PSYCHIATRIC ASSESSMENT FOR THE PSYCHIATRIC-
MENTAL HEALTH NURSE PRACTITIONER REVIEW WEEK
1&2QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT VERIED ANSWERS GRADED
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Match the ethical principles to the scenario it represents: The PMHNP has overbooked her
sessions today, so she asks the RN who works in her office to conduct one of her phone therapy
sessions today. - - ANS✔️--Responsibility and Accountability for Practice (provision 4)
Rationale: This is an unethical scenario. The PMHNP must understand the scope of other team
members' practice in order to delegate appropriately. Conducting a counseling session is outside
of the RN's scope of practice.
Match the ethical principles to the scenario it represents: The PMHNP is a member of the ANA
and NAMI and regularly participates in workgroups that seek to expand access to care for
healthcare consumers with PMH disorders. - - ANS✔️--Collaboration to meet health needs
(provision 8)
,Rationale: The PMHNP promotes community, national, and international efforts to meet health
needs through collaboration with other healthcare professionals to promote prevention,
treatment, and recovery.
Match the ethical principles to the scenario it represents: The PMHNP is sharing sexually
explicit memes with a client that she saw earlier today in a group session. - - ANS✔️--Advocacy
for the Healthcare Consumer (provision 3)
This is an unethical scenario. The PMHNP recognizes the power differential in the therapeutic
relationship and understands that any sort of sexual activity or intimacies with current clients,
their close family members, guardians, or significant others is unethical.
Match the ethical principles to the scenario it represents: The PMHNP takes time for daily
meditation to improve mindfulness and ease stress. - - ANS✔️--Duties to Self and Others
(provision 5)
Rationale: The PMHNP is committed to practicing self-care, managing stress, and maintaining
supportive relationships to meet personal needs outside of therapeutic relationships.
match the practice setting with the correct scenario: A global pandemic limits face-to-face
mental health visits, the PMHNP determines that the client requires ongoing mental health
, treatment. The PMHNP arranges to meet with the client via weekly interactive video sessions - -
ANS✔️--Telehealth
Rationale: Telehealth services utilize telecommunication technology to deliver treatment to
clients
match the practice setting with the correct scenario: Following hospitalization, the client returns
home but commutes to a treatment center for 4 hours a day 5 days per week for ongoing therapy,
medication management, and psychoeducation - - ANS✔️--Partial Hospitalization/Intensive
Outpatient Treatment
Rationale: Partial Hospitalization/Intensive Outpatient Treatment occurs when a client receives
intensive therapy on an outpatient basis, often used when a client does not require 24-hour care
but still require intense treatment
match the practice setting with the correct scenario: Over the course of 2 months, the client's
condition improves. She is discharged from intensive outpatient treatment and begins weekly
appointments with the PMHNP at the PMHNP's clinic - - ANS✔️--Community-Based Care
Rationale: Community-based care is provided in a non-hospital community setting