A family seeks counseling at a community mental health center. The husband says to a nurse, Every time we start to discuss rules for the children, we get into shouting matches. We can't ever settle on anything. We just shout at each other.
The nurse instructs the husband and wife to shout at each other for the next 2 weeks on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 to 7 P.M. This intervention is called:
A) Reframing.
B) Restructuring the family.
C) Expressive psychotherapy.
D) Paradoxical intervention.
Question 2
In order to accurately predict how the body absorbs, distributes, metabolizes, and eliminates psychotropic medications the nurse must be familiar with a medication's:
a. half-life.
b. side effects.
c. pharmacokinetics.
d. therapeutic dosage range.
The tone of the nurse-patient introduction sets the stage for the patient interview and patient care
The nurse assesses the patient's ability to use the walker correctly
Home Health Nurse.
An example of an intake screen in an electronic health record.
Most Commonly Diagnosed Mental Disorders
Hydrothermal Vent Community