Managed care
NP_EXAM QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
Evidence-based
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Crisis intervention - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Correct Answer:
Evidence-based
Akathisia, akinesia, dystonia, and tardive dyskinesia are all side
effects considered to affect which system:
Evidence-based practice is typically used in the nursing process.
lymphatic
The best available evidence is applied in order to improve the
skeletal quality of
endocrine clinical judgments.
muscular - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Correct Answer:
muscular Preventative factors are those that protect the individual from
a disorder. Which of the following would be considered a social
preventative factor?
The muscular system is responsible for extrapyramidal side
effects. The best way to prevent involuntary muscular healthy nutritional status
movements that could be irreversible is to monitor carefully. If good self-esteem
symptoms are present, it can be treated by reducing the
healthy ego defenses
current dose, or changing the patient to an atypical agent.
higher level of education - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Correct
answer:
The gathering and interpretation of data based on valid
observed and patient-reported information, in addition to higher level of education
research-derived evidence, is known as which of the following?
,Preventative factors are those that protect the individual from Patient homes
a disorder. They are coping mechanisms or resources that Work sites
facilitate a healthy response to stress. Social preventative
factors include: low-stress occupations; higher socioeconomic Mental health clinics
status; and a higher level of education. Senior centers
Schools/colleges
Which of the following would probably not be considered as Clinics for the homeless
having a partnership with
community-based mental health care? What action would be appropriate for documenting a patient's
Crisis centers care?
Insurance companies Charting opinions
Group homes Charting in ink
Shelters - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Correct Answer: Charting events before they happen
Insurance companies Charting generalizations - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Correct
Answer:
Charting in ink
Insurance companies would not be the typical partner with
mental health care. This is the only appropriate charting action. You would not
Such places could include: chart the following: opinions that are not supported by facts or
defame patients, chart events before they happen, chart
Crisis centers generalizations, suppositions or pat phrases, obliterate, erase,
Group homes alter or destroy a record, or leave blank spaces. If an incident
Shelters report is filed, do not note it in the chart.
, stop questioning the client altogether
Relationships between people are each unique. However, all ask more direct questions focused on one specific behavior or
relationships can be categorized into three major types. They symptom
are:
ask general multiple choice questions - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
social, intimate, and therapeutic Correct Answer:
social, intimate, and empathetic ask more direct questions focused on one specific behavior or
social, warm, and empathetic symptom
public, private, and therapeutic - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
Correct Answer: If the client cannot organize his or her thoughts, or has
social, intimate, and therapeutic difficulty answering open-ended questions, the nurse should
use more direct questions to obtain information. Questions
need to be clear simple, and focused on one specific behavior
The three categories of relationship types are: social, intimate, or symptom; they should not cause the client to remember
and therapeutic. Social relationships are primarily for several things at once.
friendship. Intimate relationships involve two people who are
emotionally committed to each other. The therapeutic
relationship focuses on the needs, experiences, feelings, and The study of the distribution, incidence, prevalence, and
ideas of the client only. duration of a disease is known by which of the following terms?
pharmacokinetics
If the client cannot organize his or her thoughts, or has etiology
difficulty answering open-ended questions, the nurse should do epidemiology
which of the following?
pathogenesis - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Correct Answer:
continue to ask the open-ended questions until the client can
epidemiology
answer
, Epidemiology is the study of the distribution, incidence, Which of the following physical conditions could potentially
prevalence, and duration of a disease. Etiology refers to cause cause a patient
or origination of a disease. Pathogenesis is the manner of to exhibit potential psychiatric symptoms such as confusion?
development of the disease. Pharmacokinetics refers to the
movement of the drug into, through and out of the body. Urinary tract infections
Chest pain
Which of the following would not be considered a common side Thyroid disorders
effect of paroxetine? Both A and C - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Correct Answer:
Somnolence Both A and C
GI upset
Headache When a patient is having an admission assessment, there
Hypokalemia - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Correct Answer: should be a physical examination performed prior to the
psychiatric assessment. Such problems as urinary tract
Hypokalemia infections, especially with the older adults can cause the
patient to exhibit symptoms of confusion, among other things.
Some of the more common side effects of paroxetine would be
considered: Which of the following does the nurse typically work with to
Somnolence help determine the
GI upset potential outcomes and goals for the patient?
Headache Family
Dizziness Housekeeping
Insomnia Members of the interdisciplinary team