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Welcome to Psychiatric-Nursing

Psychiatric virtual clinical is the latest in online learning geared toward helping nursing students learn how to Recognize Psychiatric Behaviors, Prioritize Patients, and Assign Nurse Interventions!
This software provides nursing students with the opportunity to acquire more triaging experience than they could possibly receive in a normal clinical rotation!
Imagine, patients arriving in the Psychiatric Day Room with acuities ranging from Mild to Panic Stress. As the nurse, you must decide the correct acuity to be assigned for the patient's given behavior. You must then properly assign a correct nursing action for patient current behavior. Be careful, each sequential mistake will cost you!!
A - Phase One- Match the psychiatric definition to the correct term.
B - Phase Two- Match the psychiatric term to each patient scenario.
C - Phase Three - Select the appropriate medication for each patient.
D - Phase Four - Correctly identify the adverse drug reactions for the medication.
E - Phase Five - Patients in the day room need to be assessed for the level of stress and assigned a nursing action.

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Final answer:

Clinical psychology focuses on diagnosing and treating psychological disorders, while counseling psychology focuses on improving aspects of the lives of psychologically healthy individuals.B - Phase Two- Match the psychiatric term to each patient scenario.

Step-by-step explanation:

Clinical psychology is the area of psychology that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and other problematic patterns of behavior. Some clinicians are also actively engaged in scientific research. Counseling psychology is a similar discipline that focuses on emotional, social, vocational, and health-related outcomes in individuals who are considered psychologically healthy.

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