NR548/ NR 548 EXAM 3 2024/2025/2026 PSYCHIATRIC
ASSESSMENT FOR THE PSYCHIATRIC-MENTAL HEALTH
NURSE PRACTITIONER REVIEW |WEEKS 5-6 COVERED
WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
Who the first organized training school within a hospital for the
insane in 1882? - CORRECT ANSWER >>>Dr. Edward Cowles
Who developed the first nurse-organized training course for
psychiatric nursing at Johns Hopkins Hospital. - CORRECT
ANSWER >>>Effie Jane Taylor
Who recommended standards of training for psychiatric nurses,
which led to improved education and standards of care? -
CORRECT ANSWER >>>Laura Fitzsimmons
What year brought a transition towards deinstitutionalization in
care for those with mental illnesses, which led to an increase in
the number of psychiatric patients receiving care in the
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community rather than hospitals? - CORRECT ANSWER
>>>1950s
What Act allowed for the expansion of the PMHCNS role into
community and ambulatory settings as they helped those who
had been deinstitutionalized adapt (ANA, 2014). - CORRECT
ANSWER >>>The Community Mental Health Centers Act of
1963
occur in a hospital, psychiatric facility or community setting.
These services focus on psychiatric and substance-related
emergencies. - CORRECT ANSWER >>>Crisis intervention and
psychiatric emergency services
is a short-term treatment. It occurs in the inpatient setting
providing care for acutely ill patients at risk for harming self or
others or unable to meet basic needs due to impairment. The
focus is crisis stabilization. - CORRECT ANSWER >>>Acute
inpatient care
may admit clients directly or accept transfers from acute
inpatient care. They provide intermediate or long-term care for
patients at chronic risk to self or others or unable to function
without supervision and support due to mental disorders. They
include treatment, habilitation and rehabilitation and may be
public, private, or state hospitals operated through the criminal
justice system. - CORRECT ANSWER >>>Intermediate and long-
term care
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provide acute symptom management, intensive treatment, and
safe housing for patients who do not require 24-hour medical
management or nursing care. These programs can be free
standing or step-down facilities. - CORRECT ANSWER >>>Partial
hospitalization and intensive outpatient treatment (IOP)
provide 24-hour care and housing for an extended period.
Services include psychoeducation, vocational rehabilitation,
and training for activities of daily living. - CORRECT ANSWER
>>>Residential Services
is provided in non-hospital community settings such as mental
health clinics, homes, worksites, shelters, crisis centers, senior
centers, group homes, or schools. It can also provide care in an
integrative primary health care setting. - CORRECT ANSWER
>>>Community based Care
is a team treatment approach to provide comprehensive,
community-based psychiatric treatment, rehabilitation, and
support to persons with severe mental illness (SMI). It provides
individualized service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. - CORRECT
ANSWER >>>Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
provide healthcare at a basic level rather than a specialized
level. These providers address a majority of personal healthcare
needs. Healthcare consumers often seek care for mental health
concerns at this level for accessibility or to avoid the stigma
associated with mental health services. - CORRECT ANSWER
>>>Primary care