Exam 4: Evidence-Based Psychiatric Nursing Practice

A nurse is developing a set of practice guidelines for a clinical unit and is conducting a literature review to search for examples of criteria that will be relevant to achieving patient-care goals.The search criteria that will be most relevant are those that:

To substantiate clinical practice the psychiatric nurse should place the greatest reliance on the _____ basis.

Which activity will be most useful to a nurse wishing to provide evidence-based psychiatric nursing care?

The categories of outcome indicators include:

Which nursing activities are necessary to provide evidence-based psychiatric nursing care?

Dimensions that are considered regarding outcome measurement tools such as quality report cards include: (Select all that apply.)

A nurse working at a facility that has just introduced the use of clinical pathways must understand that clinical pathways:

For psychiatric nurses,an essential part of outcome measurement is the:

The reason for routinely using the behavioral rating scale is to assess the: (Select all that apply.)

For a theory to be useful in practice,nurses need to validate the theory by:

Which statement could a nurse use in an argument to support evidence-based psychiatric nursing practice?

Which best describes the evidence-based model for psychiatric nursing practice?

Practice guidelines are formulated to:

Which prevention and treatment option used in informed decision making regarding behavioral health assessment and treatment has the strongest evidence base?

The psychiatric nurse uses evidence-based practice as a means to better meet patients' needs.The most current source of nursing research is:

The psychiatric nurse is preparing discharge information for a patient diagnosed with schizophrenia.Knowing that the patient will be discharged to a home shared with the patient's elderly parents,you want to develop evidence-based care for the patient.You will first:

Several nursing colleagues have formulated a task force to identify a process to set up clinical pathways for patient care of those who are severely depressed.The initial step is to:

To what extent is outcome measurement important to the delivery of psychiatric nursing care?

To focus a patient's treatment or medication regimen in a very specific format,which tool would be used?

Most often,clinical pathways are used in: