Test Bank for Keltner’s Psychiatric Nursing, 9th Edition by Steele

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Key Topics Covered

• Therapeutic communication and psychiatric interviewing
• Psychobiology and brain-behavior relationships
• Psychotropic medications (antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anxiolytics)
• Anxiety, trauma, and stressor-related disorders
• Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
• Personality disorders and behavioral management
• Substance use and addictive disorders
• Group therapy, milieu therapy, and family interventions
• Neurocognitive disorders: delirium, dementia
• Children, adolescents, older adults, and veteran mental health

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Chapter 10: Working With Groups of Patients
Steele: Keltner’s Psychiatric Nursing, 9th Edition

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. A psychiatric nurse clinician on an inpatient unit plans to lead a special-problems group for withdrawn patients. Which information will be of most assistance as the nurse prepares for this assignment?
a. Inpatient groups rarely have a lasting beneficial effect.
b. Inpatient groups have short-term, goal-oriented sessions.
c. Inpatient groups are helpful for patients with verbal skills.
d. Inpatient groups facilitate insight into deeply rooted life issues.
ANS: B
Because inpatient stays are so short and accountability is a major treatment issue, inpatient groups typically have short-term, goal-oriented sessions designed to teach patients more adaptive strategies for coping with life‘s problems. Beneficial effects are often lasting. Patients with or without verbal skills may be helped by selected types of groups. Insight-oriented therapy is conducted on an outpatient basis and usually occurs over the long term.
DIF: Cognitive level: Analyzing
TOP: Nursing process: Planning
MSC: Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity

2. A patient in a support group says, “I‘m tired of being sick. Everyone always helps me, but I’ll be glad when I can help someone else.” This statement reflects what therapeutic factor?
a. Altruism
b. Universality
c. Cohesiveness
d. Corrective recapitulation
ANS: A
Altruism refers to the experience of being helpful or useful to others, a condition that the patient anticipates will happen. The other options are also therapeutic factors identified by Yalom.
DIF: Cognitive level: Understanding
TOP: Nursing process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity

3. A positive outcome achieved after attending a special-problems group is evidenced by which patient statement?
a. “You’re a great group leader and kept things moving smoothly.”
b. “This experience wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.”
c. “I rely on the group to help me make decisions.”
d. “I learned how my anger affects other people.”
ANS: D
Learning more about one’s behavior and its effects on others is an appropriate outcome for group therapy. The other options do not reflect patient growth.
DIF: Cognitive level: Applying
TOP: Nursing process: Evaluation
MSC: Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity

Table of Contents

• Chapter 01: Me, Meds, Milieu
• Chapter 02: Historical Issues
• Chapter 03: Legal Issues
• Chapter 04: Psychobiologic Bases of Behavior
• Chapter 05: Cultural Issues
• Chapter 06: Spiritual Issues
• Chapter 07: Models for Working with Psychiatric Patients
• Chapter 08: Learning to Communicate Professionally
• Chapter 09: Working With an Individual Patient
• Chapter 10: Working With Groups of Patients
• Chapter 11: Working With the Family
• Chapter 12: Introduction to Psychotropic Drugs
• Chapter 13: Antiparkinsonian Drugs
• Chapter 14: Antipsychotic Drugs
• Chapter 15: Antidepressant Drugs
• Chapter 16: Antimanic Drugs
• Chapter 17: Antianxiety Drugs
• Chapter 18: Antidementia Drugs
• Chapter 19: Alternative Preparations and Over-the-Counter Drugs
• Chapter 20: Introduction to Milieu Management
• Chapter 21: Variables Affecting the Therapeutic Environment: Violence and Suicide
• Chapter 22: Therapeutic Environment in Various Treatment Settings
• Chapter 23: Introduction to Psychopathology
• Chapter 24: Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
• Chapter 25: Depressive Disorders
• Chapter 26: Bipolar Disorders
• Chapter 27: Anxiety-Related, Obsessive-Compulsive, Trauma- and Stressor-Related, Somatic, and Dissociative Disorders
• Chapter 28: Neurocognitive Disorders
• Chapter 29: Personality Disorders
• Chapter 30: Sexual Disorders and Gender Dysphoria
• Chapter 31: Substance Use Disorders
• Chapter 32: Eating Disorders
• Chapter 33: Survivors of Violence and Trauma
• Chapter 34: Children and Adolescents
• Chapter 35: Older Adults
• Chapter 36: Soldiers and Veterans

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