SOLUTIONS RATED A: PSYCHIATRIC ASSESSMENT FOR THE
PSYCHIATRIC-MENTAL HEALTH NURSE PRACTITIONER
REVIEW WEEK 1 & 2 EXAM | (70+ QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS) | (EXPERT VERIFIED)
1973 ANA first published: - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Standards of Psychiatric-
Mental Health Nursing Practice
Match the ethical principles to the scenario it represents: A PMHNP discovers her
colleague is diverting scheduled medications to self-medicate anxiety. The
PMHNP reports the concerns to the colleague's supervisor. - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > Contributions to Healthcare Environments (provision 6)
Rationale: The PMHNP recognizes signs/symptoms of psychiatric disorders in the
workplace reporting peer observations to leadership. The PMHNP helps address
problems faced by colleagues that impact client safety or violate public trust,
including substance abuse.
1913, Effie Jane Taylor developed - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > the first nurse-
organized training course for psychiatric nursing at Johns Hopkins Hospital
(before early psychiatric nurses were trained by physicians)
Match the ethical principles to the scenario it represents: A PMHNP speaks at a
school board meeting about the need develop policies to expand mental health
services for underserved students. - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Promotion of the
Nursing Profession (provision 9)
Rationale: The PMHNP participates in policy development and implementation
that recognizes PMH disorders as treatable and ensures that nursing care is
delivered with respect to human needs and values without prejudice.
,Match the ethical principles to the scenario it represents: The client presents to
the emergency department with hallucinations and is threatening self-harm. The
PMHNP signs an involuntary admission order for emergent psychiatric care. -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Commitment to the Healthcare Consumer (provision 2)
Rationale: The PMHNP demonstrates a commitment to the healthcare consumer
by balancing the client's human rights with safety, including coercive measures
when the client was unable to maintain their own safety.
Match the ethical principles to the scenario it represents: The PMHNP gives a
presentation at a national conference on best practices in depression treatment. -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Advancement of the Nursing Profession (provision 7)
Rationale: The PMHNP contributes to advancing the profession through practice,
education, administration, and knowledge development.
Match the ethical principles to the scenario it represents: The PMHNP has
overbooked her sessions today, so she asks the RN who works in her office to
conduct one of her phone therapy sessions today. - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
Responsibility and Accountability for Practice (provision 4)
Rationale: This is an unethical scenario. The PMHNP must understand the scope
of other team members' practice in order to delegate appropriately. Conducting a
counseling session is outside of the RN's scope of practice.
Match the ethical principles to the scenario it represents: The PMHNP is a
member of the ANA and NAMI and regularly participates in workgroups that seek
to expand access to care for healthcare consumers with PMH disorders. - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > Collaboration to meet health needs (provision 8)
Rationale: The PMHNP promotes community, national, and international efforts
to meet health needs through collaboration with other healthcare professionals
to promote prevention, treatment, and recovery.
, Match the ethical principles to the scenario it represents: The PMHNP is sharing
sexually explicit memes with a client that she saw earlier today in a group session.
- ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Advocacy for the Healthcare Consumer (provision 3)
This is an unethical scenario. The PMHNP recognizes the power differential in the
therapeutic relationship and understands that any sort of sexual activity or
intimacies with current clients, their close family members, guardians, or
significant others is unethical.
Match the ethical principles to the scenario it represents: The PMHNP takes time
for daily meditation to improve mindfulness and ease stress. - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > Duties to Self and Others (provision 5)
Rationale: The PMHNP is committed to practicing self-care, managing stress, and
maintaining supportive relationships to meet personal needs outside of
therapeutic relationships.
match the practice setting with the correct scenario: A global pandemic limits
face-to-face mental health visits, the PMHNP determines that the client requires
ongoing mental health treatment. The PMHNP arranges to meet with the client
via weekly interactive video sessions - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Telehealth
Rationale: Telehealth services utilize telecommunication technology to deliver
treatment to clients
match the practice setting with the correct scenario: Following hospitalization,
the client returns home but commutes to a treatment center for 4 hours a day 5
days per week for ongoing therapy, medication management, and
psychoeducation - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Partial Hospitalization/Intensive
Outpatient Treatment