When a Nursing Student Expresses Concerns About How Mental Health

question 21

Multiple Choice

When a nursing student expresses concerns about how mental health nurses "lose all their nursing skills," which of the following is the best response by the mental health nurse?

• A) "Psychiatric nurses practise 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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