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| EDITIONBYVARCAROLIS)
, TEST | BANK: | ESSENTIALS | OF |PSYCHIATRIC |MENTALHEALTH | NURSING | (3RD
| EDITIONBYVARCAROLIS)
Table of Contents | |
Table of Contents
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Chapter 01: Practicing the Science and the Art of Psychiatric Nursing
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Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Illness
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Chapter 03: Theories and Therapies
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Chapter 04: Biological Basis for Understanding Psychopharmacology
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Chapter 05: Settings for Psychiatric Care
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Chapter 06: Legal and Ethical Basis for Practice
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Chapter 07: Nursing Process and QSEN: The Foundation for Safe and Effective Care Chapter
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08: Communication Skills: Medium for All Nursing Practice
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Chapter 09: Therapeutic Relationships and the Clinical Interview
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Chapter 10: Trauma and Stress-Related Disorders
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Chapter 11: Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
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Chapter 12: Somatic System Disorders and Dissociative Disorders
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Chapter 13: Personality
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Disorders Chapter 14: Eating
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Disorders
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Chapter 15: Mood Disorders: Depression
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Chapter 16: Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
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Chapter 17: Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders and Other Psychotic Disorders Chapter
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18: Neurocognitive Disorders
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Chapter 19: Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
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Chapter 20: Crisis and Mass Disaster
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Chapter 21: Child, Partner, and Elder ViolenceChapter 22:
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Sexual Violence
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Chapter 23: Suicidal Thoughts and BehaviorChapter 24:
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Anger, Aggression, and Violence
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Chapter 25: Care for the Dying and Those Who Grieve Chapter
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26: Children and Adolescents
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Chapter 27: Adults | |
Chapter 28: Older Adults
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Test Bank: Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (3rd Edition by Varcarolis)
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Chapter 01: Practicing the Science and the Art of Psychiatric Nursing MULTIPLE
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CHOICE
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1. Which outcome, focused on recovery, would be expected in the plan of care for a patient
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living in the community and diagnosed with serious and persistent mental illness? Within 3
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months, the patient will: a. deny suicidal ideation.
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b. report a sense of well-being. | | | |
c. take medications as prescribed.
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d. attend clinic appointments on time. | | | |
ANS: B |
Recovery emphasizes managing symptoms, reducing psychosocial disability, and improving
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role performance.
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The goal of recovery is to empower the individual with mental illness to achieve a sense of
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meaning and satisfaction in life and to function at the highest possible level of wellness. The
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incorrect options focus on the classic medical model rather than recovery.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Application (Applying) REF: 2
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TOP: Nursing Process: Outcomes Identification
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MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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2. In the shift-change report, an off-going nurse criticizes a patient who wears heavy
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makeup. Which comment by the nurse who receives the report best demonstrates
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advocacy?
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a. This is a psychiatric hospital. Craziness is what we are all about.
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b. Lets all show acceptance of this patient by wearing lots of makeup too.
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c. Your comments are inconsiderate and inappropriate. Keep the report objective.
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d. Our patients need our help to learn behaviors that will help them get along insociety.
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ANS: D
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Accepting patients needs for self-expression and seeking to teach skills that will contribute to
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their well-being demonstrate respect and are important parts of advocacy. The on- coming
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nurse needs to take action to ensure that others are not prejudiced against the patient.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Humor can be appropriate within the privacy of a shift report but not at the expense of
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
respect for patients. Judging the off-going nurse in a critical way will create conflict.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Nurses must show compassion for each other.
| | | | | |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Application (Applying) REF: 8
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TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation MSC: NCLEX: Safe, Effective Care Environment 3. A
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nurse assesses a newly admitted patient diagnosed with major depressive disorder. Which
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statement is an example of attending?
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a. We all have stress in life. Being in a psychiatric hospital isnt the end of the world.
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b. Tell me why you felt you had to be hospitalized to receive treatment for yourdepression.
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c. You will feel better after we get some antidepressant medication started for you.
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d. Id like to sit with you a while so you may feel more comfortable talking with me.
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ANS: D |
Attending is a technique that demonstrates the nurses commitment to the relationship and
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reduces feelings of isolation. This technique shows respect for the patient and demonstrates
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caring. Generalizations, probing, and false reassurances are non-therapeutic.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Application (Applying) REF: 8
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TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation MSC: NCLEX: Psychosocial Integrity 4. A patient is
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hospitalized for depression and suicidal ideation after their spouse asks for a divorce.
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Select the nurses most caring comment.
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a. Lets discuss some means of coping other than suicide when you have these feelings.
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b. I understand why youre so depressed. When I got divorced, I was devastated too.
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c. You should forget about your marriage and move on with yourlife.
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d. How did you get so depressed that hospitalization wasnecessary?
