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1. A newly graduated nurse practitioner (NP) wants to A. The State Statues on
open a private psychiatric practice in her hometown. Nursing or Advanced
She wants to find out about the laws that cover her Nursing Practice
responsibility and the legal liability that this practice
will encounter for her as an independent psychiatric
nurse practitioner. Her best source of information is:
A. The State Statues on Nursing or Advanced
Nursing Practice
B. Her city statutes
C. Local Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners in practice
D. The American Academy of Nurse practitioners
2. Which of the following best depicts the Psychiatric- A. Attending a town hall
Mental Health Nurse Practitioner in a grassroots meeting to seek timely
mental health advocacy role? police response to rising
A. Attending a town hall meeting to seek timely domestic violence crisis
, police response to rising domestic violence crisis calls.
calls.
B. Working on the campaign of an individual
running for the state senate.
C. Assisting with depression screening at a health
fair in a local shopping mall
D. Meeting states legislators during RN lobbying
day organized by the state nurses' association
3. During a medication follow-up appointment at D. Ask the student if she
student mental health clinic, a 20 y/o college will agree to voluntary
sophomore with depression and history of binge admission and arrange
drinking disclosed that she has been struggling with involuntary admission is
recurrent intrusive thoughts of overdose. She necessary
recently broke up with her boyfriend when she
learned that he was sleeping with her closest
girlfriend. She admits taking a handful of her
sertraline prescribed by the Psychiatric-mental
Health Nurse Practitioner last weekend and was
frustrated that it only made her sleep for a day. She's
angry and ambivalent about the future, unwilling to
make any promise not to harm herself, and has made
veiled threats to "pay back both of them for
cheating" (referring to her ex-boyfriend and
, girlfriend). What is the most appropriate intervention
at this juncture?
A. Counsel the student that she would regret hurting
herself and can move beyond this broken
relationship
B. Ask the student to promise
4. Per the Health Insurance Portability and B. The NP transmits
Accountability Act (HIPAA), a nurse practitioner protected health
(NP) who is in an independent, single practitioner information in electronic
practice is considered a "Covered Entity" because: forms
A. Writers information and generates protected
health information
B. The NP transmits protected health information in
electronic forms
C. May accidentally release protected health
information
D. Maintains charts with patient information that
contains protected health information
5. The Nurse Practitioner (NP) attends a local meeting D. Advocating for the role
where allocation of resources for healthcare will be and value of the Nurse
discussed. One of the stakeholders has a pamphlet Practitioner.
that describes the types of healthcare providers
available to help persons in need of health care. The
, NP notices that Nurse Practitioners are labeled as
"Paraprofessionals". In the meeting, the NP askes the
organization responsible for the pamphlet why they
have identified the Nurse Practitioners as
paraprofessionals when a Nurse Practitioner is by
law working as 85-90% of the same capacity as a
Medical Doctor. The NP goes on to explain what a
Nurse Practitioner does in various areas of practice.
This is an example of:
A. Promoting nurse practitioners in the community
B. Public education on the NP scope and standards
of practice
C. Correcting misinformation that deliberately
misleads the public
D. Advocating for the role and value of the Nurse
Practitioner.
6. Your patient wants to communicate with you D. In order to
through email. You have a secure email account that communicate back and
is encrypted and will protect health information as forth, you will have to
required by the Health Insurance Portability and find a way to encrypt
Accountability Act (HIPAA). Your patient does not you're protected health
have an encrypted email account. You reply is: information (PHI)
A. I do not like to communicate through email I