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Brief excursions across professional boundaries that may be inadvertent, thoughtless or even purposeful if done to meet a specific therapeutic care need are known as:

A nurse, and Asian American patient and family meet to discuss the patients discharge. During the meeting, the patients speaks and makes eye contact only with the family. From a cultural perspective, how would the nurse interpret this behavior?

A nurse is planning care for the termination phase of the nurse-patient relationship. Which of the following actions should the nurse include in the plan of care?

When considering the work of Hildegard Peplau, which of the following activities should the nurse regularly engage in to ensure the patient stays the focus of all therapeutic conversations?

Which nursing response would indicate an empathetic approach to a patient who is depressed over recent losses in her life?

A patient is having difficulty making a decision about having ECT. The patient asks the nurse “What do you think I should do?” The nurse has mixed feelings about whether to provide advice. Which principle usually applies? Giving advice:

According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the nursing strategies a psychiatric nurse would use to assist in meeting self-esteem needs of elderly patients would include:

An evidence based therapeutic modality for children, adolescents, and adults that seeks to identify negative and irrational patterns of thought and seeks to challenge them based on rational evidence and thoughts is known as:

A patient tells the nurse, “I still have suicidal thoughts, but don’t tell anyone because I am supposed to be discharged today.” Select the nurse’s best course of action.

Emily is a 28 year old nurse who is working on a psychiatric unit. She is assigned to work with Jenna, a 27 year old who was admitted with major depressive disorder. Emily and Jenna realize they graduated from the same high school and each as a 2 year old daughter. Emily and Jenna discuss getting together for a play date with their daughters after Jenna is discharged. This situation reflects: