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rosent76 · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

The mother of a young child diagnosed with conduct disorder asks the nurse to recommend a qualified nurse to provide family therapy. The nurse knows that:

1. Nurse family therapists should be clinical specialists or advanced practitioners in mental health nursing.
2. Nurses with a bachelor's degree are qualified to provide family therapy if they are nationally certified in mental health nursing.
3. Nurses are not reimbursed by third party insurers to provide family therapy.
4. Nurses specializing in family therapy are expensive and it is difficult to get a timely appointment.

Question 2

While caring for the client with a mental illness, which action by the psychiatricmental health nurse best indicates use of Hildegard Peplau's nursing theory?

1. Establishing a therapeutic nurse-client relationship
2. Intervening to enhance the client's abilities to perform self-care
3. Assessing client's interactions with their environment
4. Evaluating the effectiveness of the client's coping and adaptation skills

Cheesycrackers · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

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Rationale: Family therapists should be specially educated in the practice of family therapy and strongly committed to a belief in the importance of the family. Nurse family therapists should be clinical specialists or advanced practitioners prepared in graduate programs that provide both theory and supervised clinical practice in this specialized area. All other statements are false.

Answer to Question 2

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Rationale: Peplau conceptualized the one-to-one nurseclient relationship in which the client can accomplish developmental tasks and practice healthy behaviors. Dorothea Orem identified the goal of self-care and focused on the client's abilities to perform self-care to maintain life, health, and well-being. Martha Rogers' work gave psychiatric nurses a mandate to use holistic principles and to consider human beings and environmental interactions. Sister Callista Roy's adaptation theory related the notion of coping or adapting to stimuli as humans interact with their environment.