Which statement reflects the current perspective of psychiatric nursing?
a. Psychiatric nurses don't do real nursing.
b. Psychiatric nursing is a new area of interest.
c. Psychiatric nursing is a specialty within nursing.
d. Psychiatric nursing is the only area of nursing with standards of practice.
C
The current perspective of psychiatric nursing is that it is a specialty within nursing. This specialty includes subspecialties for advance practice registered nurses. Subspecialties focus on such areas as mental health services for the child, adolescent, adult, elderly, and the patient who is chronically ill, to name a few.
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