The leadership team of a mental health facility is meeting to discuss the budget for the next fiscal year. Which issue should be a priority to ensure patients receive safe and ethical care?
1. Staffing patterns
2. Patient admission process
3. Access to healthcare providers
4. Follow-up process after discharge
1. Staffing patterns
Explanation:
The ethical issue most disturbing or stressful to psychiatric nurses is staffing patterns that adversely affect nursing care. Patient admission process, access to healthcare providers, and follow-up process after discharge are not identified as being distressing issues for nurses.
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a. A patient's family is the best resource for information about the patient's coping skills. b. Gathering mental status information during the health history interview is usually sufficient. c. Integrating the mental status examination into the health history interview takes an enormous amount of extra time. d. To get a good idea of the patient's level of functioning, performing a complete mental status examination is usually necessary.
What is the LPN's role related to evidence-based practice?
1. Analyze the research to determine its credibility for changing practice. 2. Recommend changes to practice based on the credibility of research. 3. Be aware of research that could influence how care is delivered. 4. Ask peers to provide evidence-based research.
When selecting one topic for exploration from among several possible topics presented by a client, the nurse is using which one of the following therapeutic communication techniques?
a. Clarifying b. Focusing c. Interpreting d. Validating
A patient is undergoing testing to differentiate her airway disorder as being restrictive or obstructive. The nurse would evaluate a normal result on which test to indicate a restrictive disorder is present?
1. Vital capacity 2. Tidal volume 3. Minute ventilation 4. Forced expiratory volume