Chapter 1 Reflections
Reflection Questions
1. What is an example of therapeutic communication that might take place during the nursing assessment?
2. As a nurse, what ways could you educate people to help decrease the stigma surrounding mental health?
3. In what ways can nurses help their clients who have the potential for or are experiencing a mental illness or substance misuse?
4. Using the chart in this chapter describing the levels of evidence, what are two examples of a high- and a low-level source?
5. Which level do you think you would use if you wanted to make a hospital unit’s admission procedures more effective?
6. 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?
