The psychiatric forensic nurse role functions include making assessments to determine (more than
one answer may be correct)
A. perpetrator ability to formulate intent.
B. risk for future violent acts.
C. evidence of sexual assault.
D. legal sanity.
E. ability to understand legal proceedings.
F. patterns of injury in abuse.
A, B, D, E
Rationale: Options A, B, D, and E are assessments the psychiatric forensic nurse makes. Options C
and F are assessments made by the physiological forensic nurse. The physiological forensic nurse
focuses on the victim of the alleged crime, whereas the psychiatric forensic nurse focuses on the
perpetrator of the alleged crime.
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