PMH BC TEST FINAL EXAM AND
PRACTICE QUESTIONS EXAM
CURRENTLY TESTING
QUESTIONS WITH 100%
DETAILED VERIFIED AND
CORRECT ANSWERS ACTUAL
BRAND-NEW EXAM ALREADY
GRADED A+
Patient is being discharged from the psychiatric unit are
referred to the outpatient wellness recovery action plan
(WR AP) for group intervention. The primary focus of
this program is to help patient's to:
A. Avoid relapses and re-hospitalization
B. Avoid substance abuse.
C. Identify needs for services.
D. Identify personal wellness tools. ....ANSWER...D.
Identify personal wellness tools
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,The primary focus of the wellness recovery action plan
(WRAP) for group intervention is to help patients to
identify personal wellness tools (personal resources) and
then to utilize those tools to develop a plan to use when
situations arise that threatened the person's health or
wellbeing, such as the desire to take drugs or go off
medications. Part of WRAP is to develop daily
maintenance plan and to identify negative triggers and
warning signs. The patient identifies what happens when
things go very wrong and develops a crisis plan/advanced
directive and a post crisis plan.
Patient with a long history of schizophrenia and alcohol
and drug addiction with repeated institutionalizations
and stabilized after the current hospitalization and is
ready for discharge. Which of the following community
resource referrals is most likely to be effective?
A. Community mental Health Center
B. Psychiatric home health care
Assertive community treatment (ACT)
D. Partial hospitalization program - ....ANSWER...C.
Assertive community treatment (ACT)
Assertive community treatment (ACT) is a
comprehensive interdisciplinary case management
approach to providing treatment for patients with
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,severe and persistent mental illness. ACT provides
services from psychiatry, nursing, social work, and
rehabilitation (substance abuse, vocational) around- the-
clock to help patients:
-Decrease/eliminate symptoms
-Minimize recurrent/acute exacerbations
-Meet basic needs
-Improved functioning (social, vocational)
-Live independently
Another goal for the program is to help relieve family
members of the burden of caring for patients with
serious mental illness.
An Asian American adolescent is to be discharged from a
psychiatric unit after a psychotic episode, but the parents,
who are immigrants from China, are adamant that the
patient cannot receive any outpatient treatment or follow-
up care, stating that his illness was caused by an
"infection". The possible reason for this is:
A. They are unfamiliar with the Western treatment for
mental illness
B. They have poor language skills and this
understand the diagnosis.
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, C. They have very low health literacy.
D. They are ashamed that their child has a
psychiatric condition. - ....ANSWER...D. They are
ashamed their child has a psychiatric condition.
A 16 year old patient with anorexia nervosa weighs 76
pounds, is severely emaciated and malnourished, and has
developed cardiac dysrythmias. Nutrition is critical, but
the patient refuses to eat any food. The most appropriate
response for the psychiatric and mental health nurse is:
A. "You will die if you don't eat."
B. "You will be fed by nasogastric tube if you don't
eat."
C. "We can't help you if you don't help yourself."
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PRACTICE QUESTIONS EXAM
CURRENTLY TESTING
QUESTIONS WITH 100%
DETAILED VERIFIED AND
CORRECT ANSWERS ACTUAL
BRAND-NEW EXAM ALREADY
GRADED A+
Patient is being discharged from the psychiatric unit are
referred to the outpatient wellness recovery action plan
(WR AP) for group intervention. The primary focus of
this program is to help patient's to:
A. Avoid relapses and re-hospitalization
B. Avoid substance abuse.
C. Identify needs for services.
D. Identify personal wellness tools. ....ANSWER...D.
Identify personal wellness tools
1
,The primary focus of the wellness recovery action plan
(WRAP) for group intervention is to help patients to
identify personal wellness tools (personal resources) and
then to utilize those tools to develop a plan to use when
situations arise that threatened the person's health or
wellbeing, such as the desire to take drugs or go off
medications. Part of WRAP is to develop daily
maintenance plan and to identify negative triggers and
warning signs. The patient identifies what happens when
things go very wrong and develops a crisis plan/advanced
directive and a post crisis plan.
Patient with a long history of schizophrenia and alcohol
and drug addiction with repeated institutionalizations
and stabilized after the current hospitalization and is
ready for discharge. Which of the following community
resource referrals is most likely to be effective?
A. Community mental Health Center
B. Psychiatric home health care
Assertive community treatment (ACT)
D. Partial hospitalization program - ....ANSWER...C.
Assertive community treatment (ACT)
Assertive community treatment (ACT) is a
comprehensive interdisciplinary case management
approach to providing treatment for patients with
2
,severe and persistent mental illness. ACT provides
services from psychiatry, nursing, social work, and
rehabilitation (substance abuse, vocational) around- the-
clock to help patients:
-Decrease/eliminate symptoms
-Minimize recurrent/acute exacerbations
-Meet basic needs
-Improved functioning (social, vocational)
-Live independently
Another goal for the program is to help relieve family
members of the burden of caring for patients with
serious mental illness.
An Asian American adolescent is to be discharged from a
psychiatric unit after a psychotic episode, but the parents,
who are immigrants from China, are adamant that the
patient cannot receive any outpatient treatment or follow-
up care, stating that his illness was caused by an
"infection". The possible reason for this is:
A. They are unfamiliar with the Western treatment for
mental illness
B. They have poor language skills and this
understand the diagnosis.
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, C. They have very low health literacy.
D. They are ashamed that their child has a
psychiatric condition. - ....ANSWER...D. They are
ashamed their child has a psychiatric condition.
A 16 year old patient with anorexia nervosa weighs 76
pounds, is severely emaciated and malnourished, and has
developed cardiac dysrythmias. Nutrition is critical, but
the patient refuses to eat any food. The most appropriate
response for the psychiatric and mental health nurse is:
A. "You will die if you don't eat."
B. "You will be fed by nasogastric tube if you don't
eat."
C. "We can't help you if you don't help yourself."
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