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Starlight · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

A correctional nurse plans a health education series for prison inmates. Which topic is most important for the nurse to include in this series?

a. Sleep hygiene
b. Personal grooming
c. Social skills training
d. Assertive communication

Question 2

The psychiatric forensic nurse provides this description of work responsibilities: I use knowledge of psychopathology as I investigate and reconstruct crimes and then try to understand a criminal's reasoning process.

This allows me to compile information on what type of individual would have most likely committed the crime. The work the nurse describes is that of a:

a. competency therapist.
b. hostage negotiator.
c. forensic examiner.
d. criminal profiler.

todom5090 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
The most common mental health symptoms experienced by inmates are insomnia and hypersomnia; therefore, sleep hygiene would address these needs. Sleep is a basic physiological need that must be met before higher needs are addressed.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Criminal profilers attempt to provide law enforcement with specific information and the type of individual who would have committed a certain crime. Profilers use behavioral and psychological indicators left at violent crime scenes and apply their understanding of psychopathology, attempt to reconstruct the crime, formulate hypotheses, and develop a profile, which is then tested against known data. The distracters refer to roles the psychiatric forensic nurse may fill, but none of these roles fits the description given in the scenario.