NSG 526 Clinical Modalities Exam 1 2022 (100% Verified) Questions & Answers
DSM 5 classification of Psychiatric illness - answerThe DSM-5 is a diagnostic
... [Show More] manual. It does not provide theories of cause, management, or treatment options. It lists 22 major categories of mental disorders with more than 150 individual illnesses. The DSM-5 is organized in an attempt to follow the lifespan with neurodevelopmental disorders that occur early in life listed first and neurocognitive disorders that occur at the end of life listed last. It is organized this way to assist the diagnostic decision-making process.
What constitutes a mental disorder? - answer-a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning
-associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupational, or other important activities
-an expectable or culturally approved response to a common stressor or loss, such as the death of a loved one, is not a mental disorder
Scope and standards of Practice - answer● Define NP roles and actions
● Identifies competencies assumed to be held by all NPs who function in a particular role
● Varies broadly from state to state
● Advanced practice PMHNP standards are identified in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice
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 the Psychiatric Interview - answerto gather information necessary to understand, diagnose, and treat the client. Per textbook (Perese)-The purpose of the psychiatric interview are to understand the patient's illness to evaluate the effect of the illness on the patient's life and create a beginning diagnosis and treatment plan
Therapeutic alliance - answerThe clinician uses his or her therapeutic self-calm, warm, understanding, kind, respectful, concerned, and focused to create a therapeutic alliance. It is through the therapeutic alliance in the context of an ongoing relationship that the clinician is able to help the patient change. The patient has likely had questions in his or her mind and since deciding to seek help such as "Will I be safe or threatened, or will I be rejected?" [Show Less]