Test Bank for Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 7th Edition Margaret Jordan Halter

Chapter 01: Mental Health and Mental Illness 1. A staff nurse completes orientation to a psychiatric unit. This nurse may expect an advanced practice nurse to perform which additional intervention? a. Conduct mental health assessments. c. Establish therapeutic relationships. b. Prescribe psychotropic medication. d. Individualize nursing care plans. 2. When a nursing student expresses concerns about how mental health nurses “lose all their nursing skills,” the best response by the mental health nurse is: a. “Psychiatric nurses practice in safer environments than other specialties. Nurse-topatient ratios must be better because of the nature of the patients’ problems.” b. “Psychiatric nurses use complex communication skills as well as critical thinking to solve multidimensional problems. I am challenged by those situations.” c. “That’s a misconception. Psychiatric nurses frequently use high technology monitoring equipment and manage complex intravenous therapies.” d. “Psychiatric nurses do not have to deal with as much pain and suffering as medical-surgical nurses do. That appeals to me.” 3. When a new bill introduced in Congress reduces f