PSYCHIATRIC ASSESSMENT FOR THE
PSYCHIATRIC-MENTAL HEALTH NURSE
PRACTITIONER REVIEW |WEEKS 5-6 COVERED
WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
.17 standards of professional performance - Answer-Guide PMHNP practice:
Standard 1: Assessment
Standard 2: Diagnosis
Standard 3: Outcomes Identification
Standard 4: Planning
Standard 5: Implementation
Standard 6: Evaluation
Standard 7: Ethics
Standard 8: Cultural Humanity
Standard 9: Communication
Standard 10: Professional Collaboration
Standard 11: Leadership
Standard 12: Education
Standard 13: Evidence-Based Practice and Research
Standard 14: Quality of Practice
Standard 15: Professional Practice Evaluation
Standard 16: Resource Utilization
Standard 17: Environmental Health
,.1913, Effie Jane Taylor developed - Answer-the first nurse-organized training course for psychiatric nursing
at Johns Hopkins Hospital
(before early psychiatric nurses were trained by physicians)
.1954 - Answer--the first graduate program in psychiatric nursing was established at Rutgers University by
Hildegarde Peplau
• to prepare nurse therapists.
-The first advanced practice nursing role was the psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialist (PMHCNS)
role.
.1965 - Answer-Loretta Ford, RN and Henry Silver MD introduce the nurse practitioner role.
.1973 ANA first published: - Answer-Standards of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Practice
.1980s states began to grant: - Answer-prescriptive authority to advanced practice registered nurse (APRN),
adding medication prescribing and management to the traditional therapy role of the psychiatric mental
health (PMH) APRN.
.2000s these exams were developed: - Answer-Certification exams for adult and family psychiatric mental
health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) developed.
-These exams were retired in 2015 when psychiatric certification exams were combined to a single
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (Across the Lifespan) Certification (PMHNP-BC).
.ANA Code of Ethics: anticipatory guidance competency - Answer-ANA Standards and Scope: Standard 5B:
Health Teaching & Promotion
-An educated professional nurse is aware of normal developmental and situational threats to wellness and
can educate healthcare consumers to avoid them.
• Example: Moving a toddler from a crib to a bed can prevent injury associated with climbing out of the crib
at that developmental age.
, .ANA Code of Ethics: How should the nurse respond to the discovery of human trafficking in his or her
practice? - Answer-ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 8
-Nurses must "bring attention to human rights violations in all settings and contexts. . . . The nursing
profession must respond when these violations are encountered" (ANA, 2015b, p. 33).
.ANA Code of Ethics: the art of nursing is based on? - Answer-caring and respect for human dignity
.ANA Code of Ethics: the fundamental principle of and attitude that the professional nurse must have as
outlined in Provision 1 - Answer-ANA Code of Ethics: Provision 1
-"the nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique attributes of
every person" (ANA, 2015b, p. 1).
.Code of Ethics - Answer-provides guidance to nurses about ethical behavior and mandates a minimum
standard of practice
-nine provisions within the Code
• Within the nine provisions, three groupings exist
• specific applications have been developed for PMHNP practice
.Code of Ethics 9 Provisions - Answer--Respect for the Individual
• Provision 1: The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique
attributes of every person.
-Commitment to the Healthcare Consumer
• Provision 2: The nurse's primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group,
community, or population.
-Advocacy for the Healthcare Consumer
• Provision 3: The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient.