NSG 526 EXAM 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

NSG 526 EXAM 1
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

Question 1.
-Associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupation, or other important
activities
-Significant disturbance in cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a
dysfunction in the psychological, biological or developmental processes underlying
mental functioning

Correct Answer: What is considered a mental disorder per the DSM5?


Question 2.
-Define NP roles
-Identify competencies assumed to be held by all NPs who function in a particular role
-Varies broadly from state to state

Correct Answer: Purpose of Scope of Practice?


Question 3.
-Authoritative statements regarding the quality and type of practice that should be
provided
-Provide a way to judge the nature of care provided
-Reflect the expectation for the care that should be provided to clients with various
illnesses
-Reflect professional agreement focused on the minimum levels of acceptable
performance
-Can be used to legally describe the standard of care that must be met by a provider
-May be precise protocols that must be followed or more general guidelines that
recommend actions

Correct Answer: Purpose of Standard of Practice?


Question 4.
Understand the patient's illness to evaluate the effect on their lives and create a
beginning diagnosis and treatment plan

Correct Answer: Purpose of Psychiatric Interview?


Question 5.
-Create a relationship with client by being calming, warm, understanding, kind,
respectful, concerned and focused
-Able to help patient better if a therapeutic alliance was formed

Correct Answer: What is a Therapeutic Alliance?

,Question 6.
-Therapist and patient work collaboratively to create therapeutic change through an
affectionate bond
-Agreement on goals of therapy
-The therapist's ability to be empathetic and involved in therapy -The ability of the
patient to do the work of therapy

Correct Answer: Important components of a therapeutic alliance?


Question 7.
Holistic treatment that relies on the nurse's processing of that the patient is
experiencing

Correct Answer: What is Psychotherapy?


Question 8.
-Her application of Sullivan's theory of anxiety to nursing practice -Described the effects
of different levels of anxiety (mild, moderate, severe, and panic) on perception and
learning
-Promoted interventions to lower anxiety, with the aim of improving clients' abilities to
think and function at more satisfactory levels

Correct Answer: Peplau's most universal contribution to PMHNPs?


Question 9.
-Observation, interpretation, and intervention
(The PMHNP observes and listens to the client, developing impressions about the client's
situation)

Correct Answer: Per Peplau, skills of a MH nurse?


Question 10.
-The processes by which the nurse helps clients make positive changes in their health
care status and well-being
-Believed that illness offered a unique opportunity for experiential learning, personal
growth, and improved coping strategies and that PMH-APRNs play a unique role in
facilitating this growth

Correct Answer: What is the main idea for Peplau's Theory of Interpersonal
Relationships?


Question 11.
-Silence
-Accepting
-Giving recognition

, -Giving information
-Offering self
-Giving broad openings
-Offering general leads
-Placing the event in time or sequence -Making observation
-Encouraging description of perceptions
-Encouraging comparison
-Reflection
-Exploring
-Seeking clarification
-Presenting reality
-Voicing doubt
-Verbalizing the implied
-Attempting to translate into feelings
-Encouraging formulation of a plan of action -Summarizing

Correct Answer: Therapeutic Communication Techniques?


Question 12.
-Reassuring
-Approving
-Disapproving
-Rejecting
-Advising
-Probing
-Challenging
-Defending
-Requesting an explanation
-Indication the existence of an external source -Belittling feelings
-Making stereotypical comments
-Giving literal responses -Introducing an unrelated topic

Correct Answer: Non-Therapeutic Techniques?


Question 13.
-Orientation
-Identification
-Exploitation -Resolution

Correct Answer: Four Phases of the Nursing Model?


Question 14.
-The PMHNP addresses individual and family problems with the patient
-Assess identified problems during the orientation phase
-Determines the underlying healthcare issues with the patient