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Chapter 01: Mental Health and Mental Illness
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Pollard: Varcarolis’s Canadian Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach, 3rd
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1. Which of the following is considered an Advanced Practic
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e Intervention?
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d. Individualizing nursing care plans WW WW WW
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Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses can further their
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education at a baccalaureate levelor at the graduate level (master’s d
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octorate) and become qualified to practise psychiatric mental health
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nursing at two levels – basic and advanced –
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developing on their education preparation. Prescriptive privileges are
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granted to master’s-
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prepared Nurse Practitioners (NPs) as they have taken additional advanced courses on prescribing me
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dication. Appropriate use of diagnostic tests must be completed aswell as having hospital admitting pr
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ivileges. Establishing therapeutic relationship, conducting mental health assessments (MSAs), and ind
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ividualizing nursing care plans are foundational psychiatric nursing skills. Therefore, they are conside
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red Basic-Level Interventions.
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2. Which has been identified as a priority for national plans and strategies in psychiatric mental heal
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th nursing in Canada?
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In early phases of strategic development, the Mental Health Commission of Canada identified cultur
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al diversity as a priority for national plans and strategies. Increasing cultural diversity within Canad
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a warrants deeper attention to culturally safe care and concern for the mental health consequences o
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f colonization and racism. An aging population and shortage of physicians are important to future tr
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ends. The role of the advanced practice nurse is continuing to evolve in psychiatric mental health n
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ursing in Canada. WW WW
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3. Which serves as the official guide for diagnosing psychiatric disorders?
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a. International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) WW WW WW WW
b. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) WW WW WW WW WW WW WW
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c. A behavioural health reference manual
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The first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was published by the Ameri
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can Psychiatric Association in 1952. Its purpose was to provide clinicians, educators, and researcher
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s with a common framework to understand and communicate about mental disorders. With a commo
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n understanding about mental disorders, researchers and clinicians could work together in their atte
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mpts to improve care for people with mental illness. The current DSM-
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5 serves as the official guide for diagnosing psychiatric disorders. The International Classification of
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Diseases (ICD) sets the global health information standard for mortality and morbidity statistics. Cli
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nicians and researchers use this classification system to define diseases, study disease patterns, moni
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tor outcomes, and subsequently allocate resources based on the prevalence of disease. The Canadian
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WInstitute for Health Information developed an enhanced version of the previous version, ICD-
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10 referred to as the ICD 10-
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CA period that version extends beyond defining and classifying diseases to describe conditions and s
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ituations that are not diseases, including for example, risk factors to health and psychosocial circums
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tances. A behavioral health reference manual and NurseOne online are not used as official guides for
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4. When locating the description and diagnostic criteria for anxiety disorders, which resource would ha
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ve the most complete information?
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a. Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) WW WW WW
b. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) WW WW WW WW WW WW WW
c. The ANA’s Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice
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d. International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
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5 details the diagnostic criteria for psychiatric clinical conditions and is the official guide for diagnosi
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ng psychiatric disorders. The other references are good resources but do not define the diagnostic crit
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eria.
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5. Which individual is demonstrating the highest level of resilience?
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a. An individual repressing their stressors who is having a difficult time coping wit
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h activities of daily living (ADLs)
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b. An individual who is in a depressed state after the death of their spouse
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c. An individual who lives in a shelter for 2 years after their home is destroyed by
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d. An individual who navigates and negotiates resources to support their well-being
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A characteristic of mental health increasingly being promoted as essential to the recovery process is
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resilience. Resilience is a process and outcome of complex, cultural systems, rather than as an indivi
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dual capacity to overcome adversity. In this way, when exposed to adversity, one’s resilience depen
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ds on the navigation and negotiation of resources that can support well-
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being. Resilience is closely associated with the process of adapting and helps people facing tragedies
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, loss, trauma, and severe stress. An individual who is repressing their stressors may need support fo
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r developing coping strategies. It is important for the individual who is in a depressed state after the
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death of their spouse to navigate and negotiate resources that can support their well-
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being (e.g., grief support or counselling). An individual living in a shelter needs immediate support
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and assistance when entering the shelter to navigate services and supports. Shelters are short-
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6. A multidisciplinary team is working with two groups of patients diagnosed with depression. One gro
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up of patients receives supportive interventions and psychotropic medication (e.g., antidepressants).
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The other group receives only psychotropic medication. Outcomes are measured for each group. Wh
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ich is being studied?
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a. Incidence
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Clinical epidemiology is a broad field that addresses studies of the natural history (or what happens i
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f there is no treatment and the problem is left to run its course) of an illness, studies of diagnostic s
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creening tests, and observational and experimental studies of interventions used to treat people with
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the illness or symptoms. Prevalence refers to numbers of new cases. Comorbidity refers to having
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more than one mental disorder at a time. Incidence refers to the number of new cases of mental dis
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orders in a healthy population within a given period.
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7. A category 5 tornado occurred in a community of 400 people, resulting in destruction of many hom
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es and businesses. In the 2 years after this disaster, 140 individuals were diagnosed with post-
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traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Which term best applies to these newly diagnosed individuals?
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a. Prevalence
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