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TEST BANK FOR PSYCHIATRIC NURSING CONTEMPORARY
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1. A group of nursing students are reviewing information about the evolution of mental
health care and are discussing the recommendations of the fin...
1. A group of nursing students are reviewing information about the evolution of mental
health care and are discussing the recommendations of the final report of the Joint
Commission on Mental Illness and Health. The students demonstrate understanding of this
information when they identify that the report recommended an increase in which of the
following?
A) Numbers of mental health hospitals
B) State funding for mental health care
C) Clinics supplemented by general hospital units
D) Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists
2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association's Statement on Psychiatric
Nursing Practice published in 1967, which sanctioned the involvement of psychiatric–
mental health nurses in the provision of holistic nursing care. Integrating knowledge of
the various theories and views of mental health and illness, the nurse identifies which
of the following as most strongly linked to this holistic approach?
A) Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers' A Mind That Found Itself
E) Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
3. A nursing instructor is preparing a presentation about key events and people that
influenced the development of contemporary mental health and illness care. When
describing the effects of World War II, which of the following would the instructor
include?
A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable.
B) The biologic understanding of mental illness was almost fully developed.
C) Deinstitutionalization occurred in response to the community health movement.
D) Mental illnesses became categorized as psychoses or neuroses.
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4. A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatric–mental health
nursing and its place within nursing history. Which of the following would be most
appropriate to include?
A) Certification for the psychiatric–mental health nursing specialty was first
emphasized by Mary Adelaide Nutting.
B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized patients got
treatment at community mental health centers.
C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male students
and the first training school for psychiatric nursing.
D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nurses was established in response to the
publication of psychiatric nursing specialty journals.
5. Two nursing students are discussing psychiatric–mental health nursing and the role it
has played in nursing's overall history. Which statement is most accurate?
A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
B) The use of self-care to enhance the immune system was taught by Dorothea Dix.
C) The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of deinstitutionalization.
D) Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of therapeutic communication.
6. When reviewing the evolution of mental health and illness care, which event is
associated with mental disorders beginning to be viewed as illnesses requiring
treatment?
A) Establishment of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia
B) Quaker establishment of asylums
C) Creation of the state hospital system
D) Freud's views on the causes of mental illnesses
7. A psychiatric–mental health nurse is working on a committee that is developing
programs that integrate the objectives for mental health and mental disorders as
identified in Healthy People 2020. Which type of program would be least appropriate?
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TEST BANK FOR PSYCHIATRIC NURSING CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE, 5TH EDITION, MARY ANN BOYD
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