Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
Exam 1 questions n answers
collaborating role of the mental health team members - correct answer ✔✔ PMH nurses,
wherever they practice, must plan and share with others to deliver maximum mental health
services to clients and their families--the purpose of partnering and collaborating with others is
to make the best use of the different abilities of mental health team members so that the client
and the family receive the most effective service available.
Interpersonal Competence Qualities - correct answer ✔✔ 1) Respect for the client
2) Availability
3) Spontaneity
4) Hope
5) Acceptance
5) Sensitivity
6) Assertiveness
7) Vision
8) Accountability
9) Advocacy
10) Spirituality
11) Empathy
12) Critical thinking
13) Self-disclosure (avoid unless you are experienced and it is beneficial)
therapeutic alliance - correct answer ✔✔ a conscious, growth facilitating relationship between a
helping person and the client
, assertive behavior - correct answer ✔✔ asking for what one wants or acting to get it in a way
that respects other people
spirituality - correct answer ✔✔ the search for meaning and purpose in life through a
connection with others, nature, and/or a belief in a higher power, is the core of each person's
existence
empathy - correct answer ✔✔ the ability to feel what others feel and respond to and
understand the experience of others on their terms
critical thinking - correct answer ✔✔ purposeful, reasonable, reflective thinking that drives
problem solving and decision making and aims to make judgments based on evidence
burnout - correct answer ✔✔ name given to phenomenon, or condition in which health care
professionals lose their concern and feeling for their clients and come to treat them in a
detached or even dehumanized ways
therapeutic/healing milieu - correct answer ✔✔ safe and therapeutic environment in
collaboration with patients, families, and other health care clinicians
Mental Health Examination (MSE) - correct answer ✔✔ usually a standardized procedure in
agencies that use it; primary purpose is to gather objective data to be used to help, determine
etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and risk of violence; provides help in establishing the
existence of delirium, amnestic, and other cognitive disorders
Mental Health Examination - correct answer ✔✔ 1) general behavior, appearance, and attitude
2) characteristics of speech
3) emotional state
4) content of thought
Exam 1 questions n answers
collaborating role of the mental health team members - correct answer ✔✔ PMH nurses,
wherever they practice, must plan and share with others to deliver maximum mental health
services to clients and their families--the purpose of partnering and collaborating with others is
to make the best use of the different abilities of mental health team members so that the client
and the family receive the most effective service available.
Interpersonal Competence Qualities - correct answer ✔✔ 1) Respect for the client
2) Availability
3) Spontaneity
4) Hope
5) Acceptance
5) Sensitivity
6) Assertiveness
7) Vision
8) Accountability
9) Advocacy
10) Spirituality
11) Empathy
12) Critical thinking
13) Self-disclosure (avoid unless you are experienced and it is beneficial)
therapeutic alliance - correct answer ✔✔ a conscious, growth facilitating relationship between a
helping person and the client
, assertive behavior - correct answer ✔✔ asking for what one wants or acting to get it in a way
that respects other people
spirituality - correct answer ✔✔ the search for meaning and purpose in life through a
connection with others, nature, and/or a belief in a higher power, is the core of each person's
existence
empathy - correct answer ✔✔ the ability to feel what others feel and respond to and
understand the experience of others on their terms
critical thinking - correct answer ✔✔ purposeful, reasonable, reflective thinking that drives
problem solving and decision making and aims to make judgments based on evidence
burnout - correct answer ✔✔ name given to phenomenon, or condition in which health care
professionals lose their concern and feeling for their clients and come to treat them in a
detached or even dehumanized ways
therapeutic/healing milieu - correct answer ✔✔ safe and therapeutic environment in
collaboration with patients, families, and other health care clinicians
Mental Health Examination (MSE) - correct answer ✔✔ usually a standardized procedure in
agencies that use it; primary purpose is to gather objective data to be used to help, determine
etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and risk of violence; provides help in establishing the
existence of delirium, amnestic, and other cognitive disorders
Mental Health Examination - correct answer ✔✔ 1) general behavior, appearance, and attitude
2) characteristics of speech
3) emotional state
4) content of thought
