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NURS 126 Unit 1 – Psychiatric Nursing Review 2026 | Actual
Exam Questions & Complete Study Guide
a core mental profession that employs a purposeful use of self as its art and a wide
range of nursing, psychosocial, and neurological theories and research evidence as
its science - ANSWER-What is psychiatric-mental health nursing?
individuals with psychiatric and substance abuse disorders - ANSWER-Who does
psychiatric nursing treat?
Evidence based practice (EBP) - ANSWER-What is using treatment approaches to
medical and mental illness that are scientifically grounded or evidence based?
Clinical decision making that synthesizes the best available research evidence,
clinical expertise, and patient preferences - ANSWER-What is evidence based
practice?
It is a wide gap between the best evidence treatments and their effective translation
into practice - ANSWER-What is the Research-Practice gap?
continued research on how best to apply the findings of clinically relevant issues -
ANSWER-What is needed for the Research-Practice gap?
Evidence based practice - ANSWER-What is striving to decrease the Research-
Practice gap?
Recovery model and EBP model - ANSWER-What are the methods of treatment
approaches?
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Social - ANSWER-Is the Recovery model more of a social model or a medical model
of disability?
from one of illness and disease to an emphasis on rehabilitation and recovery -
ANSWER-What does the focus shift from in the Recovery model?
Managing symptoms, coping facilitating recovery, and building resilience -
ANSWER-What does the recovery model increases consumer's ability to do?
Recovery Model - ANSWER-What method of treatment approaches views consumers
as partners?
Consumer and family driven - ANSWER-In the Recovery model, mental health care
is:
1990 "Decade of the Brain" - ANSWER-When did the EBP Model come about?
Medical model - ANSWER-Is the REBP model more of a social model or a medical
model of disability?
-Scientific evidence for psychologic and sociologic treatments
-Neurobiology of psychiatric disorders
-Psychopharmacology - ANSWER-What is the EBP model?
Increases - ANSWER-Does Evidence Based Practice Model increase or decrease the
gap between research and practice?
NURS 126 Unit 1 – Psychiatric Nursing Review 2026 | Actual
Exam Questions & Complete Study Guide
a core mental profession that employs a purposeful use of self as its art and a wide
range of nursing, psychosocial, and neurological theories and research evidence as
its science - ANSWER-What is psychiatric-mental health nursing?
individuals with psychiatric and substance abuse disorders - ANSWER-Who does
psychiatric nursing treat?
Evidence based practice (EBP) - ANSWER-What is using treatment approaches to
medical and mental illness that are scientifically grounded or evidence based?
Clinical decision making that synthesizes the best available research evidence,
clinical expertise, and patient preferences - ANSWER-What is evidence based
practice?
It is a wide gap between the best evidence treatments and their effective translation
into practice - ANSWER-What is the Research-Practice gap?
continued research on how best to apply the findings of clinically relevant issues -
ANSWER-What is needed for the Research-Practice gap?
Evidence based practice - ANSWER-What is striving to decrease the Research-
Practice gap?
Recovery model and EBP model - ANSWER-What are the methods of treatment
approaches?
, Page 2 of 7
Social - ANSWER-Is the Recovery model more of a social model or a medical model
of disability?
from one of illness and disease to an emphasis on rehabilitation and recovery -
ANSWER-What does the focus shift from in the Recovery model?
Managing symptoms, coping facilitating recovery, and building resilience -
ANSWER-What does the recovery model increases consumer's ability to do?
Recovery Model - ANSWER-What method of treatment approaches views consumers
as partners?
Consumer and family driven - ANSWER-In the Recovery model, mental health care
is:
1990 "Decade of the Brain" - ANSWER-When did the EBP Model come about?
Medical model - ANSWER-Is the REBP model more of a social model or a medical
model of disability?
-Scientific evidence for psychologic and sociologic treatments
-Neurobiology of psychiatric disorders
-Psychopharmacology - ANSWER-What is the EBP model?
Increases - ANSWER-Does Evidence Based Practice Model increase or decrease the
gap between research and practice?
