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Which phone is acceptable distance between a speaker in the audience? A. Intimate B. personal C. Public D. Social - CORRECT ANSWER-C. Public zone - 12 25 feet Nancy is the nurse caring for a young mother who states that she is unhappy with her husband because he spends too much time with his friends during football season. When Nancy Stacy she agrees with the client that she is "right" and her assumption that her husband is inappropriately inattentive, which non-therapeutic commun...

The nurse is working as a case manager in an inpatient psychiatric unit and preparing discharge planning for a client that is homeless. Which will be the primary goal of the case manager when coordinating the discharge care of this client? - CORRECT ANSWER-Coordinating all types of care so that the client does not receive fragmented care. The nurse is working in an inpatient mental health facility and caring for several clients. Which client is most likely to experience the revolving door phe...

According to Travelbee (1971), the "therapeutic use of self" can be defined in psychiatric nursing as using one's personality: A) consciously and in full awareness in an attempt to establish relatedness and to structure nursing intervention. B) to provide psychotherapy to the patient during care. C) to influence other family members who may not support the patient. D) to better society in a utilitarian model. - CORRECT ANSWER-A An emphasis on values and morality is even more im...

The primary purpose of the Community Mental Health Center Act of 1963 was a. getting better treatment in a larger, more urban area b. moving patients to their home community for treatment c. providing former patients with employment opportunities d. removing the stigma of living in an institution - CORRECT ANSWER-b. moving patients to their home community for treatment Managed care is designed to a. control health care costs by limiting access to care b. keep health care costs from...

Mental Health/ Wellness - CORRECT ANSWER-State of well-being in which everyone realizes their potential, can cope with stressors, work productively and fruitfully and is able to make a contribution to her or his community Mental illness - CORRECT ANSWER-Medical condition that "disrupts persons thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning" that often result in a diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life. Significant dysfunction, ina...

Mental Health - CORRECT ANSWER-state of well-being in which individuals reach their own potential, cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively, and make a contribution to the community Mental Illness - CORRECT ANSWER-refers to all psychiatric disorders that have definable diagnoses that are manifested in significant dysfunctions that may be related to developmental, biological, or psychological disturbances in mental functioning Risk and Protective Factors - CORRECT ANSWER--In...

Mental health: - CORRECT ANSWER-A state of well-being in which each individual is able to realize his or her own potential, cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively, and make a contribution to the community. (p. 2) Health: - CORRECT ANSWER-A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. (p. 2) Mental health includes: - CORRECT ANSWER--Rational thinking -Communication -Relationships -Learning/Productivity -R...

early mental illness care evolved through trends: - CORRECT ANSWER-societal values politics culture economics religion medicine mental illness used to be seen as a result of - CORRECT ANSWER-evil spirits sins demonic possession fear brain disturbances contagious environments late 1700s european asylums - CORRECT ANSWER-◦Phillipe Pinel & William Tuke advocated for more humane treatment ◦Social & psychological treatment termed "moral treatment" ◦Canadian ...

Which is necessary as a defining feature in mental illness? The individual must need medications in order for the diagnosis to be of psychiatric origin. The individual must have physiological symptoms that match with behaviors that are impaired. The individual must acknowledge that he or she is having difficulties in functioning. The individual must have difficulties in functioning that cause distress and/or impairment of some type. - CORRECT ANSWER-The individual must have difficult...

Psychiatric-mental health nursing - CORRECT ANSWER-Nursing practice specialty committed to promoting mental health through the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of behavioral problems, mental disorders, and comorbid conditions across the lifespan. Psychiatric-mental health nursing interventions - CORRECT ANSWER-Both an art and science. Employs a purposeful use of self and a wide range of nursing, psychosocial, and neurobiological evidence to produce effective outcomes. Purpose of Scope ...

Which applies to the scope of practice of the Psychiatric/Mental Health Registered Nurse? 1. Minimum of a master's degree in mental health nursing. 2. Ability to order medications based on lab values. 3. Crisis intervention. 4. Ability to designate a client's Axis assessment. - CORRECT ANSWER-3. Part of the professional responsibilities of the Psychiatric/Mental Health Registered Nurse is crisis intervention. Which is the overall, priority goal of in-patient psychiatric treatment?...