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, TEST | BANK: | ESSENTIALS | OF |PSYCHIATRIC |MENTALHEALTH | NURSING | (3RD
| EDITIONBYVARCAROLIS)
Table of Contents | |
Table of Contents
| |
Chapter 01: Practicing the Science and the Art of Psychiatric Nursing
| | | | | | | | | |
Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Illness
| | | | | | |
Chapter 03: Theories and Therapies
| | | |
Chapter 04: Biological Basis for Understanding Psychopharmacology
| | | | | |
Chapter 05: Settings for Psychiatric Care
| | | | | |
Chapter 06: Legal and Ethical Basis for Practice
| | | | | | |
Chapter 07: Nursing Process and QSEN: The Foundation for Safe and Effective Care Chapter
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
08: Communication Skills: Medium for All Nursing Practice
| | | | | | | |
Chapter 09: Therapeutic Relationships and the Clinical Interview
| | | | | | |
Chapter 10: Trauma and Stress-Related Disorders
| | | | | |
Chapter 11: Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
| | | | | | |
Chapter 12: Somatic System Disorders and Dissociative Disorders
| | | | | | | |
Chapter 13: Personality
| |
Disorders Chapter 14: Eating
| | | |
Disorders
|
Chapter 15: Mood Disorders: Depression
| | | |
Chapter 16: Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
| | | | |
Chapter 17: Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders and Other Psychotic Disorders Chapter
| | | | | | | | |
18: Neurocognitive Disorders
| | |
Chapter 19: Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
| | | | |
Chapter 20: Crisis and Mass Disaster
| | | | | |
Chapter 21: Child, Partner, and Elder ViolenceChapter 22:
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Sexual Violence
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Chapter 23: Suicidal Thoughts and BehaviorChapter 24:
| | | | | |
Anger, Aggression, and Violence
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Chapter 25: Care for the Dying and Those Who Grieve Chapter
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26: Children and Adolescents
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Chapter 27: Adults | |
Chapter 28: Older Adults
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, TEST | BANK: | ESSENTIALS | OF |PSYCHIATRIC |MENTALHEALTH | NURSING | (3RD
| EDITIONBYVARCAROLIS)
Test Bank: Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (3rd Edition by Varcarolis)
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Chapter 01: Practicing the Science and the Art of Psychiatric Nursing MULTIPLE
| | | | | | | | | | |
CHOICE
|
1. Which outcome, focused on recovery, would be expected in the plan of care for a patient
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
living in the community and diagnosed with serious and persistent mental illness? Within 3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
months, the patient will: a. deny suicidal ideation.
| | | | | | | |
b. report a sense of well-being. | | | |
c. take medications as prescribed.
| | |
d. attend clinic appointments on time. | | | |
ANS: B |
Recovery emphasizes managing symptoms, reducing psychosocial disability, and improving
| | | | | | | |
role performance.
| |
The goal of recovery is to empower the individual with mental illness to achieve a sense of
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
meaning and satisfaction in life and to function at the highest possible level of wellness. The
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
incorrect options focus on the classic medical model rather than recovery.
| | | | | | | | | | |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Application (Applying) REF: 2
| | | | | |
TOP: Nursing Process: Outcomes Identification
| | | | |
MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance
| | | | | |
2. In the shift-change report, an off-going nurse criticizes a patient who wears heavy
| | | | | | | | | | | |
makeup. Which comment by the nurse who receives the report best demonstrates
| | | | | | | | | | | |
advocacy?
|
a. This is a psychiatric hospital. Craziness is what we are all about.
| | | | | | | | | | |
b. Lets all show acceptance of this patient by wearing lots of makeup too.
| | | | | | | | | | | |
c. Your comments are inconsiderate and inappropriate. Keep the report objective.
| | | | | | | | |
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| EDITIONBYVARCAROLIS)
d. Our patients need our help to learn behaviors that will help them get along insociety.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
ANS: D
| |
Accepting patients needs for self-expression and seeking to teach skills that will contribute to
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
their well-being demonstrate respect and are important parts of advocacy. The on- coming
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
nurse needs to take action to ensure that others are not prejudiced against the patient.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Humor can be appropriate within the privacy of a shift report but not at the expense of
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
respect for patients. Judging the off-going nurse in a critical way will create conflict.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Nurses must show compassion for each other.
| | | | | |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Application (Applying) REF: 8
| | | | | |
TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation MSC: NCLEX: Safe, Effective Care Environment 3. A
| | | | | | | | | | |
nurse assesses a newly admitted patient diagnosed with major depressive disorder. Which
| | | | | | | | | | | |
statement is an example of attending?
| | | | | |
a. We all have stress in life. Being in a psychiatric hospital isnt the end of the world.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
b. Tell me why you felt you had to be hospitalized to receive treatment for yourdepression.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
c. You will feel better after we get some antidepressant medication started for you.
| | | | | | | | | | | |
d. Id like to sit with you a while so you may feel more comfortable talking with me.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
ANS: D |
Attending is a technique that demonstrates the nurses commitment to the relationship and
| | | | | | | | | | | |
reduces feelings of isolation. This technique shows respect for the patient and demonstrates
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
caring. Generalizations, probing, and false reassurances are non-therapeutic.
| | | | | | | |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Application (Applying) REF: 8
| | | | | |
TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation MSC: NCLEX: Psychosocial Integrity 4. A patient is
| | | | | | | | | | |
hospitalized for depression and suicidal ideation after their spouse asks for a divorce.
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Select the nurses most caring comment.
| | | | |
a. Lets discuss some means of coping other than suicide when you have these feelings.
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
b. I understand why youre so depressed. When I got divorced, I was devastated too.
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
c. You should forget about your marriage and move on with yourlife.
| | | | | | | | | |
d. How did you get so depressed that hospitalization wasnecessary?
| | | | | | | |
