Varcarolis' Psychiatric Mental Health
Nursing Final fully solved
b. report a sense of well-being - correct answer ✔✔ Which outcome, focused on recovery,
would be expected in the plan of care for a patient living in the community and diagnosed with
serious and persistent mental illness? Within 3 months, the patient will:
a. deny suicidal ideation.
b. report a sense of well-being.
c. take medications as prescribed.
d. attend clinic appointments on time
d. Our patients need our help to learn behaviors that will help them get along in society -
correct answer ✔✔ In the shift-change report, an off-going nurse criticizes a patient who wears
heavy makeup. Which comment by the nurse who receives the report best demonstrates
advocacy?
a. This is a psychiatric hospital. Craziness is what we are all about.
b. Lets all show acceptance of this patient by wearing lots of makeup too.
c. Your comments are inconsiderate and inappropriate. Keep the report objective.
d. Our patients need our help to learn behaviors that will help them get along in society.
D. I'd like to sit with you a while so you may feel more comfortable talking with me - correct
answer ✔✔ A nurse assesses a newly admitted patient diagnosed with major depressive
disorder. Which statement is an example of attending?
,a. We all have stress in life. Being in a psychiatric hospital isn't the end of the world
b. Tell me why you felt you had to be hospitalized to received treatment for your depression.
c. You will feel better after we get some antidepressant medication started for you.
d. I'd like to sit with you a while so you may feel more comfortable talking with me.
a. Lets discuss some means of coping other than suicide when you have these feelings - correct
answer ✔✔ A patient is hospitalized for depression and suicidal ideation after their spouse asks
for a divorce. Select the nurses most caring comment.
a. Lets discuss some means of coping other than suicide when you have these feelings
b. I understand why you're so depressed. When I got divorced, I was devastated too.
c. You should forget about your marriage and move on with your life.
d. How did you get so depressed that hospitalization was necessary?
b. Address ends in ".com" - correct answer ✔✔ A patient shows the nurse an article from the
Internet about a health problem. Which characteristic of the web site's address most alerts the
nurse that the site may have biased and prejudiced information?
a. Address ends in ".org"
b. Address ends in ".com"
c. Address ends in ".gov"
d. Address ends in ".net"
a. One descriptive research study rarely provides enough evidence to change practice - correct
answer ✔✔ A nurse says, "When I was in school, I learned to call upset patients by their name
to get their attention; however, I read a descriptive research study that says that this approach
, does not work. I plan to stop calling patient by their name. Which statement is the best
appraisal of this nurses comment?
a. One descriptive research study rarely provides enough evidence to change practice
b. Staff nurses apply new research findings only with the help from clinical nurse specialists
c. New research findings should be incorporated into clinical algorithms before using them in
practice.
d. The nurse misinterpreted the results of the study. Classic tenets of research do not change.
b. "Psychiatric nurses use complex communication skills as well as critical thinking to solve
multidimensional problems. I am challenged by those situations." - correct answer ✔✔ Two
nursing students discuss their career plans after graduation. One student wants to enter
psychiatric nursing. The other asks, "Why would you want to be a psychiatric nurse? The only
thing they do is talk. You'll lose all your skills." Select the best response.
a. "Psychiatric nurses practice in safer environments than other specialties. Nurse-to-patient
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. "I think I will be good in the mental health field. I did not like clinical rotations in school, so I
do not want to continue them after I graduate."
d. "Psychiatric nurses do not have to deal with as much pain and suffering as medical-surgical
nurses do. That appeals to me."
b. Systematic review of randomized controlled trials - correct answer ✔✔ Which research
evidence would most influence a group of nurses to change their practice?
a. Expert committee report of recommendations for practice
b. Systematic review of randomized controlled trials
c. Non-experimental descriptive study.
d. Critical pathway
Nursing Final fully solved
b. report a sense of well-being - correct answer ✔✔ Which outcome, focused on recovery,
would be expected in the plan of care for a patient living in the community and diagnosed with
serious and persistent mental illness? Within 3 months, the patient will:
a. deny suicidal ideation.
b. report a sense of well-being.
c. take medications as prescribed.
d. attend clinic appointments on time
d. Our patients need our help to learn behaviors that will help them get along in society -
correct answer ✔✔ In the shift-change report, an off-going nurse criticizes a patient who wears
heavy makeup. Which comment by the nurse who receives the report best demonstrates
advocacy?
a. This is a psychiatric hospital. Craziness is what we are all about.
b. Lets all show acceptance of this patient by wearing lots of makeup too.
c. Your comments are inconsiderate and inappropriate. Keep the report objective.
d. Our patients need our help to learn behaviors that will help them get along in society.
D. I'd like to sit with you a while so you may feel more comfortable talking with me - correct
answer ✔✔ A nurse assesses a newly admitted patient diagnosed with major depressive
disorder. Which statement is an example of attending?
,a. We all have stress in life. Being in a psychiatric hospital isn't the end of the world
b. Tell me why you felt you had to be hospitalized to received treatment for your depression.
c. You will feel better after we get some antidepressant medication started for you.
d. I'd like to sit with you a while so you may feel more comfortable talking with me.
a. Lets discuss some means of coping other than suicide when you have these feelings - correct
answer ✔✔ A patient is hospitalized for depression and suicidal ideation after their spouse asks
for a divorce. Select the nurses most caring comment.
a. Lets discuss some means of coping other than suicide when you have these feelings
b. I understand why you're so depressed. When I got divorced, I was devastated too.
c. You should forget about your marriage and move on with your life.
d. How did you get so depressed that hospitalization was necessary?
b. Address ends in ".com" - correct answer ✔✔ A patient shows the nurse an article from the
Internet about a health problem. Which characteristic of the web site's address most alerts the
nurse that the site may have biased and prejudiced information?
a. Address ends in ".org"
b. Address ends in ".com"
c. Address ends in ".gov"
d. Address ends in ".net"
a. One descriptive research study rarely provides enough evidence to change practice - correct
answer ✔✔ A nurse says, "When I was in school, I learned to call upset patients by their name
to get their attention; however, I read a descriptive research study that says that this approach
, does not work. I plan to stop calling patient by their name. Which statement is the best
appraisal of this nurses comment?
a. One descriptive research study rarely provides enough evidence to change practice
b. Staff nurses apply new research findings only with the help from clinical nurse specialists
c. New research findings should be incorporated into clinical algorithms before using them in
practice.
d. The nurse misinterpreted the results of the study. Classic tenets of research do not change.
b. "Psychiatric nurses use complex communication skills as well as critical thinking to solve
multidimensional problems. I am challenged by those situations." - correct answer ✔✔ Two
nursing students discuss their career plans after graduation. One student wants to enter
psychiatric nursing. The other asks, "Why would you want to be a psychiatric nurse? The only
thing they do is talk. You'll lose all your skills." Select the best response.
a. "Psychiatric nurses practice in safer environments than other specialties. Nurse-to-patient
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. "I think I will be good in the mental health field. I did not like clinical rotations in school, so I
do not want to continue them after I graduate."
d. "Psychiatric nurses do not have to deal with as much pain and suffering as medical-surgical
nurses do. That appeals to me."
b. Systematic review of randomized controlled trials - correct answer ✔✔ Which research
evidence would most influence a group of nurses to change their practice?
a. Expert committee report of recommendations for practice
b. Systematic review of randomized controlled trials
c. Non-experimental descriptive study.
d. Critical pathway
