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Chapter 05: r r Settings for Psychiatric Care
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Chapter 06: r Legal and Ethical Basis for Practice
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Chapter 09: r r Therapeutic Relationships and the Clinical Interview
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Chapter 10: r r Trauma and Stress-Related Disorders
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Chapter 11: r r Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
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6. A nurse says, When I was in school, I learned to call upset patients by name to get their attention
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; ho wever, I read a descriptive research study that says that this approach does not work. I plan to
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rstop call ing patients by name. Which statement is the best appraisal of this nurses comment?
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a. One descriptive research study rarely provides enough evidence to change practice.
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b. Staff nurses apply new research findings only with the helpp from clinical nurse specialists.
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c. New research findings should be incorporated into clinical algorithms before using them in practic
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e.
d. The nurse misinterpreted the results of the study. Classic tenets of practice do not change.
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Descriptive research findings provide evidence for practice but must be viewed in relation to other s
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tud ies before practice changes. One study is not enough. Descriptive studies are low on the hierarchy of evide
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nce. Clinical algorithms use flow charts to manage problems and do not specify one response t
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o a clinical problem. Classic tenets of practice should change as research findings provide evidence
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis (Analyzing) REF: 3
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TOP: Nursing Process: Evaluation MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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7. Two nursing students discuss career plans after graduation. One student wants to enter psychiatric
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nur sing. The other student asks, Why would you want to be a psychiatric nurse? All they do is tal
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k. You will lose your skills. Select the best response by the student interested in psychiatric nursing.
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a. Psychiatric nurses practice in safer environments than other specialties. Nurse- r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r
to- patient ratios must be better because of the nature of patients problems.
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b. Psychiatric nurses use complex communication skills, as well as critical thinking, to solve multidim
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ensi onal problems. Im challenged by those situations.
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c. I think I will be good in the mental health field. I do not like clinical rotations in school, so I
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do n ot want to continue them after I graduate.
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d. Psychiatric nurses do not have to deal with as much pain and suffering as medical surgical nurse
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s. That appeals to me.
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ANS: B r r
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