, TEST BANK VARCAROLIS' FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHIATRIC-MENTAL
HEALTH NURSING A CLINICAL 9TH EDITION BY MARGARET JORDAN
HALTER /100% APPROVED VERSION/ CHAPTER 1-36/ACTUAL
QUESTION AND ANSWERS A+
TABLE OF CONTENT
UNIT 1: FOUNDATION IN THEORY
Chapter 1: Mental health and mental Illness
Chapter 2: Theories and Therapies
Chapter 3: Psychobiology and psychopharmacology
UNIT 2: FOUNDATIONS FOR PRACTICE
Chapter 4: Treatment Settings
Chapter 5: Cultural Implications
Chapter 6: Legal and Ethical considerations
UNIT 3: PSYCHOSOCIAL NURSING TOOLS
Chapter 7: The Nursing Proccess and Standards of Care
Chapter 8: Therapeutical Relationships
Chapter 9: Therapeutical Communication
Chapter 10: Stress Responses and Stress Management
UNIT 4: PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL DISODERS
Chapter 11: Childhood and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Chapter 12: schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
Chapter 13: Bipolar and Related Disorders
Chapter 14: Depressive Disorders
Chapter 15: Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Chapter 16: Trauma, Stressor-Related, and Dissociative Disorders
Chapter 17: Somatic Symptom Disorders
Chapter 18: Eating and Feeding Disorders
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, Chapter 19: Sleep- Wake Disorders
Chapter 20: Sexual Dysfunction, Gender Dysphoria, and Paraphilic Disorders
Chapter 21: Impulse Control Disorders
Chapter 22: Substance- Related and addictive Disorders
Chapter 23: Neurocognitive Disorders
Chapter 24: Personality Disorders
UNIT 5: TRAUMA INVENTIONS
Chapter 25: Suicide and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Chapter 26: Crisis and Disaster
Chapter 27: Anger, Aggression, and Violence
Chapter 28: Child, Order Adult and Intimate Partner Violence
Chapter 29: Sexual Assault
UNIT 6: INTERVENTIONS FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS
Chapter 30: Dying, Death, and Grieving
Chapter 31: Order Adults
Chapter 32: Serious Mental Illness
Chapter 33: Forensic Nursing
UNIT 7: OTHER INTERVENTION MODALITIES
Chapter 34: Therapeutical Groups
Chapter 35: Family Interventions
Chapter 36: Integrative Care
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, CHAPTER 1: MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL ILLNESS
MULTIPLE CHOICE
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.
b. Prescribe psychotropic medication.✓✓✓
c. Establish therapeutic relationships.
d. Individualize nursing care plans.
B Correct Answer✓
In most states, prescriptive privileges are granted to master’s-prepared nurse practitioners
and clinical nurse specialists who have taken special courses on prescribing medication.
The nurse prepared at the basic level is permitted to perform mental health assessments,
establish relationships, and provide individualized care planning.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand (Comprehension) REF: Page 1-
23 TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation
MSC: Client Needs: Safe, Effective Care Environment
2. A nursing student expresses concerns that mental health nurses lose all their clinical
nursing skills. Select the best response by the mental health nurse.
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. That’s a misconception. Psychiatric nurses frequently use high technology
A+ SCORE
HEALTH NURSING A CLINICAL 9TH EDITION BY MARGARET JORDAN
HALTER /100% APPROVED VERSION/ CHAPTER 1-36/ACTUAL
QUESTION AND ANSWERS A+
TABLE OF CONTENT
UNIT 1: FOUNDATION IN THEORY
Chapter 1: Mental health and mental Illness
Chapter 2: Theories and Therapies
Chapter 3: Psychobiology and psychopharmacology
UNIT 2: FOUNDATIONS FOR PRACTICE
Chapter 4: Treatment Settings
Chapter 5: Cultural Implications
Chapter 6: Legal and Ethical considerations
UNIT 3: PSYCHOSOCIAL NURSING TOOLS
Chapter 7: The Nursing Proccess and Standards of Care
Chapter 8: Therapeutical Relationships
Chapter 9: Therapeutical Communication
Chapter 10: Stress Responses and Stress Management
UNIT 4: PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL DISODERS
Chapter 11: Childhood and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Chapter 12: schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
Chapter 13: Bipolar and Related Disorders
Chapter 14: Depressive Disorders
Chapter 15: Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Chapter 16: Trauma, Stressor-Related, and Dissociative Disorders
Chapter 17: Somatic Symptom Disorders
Chapter 18: Eating and Feeding Disorders
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, Chapter 19: Sleep- Wake Disorders
Chapter 20: Sexual Dysfunction, Gender Dysphoria, and Paraphilic Disorders
Chapter 21: Impulse Control Disorders
Chapter 22: Substance- Related and addictive Disorders
Chapter 23: Neurocognitive Disorders
Chapter 24: Personality Disorders
UNIT 5: TRAUMA INVENTIONS
Chapter 25: Suicide and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Chapter 26: Crisis and Disaster
Chapter 27: Anger, Aggression, and Violence
Chapter 28: Child, Order Adult and Intimate Partner Violence
Chapter 29: Sexual Assault
UNIT 6: INTERVENTIONS FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS
Chapter 30: Dying, Death, and Grieving
Chapter 31: Order Adults
Chapter 32: Serious Mental Illness
Chapter 33: Forensic Nursing
UNIT 7: OTHER INTERVENTION MODALITIES
Chapter 34: Therapeutical Groups
Chapter 35: Family Interventions
Chapter 36: Integrative Care
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, CHAPTER 1: MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL ILLNESS
MULTIPLE CHOICE
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.
b. Prescribe psychotropic medication.✓✓✓
c. Establish therapeutic relationships.
d. Individualize nursing care plans.
B Correct Answer✓
In most states, prescriptive privileges are granted to master’s-prepared nurse practitioners
and clinical nurse specialists who have taken special courses on prescribing medication.
The nurse prepared at the basic level is permitted to perform mental health assessments,
establish relationships, and provide individualized care planning.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand (Comprehension) REF: Page 1-
23 TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation
MSC: Client Needs: Safe, Effective Care Environment
2. A nursing student expresses concerns that mental health nurses lose all their clinical
nursing skills. Select the best response by the mental health nurse.
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. That’s a misconception. Psychiatric nurses frequently use high technology
A+ SCORE
