New opportunities for psychiatric nursing practice have emerged as psychiatric hospitals have changed from large institutions providing custodial care to:

Question

a. small units providing acute inpatient care.
b. integrated clinical systems providing a full continuum of care.
c. community-based home care systems focused on the chronically mentally ill.
d. agencies more concerned with mental health promotion than providing direct care.

Answer 1

B
Alternative treatment settings have emerged throughout the continuum of mental health care, and hospitals have responded by creating integrated clinical systems that provide inpatient care, partial hospitalization, day treatment, residential care, home care, and ambulatory care as part of the parent organization. Psychiatric nurses provide care in each of these settings as well as in community-based treatment settings such as shelters, schools, and HMOs.