Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Exam
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collaborating role of the mental health team members - Answer-PMH nurses, wherever they practice,
must plan and share with others to deliver maximum mental health services to clients and their
families--the purpose of partnering and collaborating with others is to make the best use of the different
abilities of mental health team members so that the client and the family receive the most effective
service available.
Interpersonal Competence Qualities - Answer-1) Respect for the client
2) Availability
3) Spontaneity
4) Hope
5) Acceptance
5) Sensitivity
6) Assertiveness
7) Vision
8) Accountability
9) Advocacy
10) Spirituality
11) Empathy
, 12) Critical thinking
13) Self-disclosure (avoid unless you are experienced and it is beneficial)
therapeutic alliance - Answer-a conscious, growth facilitating relationship between a helping person
and the client
assertive behavior - Answer-asking for what one wants or acting to get it in a way that respects other
people
spirituality - Answer-the search for meaning and purpose in life through a connection with others,
nature, and/or a belief in a higher power, is the core of each person's existence
empathy - Answer-the ability to feel what others feel and respond to and understand the experience of
others on their terms
critical thinking - Answer-purposeful, reasonable, reflective thinking that drives problem solving and
decision making and aims to make judgments based on evidence
burnout - Answer-name given to phenomenon, or condition in which health care professionals lose
their concern and feeling for their clients and come to treat them in a detached or even dehumanized
ways
therapeutic/healing milieu - Answer-safe and therapeutic environment in collaboration with patients,
families, and other health care clinicians
Mental Health Examination (MSE) - Answer-usually a standardized procedure in agencies that use it;
primary purpose is to gather objective data to be used to help, determine etiology, diagnosis, prognosis,
treatment and risk of violence; provides help in establishing the existence of delirium, amnestic, and
other cognitive disorders
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collaborating role of the mental health team members - Answer-PMH nurses, wherever they practice,
must plan and share with others to deliver maximum mental health services to clients and their
families--the purpose of partnering and collaborating with others is to make the best use of the different
abilities of mental health team members so that the client and the family receive the most effective
service available.
Interpersonal Competence Qualities - Answer-1) Respect for the client
2) Availability
3) Spontaneity
4) Hope
5) Acceptance
5) Sensitivity
6) Assertiveness
7) Vision
8) Accountability
9) Advocacy
10) Spirituality
11) Empathy
, 12) Critical thinking
13) Self-disclosure (avoid unless you are experienced and it is beneficial)
therapeutic alliance - Answer-a conscious, growth facilitating relationship between a helping person
and the client
assertive behavior - Answer-asking for what one wants or acting to get it in a way that respects other
people
spirituality - Answer-the search for meaning and purpose in life through a connection with others,
nature, and/or a belief in a higher power, is the core of each person's existence
empathy - Answer-the ability to feel what others feel and respond to and understand the experience of
others on their terms
critical thinking - Answer-purposeful, reasonable, reflective thinking that drives problem solving and
decision making and aims to make judgments based on evidence
burnout - Answer-name given to phenomenon, or condition in which health care professionals lose
their concern and feeling for their clients and come to treat them in a detached or even dehumanized
ways
therapeutic/healing milieu - Answer-safe and therapeutic environment in collaboration with patients,
families, and other health care clinicians
Mental Health Examination (MSE) - Answer-usually a standardized procedure in agencies that use it;
primary purpose is to gather objective data to be used to help, determine etiology, diagnosis, prognosis,
treatment and risk of violence; provides help in establishing the existence of delirium, amnestic, and
other cognitive disorders
