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WILKES NSG 526 EXAM 1 LATEST 2025 / 2027 ACTUAL
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What is not considered a mental disorder? - Answer--An expectable or culturally approved response to a common stressor or loss, such as the death of a loved one -Socially deviant behavior (i.e. political, religious, or sexual) and conflicts that are primarily between the individual and society (unless the behaviors are due to a dysfunction)
What is considered a mental disorder per the DSM5? - Answer--Associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupation, or other important activities -Significant disturbance in cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological or developmental processes underlying mental functioning
Purpose of Scope of Practice? - Answer--Define NP roles 1 / 4
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-Identify competencies assumed to be held by all NPs who function in a particular role -Varies broadly from state to state
Purpose of Standard of Practice? - Answer--Authoritative statements regarding the quality and type of practice that should be provided -Provide a way to judge the nature of care provided -Reflect the expectation for the care that should be provided to clients with various illnesses -Reflect professional agreement focused on the minimum levels of acceptable performance -Can be used to legally describe the standard of care that must be met by a provider -May be precise protocols that must be followed or more general guidelines that recommend actions
Purpose of Psychiatric Interview? - Answer-Understand the patient's illness to evaluate the effect on their lives and create a beginning diagnosis and treatment plan
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What is a Therapeutic Alliance? - Answer--Create a relationship with client by being calming, warm, understanding, kind, respectful, concerned and focused -Able to help patient better if a therapeutic alliance was formed
Important components of a therapeutic alliance? - Answer- -Therapist and patient work collaboratively to create therapeutic change through an affectionate bond -Agreement on goals of therapy -The therapist's ability to be empathetic and involved in therapy -The ability of the patient to do the work of therapy
What is Psychotherapy? - Answer-Holistic treatment that relies on the nurse's processing of that the patient is experiencing
Peplau's most universal contribution to PMHNPs? - Answer--Her application of Sullivan's theory of anxiety to nursing practice -Described the effects of different levels of anxiety (mild, moderate, severe, and panic) on perception and learning 3 / 4
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-Promoted interventions to lower anxiety, with the aim of improving clients' abilities to think and function at more satisfactory levels
Per Peplau, skills of a MH nurse? - Answer--Observation, interpretation, and intervention (The PMHNP observes and listens to the client, developing impressions about the client's situation)
What is the main idea for Peplau's Theory of Interpersonal Relationships? - Answer--The processes by which the nurse helps clients make positive changes in their health care status and well-being -Believed that illness offered a unique opportunity for experiential learning, personal growth, and improved coping strategies and that PMH-APRNs play a unique role in facilitating this growth
Therapeutic Communication Techniques? - Answer-- Silence -Accepting -Giving recognition -Giving information
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