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Sufayan.ah

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New opportunities for psychiatric nursing practice have emerged as psychiatric hospitals have changed from large institutions providing custodial care to:
 
  a. small units providing acute inpatient care.
  b. integrated clinical systems providing a full continuum of care.
  c. community-based home care systems focused on the chronically mentally ill.
  d. agencies more concerned with mental health promotion than providing direct care.

Question 2

A nurse is caring for a client with an injury to the temporal lobe of the brain. Which symptom should the nurse anticipate as a result of this injury?
 
  A) Anosmia
  B) Impaired visual perception
  C) Language impairment
  D) Taste disturbances



diana chang

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Answer to Question 1

B
Alternative treatment settings have emerged throughout the continuum of mental health care, and hospitals have responded by creating integrated clinical systems that provide inpatient care, partial hospitalization, day treatment, residential care, home care, and ambulatory care as part of the parent organization. Psychiatric nurses provide care in each of these settings as well as in community-based treatment settings such as shelters, schools, and HMOs.

Answer to Question 2

A



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