Which belief will best support a nurse’s efforts to provide patient advocacy during a multidisciplinary patient care planning session?

A nurse interacts with a newly hospitalized patient. Select the nurse’s comment that applies the communication technique of “offering self.”

A Category V tornado hits a community, destroying many homes and businesses. Which nursing intervention would best demonstrate compassion and caring?

A patient diagnosed with schizophrenia lives in the community. On a home visit, the community psychiatric nurse case manager learns that the patient:•  wants to attend an activity group at the mental health outreach center. •  is worried about being able to pay for the therapy.•  does not know how to get from home to the outreach center.•  has an appointment to have blood work at the same time an activity group meets.•  wants to attend services at a church that is a half-mile from the patient’s home.Which tasks are part of the role of a community mental health nurse? Select all that apply.

When a nursing student expresses concerns about how mental health nurses “lose all their nursing skills,” the best response by the mental health nurse is:

I would like to observe the rate of cellular respiration of naked mole rats at different temperatures. What would my dependent variable be?

A nurse performed these actions while caring for patients in an inpatient psychiatric setting. Which action violated patients’ rights?

The nurse is making a home visit to a patient who was discharged from the hospital on Lovenox and warfarin following replacement of the patient’s pacemaker. Which observation indicates excessive bleeding? (Select all that apply.)

The case manager plans to discuss the treatment plan with a patient’s family. Select the case manager’s first action.

Clinical pathways are used in managed care settings to: