Multiple Choice
The broadened scope of psychiatric nursing practice is attributable primarily to:
A) increased use of psychotropic drugs.
B) opening of community mental health centers.
C) legislation that changed nurse practice acts across the country.
D) recidivism of seriously mentally ill patients in public mental hospitals.
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