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Scenario A PMHNP discovers her colleague is diverting scheduled medications to self-medicate anxiety. The PMHNP reports the concerns to the colleagues supervisor. Rationale The PMHNP recognizes signs/symptoms of psychiatric disorders in the workplace reporting peer observations to leadership. The PMHNP helps address problems faced by colleagues that impact client safety or violate public trust, including substance abuse. {Ans: Contributions to Healthcare Environments}is a team treatment approach to provide comprehensive, community-based psychiatric treatment, rehabilitation, and support to persons with severe mental illness (SMI). It provides individualized service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. {Ans: Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)}What Act allowed for the expansion of the PMHCNS role into community and ambulatory settings as they helped those who had been deinstitutionalized adapt (ANA, 2014). {Ans: The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963}The PMHNP prescribes or recommends pharmacologic agents and may order and interpret diagnostic and lab tests to assess treatment response or monitor for adverse effects. {Ans: Psychopharmacological management}The PMHNP engages in the design, implementation, management, and evaluation of programs, systems, or policies to address the mental health needs of a population at risk for developing mental health problems through prevention, health promotion, identification and