2 guides on this topic
Mental health nursing
What each mental health nursing question is really asking, how to structure the answer, and where the marks are likely to sit.
Assessing and treating an adult mood disorder
Mental health nursing
The assignment states the three tests up front — severity, functional impact and duration — and a diagnosis that satisfies only one of them is the commonest failure in this case.
Suicide screening, prevention and the case of John
Mental health nursing
You choose two of the questions, so choose the two you can evidence. The homelessness-and-mental-illness question is the richest, and the honest answer is that causation runs both ways.