Two nursing students discuss their career plans after graduation. One student wants to enter psychiatric nursing
The other asks, "Why would you want to be a psychiatric nurse? The only thing they do is talk. You'll lose all your skills." Select the best response.
a. "Psychiatric nurses practice in safer environments than other specialties. Nurse-to-patient ratios must be better because of the nature of the patients' problems."
b. "Psychiatric nurses use complex communication skills as well as critical thinking to solve multidimensional problems. I am challenged by those situations."
c. "I think I will be good in the mental health field. I did not like clinical rotations in school, so I do not want to continue them after I graduate."
d. "Psychiatric nurses do not have to deal with as much pain and suffering as medical-surgical nurses do. That appeals to me."
B
The practice of psychiatric nursing requires a different set of skills than medical-surgical nursing, though there is substantial overlap. Psychiatric nurses must be able to help patients with medical as well as mental health problems, reflecting the holistic perspective these nurses must have. Nurse-patient ratios and workloads in psychiatric settings have increased, just like other specialties. Psychiatric nursing involves clinical practice, not just documentation. Psychosocial pain and suffering is as real as physical.
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