Exam 33: Forensic Psychiatric Nursing

The psychiatric forensic nurse examiner has been asked by the defendant's lawyer to determine the patient's legal sanity.The priority task of the nurse will be to:

Which statements would be appropriate to use to explain forensic nursing to the prison staff? Select all that apply.

When a defendant is arraigned,she demonstrates bizarre behavior,talking to unseen people,failing to respond to questions asked by the judge,and shouting obscenities during the proceedings.The judge orders an evaluation by a forensic nurse examiner.The information of highest priority the examiner will be asked to provide for the court is an assessment of:

Which of the following statements about corrections and correctional nursing is accurate?

The correctional mental health nurse learns that prior to arrest,an inmate with bipolar II disorder had run out of money and had not refilled her lithium prescription,leading to relapse.While psychotic she had assaulted several people in a convenience store and was arrested,tried,convicted,and sentenced.Which outcome would be most important to achieve prior to release? The patient:

In which circumstance would a psychiatric forensic nurse examiner determine that it would be appropriate for the defendant and his attorney to consider the legal insanity defense?

The highest degree of credibility is required by a nurse who provides testimony before the court as a(n):

In which case would the psychiatric forensic nurse examiner assess the alleged perpetrator as competent to proceed with trial?

An inmate with schizophrenia does not respond when the guard tells him to ask the desk officer for a mop and bucket,then get water from the shower area and mop the center aisle.The guard becomes angry and cancels the inmate's recreation break.Which response by the corrections nurse would be most appropriate?

The psychiatric forensic nurse describes her work as follows: "I apply my knowledge of psychopathology as I investigate and reconstruct the crime and attempt to understand the criminal's reasoning process.This allows me to compile information on the type of individual who most likely would have committed the crime." The work the nurse describes is that of the:

A psychiatric forensic clinical specialist is working with a defendant as competency evaluator.A staff member at the mental hospital asks her,"Why are you spending so much time with that guy? You spend one-to-one time with him and even go to activities with him.And I have seen you writing volumes.Usually we just give these people medication for a while and return them to the court." What response by the psychiatric clinical specialist would be most appropriate?

Which question would the psychiatric forensic nurse examiner ask to obtain data with which to assess legal sanity?

A mental health nurse working in a large city jail assesses all new inmates who report that they take psychotropic medication or who present with symptoms of psychiatric disorders.Because of the high number of newly incarcerated individuals the nurse sees,which nursing skill would be a priority for the nurse?

When asked by student nurses wishing to learn about correctional nursing,the correctional nurse would characterize the health problems of inmates as:

An inmate suffers from PTSD caused by severe sexual abuse during which she had been restrained by the perpetrator's girlfriend.One day she sees an inmate who reminds her of the perpetrator's girlfriend and has a flashback,during which she attacks the inmate.Corrections officers place her in restraints per the jail's protocol.The corrections nurse should anticipate that the patient will react to the restraints by:

An inmate suffers from PTSD caused by severe sexual abuse during which she had been restrained by the perpetrator's girlfriend.One day she sees an inmate who reminds her of the perpetrator's girlfriend and has a flashback,during which she attacks the inmate.Correction officers place her in restraints per the jail's protocol.Which short-term response by the nurse would likely be most therapeutic?

A correctional nurse is called to testify about care received by a specific patient in the 8 hours before his successful suicide.The nurse responds to questions about what he saw and heard and the interventions he performed and documented during the work shift.In what capacity was this nurse testifying?

The mental health corrections nurse assesses a new prisoner who is beginning his incarceration for committing a sex crime.The prisoner speaks in a low voice,is tearful,and tells the nurse that his life may as well be over,because there is no hope that he will ever be able to fit into society after he is released from prison.He states his family has disowned him and wherever he goes,his reputation will follow him.The priority response would be to:

Which quality would be most likely to disqualify a nurse from employment as a forensic psychiatric nurse?