Exam 1: Roles and Functions of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses: Competent Caring

It is essential that psychiatric nurses become aware of their ability in the area of positive political action.The nurse can best achieve this goal by:

In the 1960s,the psychiatric nurse began to shift to primary prevention and psychiatric nursing practice began to focus more on community care.This focus was initiated by which act?

The primary opportunity provided by psychiatric clinical rotations for nursing students is an opportunity to:

A psychiatric aide says,"I don't know why that patient does all that silly giggling and posturing.It's senseless!" The best reply to this comment would address the psychiatric nursing principle that states:

When one considers the roles and functions of psychiatric nursing,the overlap of communication and management roles is seen in the function of:

New opportunities for psychiatric nursing practice have emerged as psychiatric hospitals have changed from large institutions providing custodial care to:

The major determinants of the roles in which a psychiatric nurse engages are:

When considering psychiatric nursing roles and functions,in order to delegate effectively the nurse must have knowledge of the domains of: (Select all that apply.)

In 1952,Hildegard Peplau defined the psychiatric nurse's role as a:

Nursing should increase its role in the advocating of funding for outcome studies because these studies:

To derive the theoretical framework of psychiatric nursing,knowledge from which sciences is included? (Select all that apply.)

The contribution of Linda Richards that remains a part of contemporary psychiatric nursing practice is the idea that:

A nurse states,"I plan ways for patients assigned to me to participate in their own care and to be actively involved in all of the activities on the unit." This approach demonstrates the concept of:

A nurse is contemplating a change from a medical-surgical nursing psychiatric nursing unit in a community hospital.Which intervention would help the nurse identify the supportiveness of the new unit?

The role of the psychiatric nurse in today's contemporary practice settings is:

A psychiatric nurse uses leadership skills to strengthen the profession by:

Case supervision is a psychiatric nursing activity that falls within the nursing practice domain of:

Hildegard Peplau's classic article "Interpersonal Techniques: The Crux of Psychiatric Nursing" directed psychiatric nursing's future growth by stating that the primary role of the psychiatric nurse was that of:

During orientation to the inpatient psychiatric unit,new staff members are told,"Address all patients by their title and surname unless you are directed by the patient to do otherwise." The belief that underlies this directive is that:

For psychiatric nurses in the 1980s and 1990s,the scope of practice began to change to include: