The following questions may or may not appear in a test.
The statement that best describes the professional values of a registered psychiatric nurse is?
- Caring, compassion, commitment, integrity, honesty, respect and empathy
- Maleficence, distrust, disrespect, unprofessionalism
- Disregard, incompetence, racism, theft
- Recklessness, dishonesty, lack of regard for human life
The safe practice of a registered psychiatric nurse requires the practitioner to do what?
- Assess, plan, prioritise, deliver and evaluate patient care based on their own knowledge and accord
- Assess, plan, prioritise, deliver and evaluate patient care based upon a thorough knowledge and understanding of safe effective care choosing interventions that are based upon best evidence and desired goals of the person
- Assess, plan, prioritise, and deliver care based upon your own personal belief system
- Assess, plan, prioritise, deliver and evaluate patient care in a manner in which the patient believes and desires
The safe practice of a registered psychiatric nurse requires the practitioner to do what?
- Practice and manage patient care on their own with a focus on the patient’s mental illness
- Practice and manage patient care based on interdependency
- Practice in a collaborative manner with the multidisciplinary team to enhance the person’s wellbeing, recovery, independence and safety
- Practice in as an individual disregarding the other member’s of the nursing team
A recovery-oriented approach to patient care in mental health is best described as what?
- The medical model
- The behavioural model
- The social model
- An interpersonal engagement built on the principles of recovery, person-centredness, inclusion, empathy, advocacy and listening to the narrative of the service user
A registered psychiatric nurse focuses on meeting an individual’s needs through which of the following?
- Providing an overview of the mental health interventions on offer by the public service
- Providing an overview of the mental health interventions on offer by private healthcare
- Providing a supportive collaborative partnership with the patient and family through members of the multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality clinical impact
- Referring the individual to the Day Hospital Services
Which of the following is not a key principle of the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives in Ireland?
- Respect for the dignity of the person
- Professional responsibility and accountability
- Quality of practice
- Jurisprudence and the law
In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM (V), the axis for identifying all major psychiatric disorders is known as what?
- Axis I
- Axis II
- Axis III
- Axis IV
Pharmacokinetics is the study of the way in which of the following?
- Drugs move through the body
- Drugs effect the body
- The potency and efficacy of drugs effect the body
- Drugs cause adverse effects in the body
Pharmacodynamics is the term used to describe which of the following?
- The duration of action of a drug on the body
- The effects of a drug on the body
- The way in which drugs move through the body
- Absorption, metabolism, distribution and excretion in the body
Benzodiazepines as anxiolytics act in the central nervous system by lowering activation within which of the following?
- Temporal lobe
- Occipital lobe
- The limbic system within the amygdala
- Hypothalamus
