Question 11 Evidenced based guidelines for patient treatment are...

 

Question 11

Evidenced based guidelines for patient treatment are based on which of the following?

A.

Consensus of expert panel

B.

Systematic reviews of case studies.

C.

Systematic reviews of randomized controlled studies (RTC).

D.

A and C

 

Question 12

Which of the following is true about the CBT cognitive processes of primary and secondary thinking?

A.

Primary thinking recognizes the indeterminate, negative and irrational thinking as forever part of human action.

B.

Secondary thinking recognizes the indeterminate, negative and irrational thinking as foremost.

C.

Primary thinking views the social and cultural world in determinate, positive and rational terms.

D.

B and C

 

Question 13

Internal resources include which of the following?

A.

Internal resources are more tangible than external resources

B.

Internal resources consist of the person's ability to manage primarily negative emotions

C.

Internal resources include the person's ability to self-soothe, demonstrate adequate impulse control, and regulate moods.

D.

Are intuitive and easily measured

 

Question 14

According to Benner's role acquisition model, the advanced practice psychiatric nurse with 2-5 years of experience, who coordinates complex care and sees situations as wholes with long-term solutions, is functioning at which level of competency?

A.

Novice

B.

Advanced beginner

C.

Competency/proficiency

D.

Expert

 

Question 15

According to H. Peplau (1991) self-awareness for the advanced practice psychiatric nurse

A.

Is key to understanding others

B.

Increases likelihood therapist acts out their own agenda.

C.

Allows for nurse-patient boundaries to be safely ignored to better meet patient needs.

D.

Undermines objectivity

 

Question 16

It is important for the new nurse psychotherapist to become comfortable with which of the following?

A.

Learning to be directive to help the patient feel better.

B.

Letting the psychotherapeutic process unfold over time.

C.

Helping the patient feel better is the main goal of psychotherapy

D.

Building a therapeutic toolbox for a variety of "fix it" solutions for a variety of problems.

 

Question 18

In classical psychodynamic therapy the therapist's role is which of the following?

A.

Objective

B.

Subjective

C.

Participant-Observer

D.

Enmeshed

 

Question 19

If a health care professional terminates treatment because of managed care failure to authorize the session who is liable for harm based upon abandonment of the treatment.

A.

The health care provider

B.

The managed care company.

C.

The individual at the managed care company who failed to authorize necessary treatment.

D.

All of the above

Question 20

Which of the following is not consistent with therapeutic process of the corrective recapitulation of the primary family group in group psychotherapy?

A.

The therapeutic value is that early familial conflicts are simply relived.

B.

The therapeutic value is that early familial conflicts are relived correctively.

C.

Fixed roles must be constantly explored and challenged.

D.

Working out problems in the group setting is also working through unfinished business from long ago.