ss ss ss ss ss ss
8. A nursing instructor is describing the concept of evidence-based practice in
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important? Select all that apply.
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practice. Which event occurred first?
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A) Publication of Standards of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing by the ANA
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