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TEST BANK Varcarolis Canadian Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing 3rd Edition By Pollard All Chapter 1 - 35 1. A staff nurse completes orientation to a psychiatric unit. Which of the following would thenurse expect as an advanced practice intervention? a. Conduct mental health assessments b. Prescribe psychotropic medication c. Establish therapeutic relationships d. Individualize nursing care plans ANSWER: B Prescriptive privileges are granted to master’s-prepared nurse practitioners who have taken special courses on prescribing medication; thus it is an advanced-practice intervention. The nurse prepared at the basic level is permitted to perform mental health assessments, establishrelationships, and provide individualized care planning. DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand (Comprehension) TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation MSC: Client Needs: Safe Effective Care Environment 2. When a nursing student expresses concerns about how mental health nurses “lose all theirnursing skills,” which of the following is the best response by the mental health nurse? a. “Psychiatric nurses practise in safer environments than other specialties. Nurse-to-patient ratios must be better because of the nature of the patients’ problems. ” b. “Psychiatric nurses use complex communication skills as well as critical thinking to solve multidimensional problems. I am challenged by those situations.” c. “That’s a misconception. Psychiatric nurses frequently use hightechnologymonitoring equipment and manage complex intravenous therapies.” d. “Psychiatric nurses do not have to deal with as much pain and suffering asmedical–surgical nurses do. That appeals to me.”

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Varcarolis Canadian Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
3rd Edition By Pollard All Chapter 1 - 35

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