NSG 526 EXAM 1 (QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS)
1. DSM-5 TR: How is it utilized? - ANSWER: Utilized in diagnostic assessment
process only,
2. DSM-5 TR: What does it not suggest? - ANSWER: Treatment strategy.
3. Accurate Documentation: Why is it significant? - ANSWER: Significant for legal
protection, regulatory standards compliance, reimbursement, liability reduction,
consistency in therapeutic intervention, and assistance with utilization review.
4. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospital Organization (JCAHO): What do
they emphasize? - ANSWER: Emphasizes performance improvement,
outcomes, and a multidisciplinary approach to client-centered care, requiring
compliance with documentation regulations.
5. What does Nursing Documentation have to demonstrate for proper
reimbursement? - ANSWER: The necessity and delivery of billed services to
third-party payers, such as Medicare and private insurers.
6. CPT Coding: What does it do? - ANSWER: Accurately describes medical,
surgical, and diagnostic services, facilitates cost containment, and ensures
proper charge capture for services rendered.
7. SOAP Note - ANSWER: Documentation format for recording SUBJECTIVE
observations, OBJECTIVE findings, ASSESSMENT of the client's current status,
and the PLAN for treatment or follow-up care.
8. SOAPIE Note: What is included beside the SOAP note? - ANSWER: Includes
IMPLEMENTATION considerations of the services to be provided (I) and the
EVALUATION of service provision (E), in addition to the components of a SOAP
note.
9. SOAPIER Note: What is included beside the SOAPIER note? - ANSWER:
Includes all elements of a SOAPIE note, plus the client's RESPONSE (R) to the
diagnostic process, treatment planning, and intervention efforts.
10. Freud's topographical theory - ANSWER: Sigmund Freud's theory of the three
levels of psychological awareness: unconscious, preconscious, and conscious.
11. Unconscious mind (Freud) - ANSWER: Operates independently from the
conscious mind, influencing behavior without direct awareness.
12. Preconscious level of awareness (Freud) - ANSWER: Includes information not
currently in awareness but can be brought into consciousness if needed.
, NSG 526 EXAM 1 (QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS)
13. Conscious mind (Freud) - ANSWER: Where current thinking processes and
objects of attention reside, constituting a significant portion of awareness.
14. Psychodynamic therapy model - ANSWER: Follows the psychoanalytic model
and utilizes tools such as free association, dream analysis, transference, and
countertransference.
15. Difference: Psychodynamic therapy vs. traditional psychoanalysis - ANSWER:
Involves increased involvement and interaction between therapist and client, and
focuses more on the present rather than reconstructing developmental origins of
conflicts.
16. Best candidates for brief psychotherapy - ANSWER: Relatively healthy, well-
functioning individuals with a clearly circumscribed area of difficulty, who are
intelligent, psychologically minded, and motivated for change.
17. Inappropriate candidates for brief psychotherapy - ANSWER: Clients with
psychosis, severe depression, borderline personality disorders, and severe
character disorders.
18. Focus determination and session frequency in psychodynamic therapy -
ANSWER: Focus is agreed upon at the start of treatment, and sessions are
held weekly with the total number determined at the onset of therapy.
19. Common elements in brief psychodynamic therapies - ANSWER: Rapid and
early assessment, clear expectations for time-limited therapy, concrete goals
focused on improving worst symptoms and coping skills, and directing
interpretations toward present life circumstances.
20. Assessment approach in brief psychodynamic therapy - ANSWER: Rapid and
early assessment.
21. Goals of brief psychodynamic therapy - ANSWER: Concrete goals focused on
improving worst symptoms, enhancing coping skills, and helping the client
understand their current life circumstances.
22. Focus of interpretations in brief psychodynamic therapy - ANSWER: Directed
toward present life circumstances and client behavior rather than historical
significance of feelings.
1. DSM-5 TR: How is it utilized? - ANSWER: Utilized in diagnostic assessment
process only,
2. DSM-5 TR: What does it not suggest? - ANSWER: Treatment strategy.
3. Accurate Documentation: Why is it significant? - ANSWER: Significant for legal
protection, regulatory standards compliance, reimbursement, liability reduction,
consistency in therapeutic intervention, and assistance with utilization review.
4. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospital Organization (JCAHO): What do
they emphasize? - ANSWER: Emphasizes performance improvement,
outcomes, and a multidisciplinary approach to client-centered care, requiring
compliance with documentation regulations.
5. What does Nursing Documentation have to demonstrate for proper
reimbursement? - ANSWER: The necessity and delivery of billed services to
third-party payers, such as Medicare and private insurers.
6. CPT Coding: What does it do? - ANSWER: Accurately describes medical,
surgical, and diagnostic services, facilitates cost containment, and ensures
proper charge capture for services rendered.
7. SOAP Note - ANSWER: Documentation format for recording SUBJECTIVE
observations, OBJECTIVE findings, ASSESSMENT of the client's current status,
and the PLAN for treatment or follow-up care.
8. SOAPIE Note: What is included beside the SOAP note? - ANSWER: Includes
IMPLEMENTATION considerations of the services to be provided (I) and the
EVALUATION of service provision (E), in addition to the components of a SOAP
note.
9. SOAPIER Note: What is included beside the SOAPIER note? - ANSWER:
Includes all elements of a SOAPIE note, plus the client's RESPONSE (R) to the
diagnostic process, treatment planning, and intervention efforts.
10. Freud's topographical theory - ANSWER: Sigmund Freud's theory of the three
levels of psychological awareness: unconscious, preconscious, and conscious.
11. Unconscious mind (Freud) - ANSWER: Operates independently from the
conscious mind, influencing behavior without direct awareness.
12. Preconscious level of awareness (Freud) - ANSWER: Includes information not
currently in awareness but can be brought into consciousness if needed.
, NSG 526 EXAM 1 (QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS)
13. Conscious mind (Freud) - ANSWER: Where current thinking processes and
objects of attention reside, constituting a significant portion of awareness.
14. Psychodynamic therapy model - ANSWER: Follows the psychoanalytic model
and utilizes tools such as free association, dream analysis, transference, and
countertransference.
15. Difference: Psychodynamic therapy vs. traditional psychoanalysis - ANSWER:
Involves increased involvement and interaction between therapist and client, and
focuses more on the present rather than reconstructing developmental origins of
conflicts.
16. Best candidates for brief psychotherapy - ANSWER: Relatively healthy, well-
functioning individuals with a clearly circumscribed area of difficulty, who are
intelligent, psychologically minded, and motivated for change.
17. Inappropriate candidates for brief psychotherapy - ANSWER: Clients with
psychosis, severe depression, borderline personality disorders, and severe
character disorders.
18. Focus determination and session frequency in psychodynamic therapy -
ANSWER: Focus is agreed upon at the start of treatment, and sessions are
held weekly with the total number determined at the onset of therapy.
19. Common elements in brief psychodynamic therapies - ANSWER: Rapid and
early assessment, clear expectations for time-limited therapy, concrete goals
focused on improving worst symptoms and coping skills, and directing
interpretations toward present life circumstances.
20. Assessment approach in brief psychodynamic therapy - ANSWER: Rapid and
early assessment.
21. Goals of brief psychodynamic therapy - ANSWER: Concrete goals focused on
improving worst symptoms, enhancing coping skills, and helping the client
understand their current life circumstances.
22. Focus of interpretations in brief psychodynamic therapy - ANSWER: Directed
toward present life circumstances and client behavior rather than historical
significance of feelings.
