Reflection Questions
1
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What is an example of therapeutic communication that might take place during the nursing assessment?
2
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As a nurse, what ways could you educate people to help decrease the stigma surrounding mental health?
3
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In what ways can nurses help their clients who have the potential for or are experiencing a mental illness or substance misuse?
4
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Using the chart in this chapter describing the levels of evidence, what are two examples of a high- and a low-level source?
5
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Which level do you think you would use if you wanted to make a hospital unit’s admission procedures more effective?
6
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If your clinical question was: “Would the addition of a checklist for unit admissions result in more relevant data being obtained over six months?” What would your PICOT format look like?