The psychiatric forensic nurse provides this description of work responsibilities: "I use knowledge of psychopathology as I investigate and reconstruct crimes and then try to understand a criminal's reasoning process
This allows me to compile information on what type of individual would have most likely committed the crime." The work the nurse describes is that of a:
a. competency therapist.
b. hostage negotiator.
c. forensic examiner.
d. criminal profiler.
ANS: D
Criminal profilers attempt to provide law enforcement with specific information and the type of individual who would have committed a certain crime. Profilers use behavioral and psychological indicators left at violent crime scenes and apply their understanding of psychopathology, attempt to reconstruct the crime, formulate hypotheses, and develop a profile, which is then tested against known data. The distracters refer to roles the psychiatric forensic nurse may fill, but none of these roles fits the description given in the scenario.
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