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,TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Chapter 01 Mental Health and Mental Illness
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Chapter 02 Theories and Therapies Approach
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Chapter 03 Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology
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Chapter 04 Treatment Settings
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Chapter 05 Cultural Implications
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Chapter 06 Legal and Ethical Considerations
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Chapter 07 The Nursing Process and Standards of Care
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Chapter 08 Therapeutic Relationships
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Chapter 09 Therapeutic Communication
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Chapter 10 Stress Responses and Stress Management
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Chapter 11 Childhood and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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Chapter 12 Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
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Chapter 13 Bipolar and Related Disorders
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Chapter 14 Depressive Disorders
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Chapter 15 Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
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Chapter 16 Trauma, Stressor-Related, and Dissociative Disorders
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Chapter 17 Somatic Symptom Disorders
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Chapter 18 Eating and Feeding Disorders
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Chapter 19 Sleep–Wake Disorders
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Chapter 20 Sexual Dysfunctions, Gender Dysphoria, and Paraphilic Disorders
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Chapter 21 Impulse Control Disorders
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Chapter 22 Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
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Chapter 23 Neurocognitive Disorders
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Chapter 24 Personality Disorders
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Chapter 25 Suicide and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
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Chapter 26 Crisis and Disaster
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Chapter 27 Anger, Aggression, and Violence
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Chapter 28 Child, Older Adult, and Intimate Partner Violence
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Chapter 29 Sexual Assault
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Chapter 30 Dying, Death, and Grieving
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Chapter 31 Older Adults
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Chapter 32 Serious Mental Illness
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Chapter 33 Forensic Nursing
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Chapter 34 Therapeutic Groups
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Chapter 35 Family Interventions
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Chapter 36 Integrative Care
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, Test Bank - Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 9e
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Chapter 01: Mental Health and Mental Illness
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Halter: Varcarolis’Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: A ClinicalApproach,
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9th Edition
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MULTIPLE CHOICE v




1. The scope of practiced for an advanced nurse practitioner would include which intervention?
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a. Conducting a mental health assessment. v v v v




b. Prescribing psychotropic medication. v v




c. Establishing a therapeutic relationship. v v v




d. Individualizing a nursing care plan. v v v v




ANSWER: B v




In most states, prescriptive privileges are granted to master’s-prepared nurse practitioners and
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clinical nurse specialists who have taken special courses on prescribing medication. The nurse
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prepared at the basic level is permitted to perform mental health assessments, establish
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v relationships, and provide individualized care planning. v v v v v




PTS: 1 vv v DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand (Comprehension) v v v




TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation
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2. A nursing student expresses concerns that mental health nurses “lose all their clinical nursing
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skills.” Select the best response by the mental health nurse.
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a. “Psychiatric nurses practice in safer environments than other specialties. Nurse-to- v v v v v v v v v




client ratios must be better because of the nature of the clients’ problems.”
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b. “Psychiatric nurses use complex communication skills as well as critical thinkingto v v v v v v v v v v v




v solve multidimensional problems. I am challenged by those situations.”
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c. “That’s a misconception. Psychiatric nurses frequently use high technology
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monitoring equipment and manage complex intravenous therapies.”
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d. “Psychiatric nurses do not have to deal with as much pain and suffering as v v v v v v v v v v v v v




medical–surgical nurses do. That appeals to me.”
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ANSWER: v B
The practice of psychiatric nursing requires a different set of skills than medical–surgical nursing,
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v though there is substantial overlap. Psychiatric nurses must be able to help clients with medical
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v as well as mental health problems, reflecting the holistic perspective these nursesmust have.
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v Nurse–client ratios and workloads in psychiatric settings have increased, just like other
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, Test Bank - Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 9e
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v specialties. Psychiatric nursing involves clinical practice, not just documentation.
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Psychosocial pain and suffering are as real as physical pain and suffering.
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PTS: 1 vv v DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) v v v




TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation
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3. When a new bill introduced in Congress reduces funding for care of persons diagnosed with
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v mental illness, a group of nurses write letters to their elected representatives in opposition to
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v the legislation. Which role have the nurses fulfilled?
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a. Recovery
b. Attending

c. Advocacy
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