The psychiatric forensic nurse provides this description of work responsibilities: "I use knowledge of psychopathology as I investigate and reconstruct crimes and then try to understand a criminal's reasoning process. This allows me to compile information on what type of individual would have most likely committed the crime." The work the nurse describes is that of a
A) competency therapist.
B) hostage negotiator.
C) forensic examiner.
D) criminal profiler.

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Criminal profilers attempt to provide law enforcement with specific information and the type of individual who would have committed a certain crime. Profilers use behavioral and psychological indicators left at violent crime scenes and apply their understanding of psychopathology, attempt to reconstruct the crime, formulate hypotheses, and develop a profile, which is then tested against known data. The distracters refer to roles the psychiatric forensic nurse may fill, but none of these roles fits the description given in the scenario.

The Psychiatric Forensic Nurse Provides This Description of Work Responsibilities