When a Nursing Student Expresses Concerns About How Mental Health

question 10

Multiple Choice

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:

• A) "Psychiatric nurses practice in safer environments than other specialties. Nurse-to-patient ratios must be better because of the nature of the patients' problems."
• B) "Psychiatric nurses use complex communication skills as well as critical thinking to solve multidimensional problems. I am challenged by those situations."
• C) "That's a misconception. Psychiatric nurses frequently use high technology monitoring equipment and manage complex intravenous therapies."
• D) "Psychiatric nurses do not have to deal with as much pain and suffering as medical-surgical nurses do. That appeals to me."

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Definitions:

Critical Values

Specific points in the distribution of the test statistic beyond which the null hypothesis is rejected in hypothesis testing.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of values in a calculation that are free to vary without violating any constraints applied to the dataset, often impacting statistical significance testing.

Left Tail Area

refers to the portion of a distribution curve to the left of a specified value, often associated with finding probabilities in statistical analysis.

Degrees of Freedom

In statistics, the number of independent values or quantities that can be assigned to a statistical distribution.