List the Psych-Mental Health Nursing Standards of Professional Practice - CORRECT ANSWER-Standard 1: Assessment Standard 2: Diagnosis Standard 3: Outcomes Identification Standard 4: Planning Standard 5: Implementation (E-G) Standard 6: Evaluation List the Psych-Mental Health Nursing Standards of Professional Practice included in Standard 5: Implementation (E-G) - CORRECT ANSWER-Standard 5A: Coordination of Care Standard 5B: Health Teaching and Health Promotion Standard 5C: Milieu Th...

While evaluating the mental status of a client with schizophrenia, the nurse asks the client, "Where are you now?" What is the nurse trying to assess in the client? 1. Orientation to time 2. Orientation to place 3. Orientation to person 4. Orientation to situation - CORRECT ANSWER-2. Orientation to place The nurse instructs the client to tear a piece of paper in half and put it in the trash can. What is the nurse trying to evaluate in the client through this instruction? 1. Abstr...

1. Which of the following factors is primarily responsible for the changes in inpatient hospital treatment between the 1980s and the present? A) Progress in treatment options for mentally ill persons B) The growth of managed care C) Less stigma associated with mental illness D) The current use of milieu therapy - CORRECT ANSWER-Ans: B Feedback: Managed care exerts cost-control measures such as recertification of admissions, utilization review, and case managementóall of which have altered ...

Which activity of the core PMH disciplines is considered to be the most important for national mental health care? 1. The promotion and protection of mental health 2. The prevention and treatment of mental disorders 3. Recovery and rehabilitation 4. All of the above - CORRECT ANSWER-4. All of the above Select the statement that best describes the successful treatment of mental disorders in the United States. 1. Treatment outcomes were most successful when they focused on biologic interve...

Early Christian & Early Medieval (1-1000 AD) - CORRECT ANSWER-Power of Christian church grew. All diseases ascribed to demons. Incarcerated in dungeons, beaten, and starved. Later Medieval () - CORRECT ANSWER-Mentally ill still placed in dungeons, beaten, starved, and treated by theologians or witch doctors in western Europe. Muslims built first asylums & treated as sick. Renaissance () - CORRECT ANSWER-England & Colonies: witch hunts, believed mental illness caused by demons. No public p...

Stress as a biological response - CORRECT ANSWER-The state manifested by a specific syndrome, which consist of all the nonspecifically-induced changes within a biological system. This is known also as Fight or flight. Adaptation - CORRECT ANSWER-Restoration of the body to homeostasis following a physiological and/or psychological response to stress. Maladaptive - CORRECT ANSWER-A failure of the body to return to homeostasis following a physiological and/or psychological response to stress,...

A nurse working on a unit in a psychiatric hospital is responsible for performing a variety of functions. Which are the ones that a registered nurse is legally permitted to perform? Select all that apply. 1. Psychotherapy 2. Health promotion 3. Case management 4. Prescribing medication 5. Treating human responses - CORRECT ANSWER-2. Health promotion 3. Case management 5. Treating human responses The psychiatrist orders "Restraints PRN" for a client who has a history of viole...

Considering the many criteria for good mental health, the nursing student has been instructed to list four of these criteria. The student's list consists of the following: (1) an appropriate perception of reality, (2) the ability to accept oneself, (3) the ability to establish relationships, (4) a need for detachment and the desire for privacy. How would the nurse evaluate the nursing student's list? A) Excellent. All the student's criteria are correct. B) Good. Three of the four ar...

A client with a diagnosis of depression who has attempted suicide says to the nurse, "I should have died. I've always been a failure. Nothing ever goes right for me." Which response by the nurse demon- strates therapeutic communication? 1. "You have everything to live for." 2. "Why do you see yourself as a failure?" 3. "Feeling like this is all part of being depressed." 4. "You've been feeling like a failure for a while?" - CORRECT ANSWER-4 Rationale...