In ANCC’s Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Review Course Workbook, used to help the PMH Nurse to prepare for the board certification exam, there are 16 thought-provoking review questions for which they have provided no answers.Over the years, I’ve had several students ask me to help them sort through one or more of the questions in this workbook and then help them reach the correct answer. It’s always been a useful exercise for them because these questions, unlike the knowledge-based questions that most of us have grown used to in our in educational careers (e.g., “What are the side effects of lithium toxicity?”) force the reader to consider multiple variables and pieces of information all at once. There’s a lot to learn from each of these questions. But this is not just an answer key. Each question requires a full discussion, which this book provides for you.
Rationales in this book is helpful. The auth or not only has rationales for the correct answer but rationales for the wrong answers too. I learn more that way.