Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-
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1. A group of nursing students are reviewing information about the
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evolution of mental health care and are discussing the
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recommendations of the final report of the Joint Commission
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on Mental Illness and Health. The students demonstrate
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understanding of this information when they identify that the
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reportrecommended an increase in which of the following?
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A) Numbers of mental health hospitals y y y y
B) State funding for mental health care y y y y y
C) Clinics supplemented by general hospital units y y y y y
D) Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists
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2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association‟s
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Statement on Psychiatric Nursing Practice published in 1967,
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which sanctioned the involvement of psychiatricmental
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health nurses in the provision of holistic nursing care.
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Integrating knowledge of the various theories and views of
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mental health and illness, the nurse identifies which of the
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following as most strongly linked to this holistic approach?
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A) Sigmund Freud‟s psychoanalytic theory y y y
B) Florence Nightingale‟s Notes on Nursing y y y y
C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers‟ A Mind That Found Itself y y y y y y
E) Peplau‟s Interpersonal Relations in Nursing y y y y
3. A nursing instructor is preparing a presentation about key
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events and people that influenced the development of
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contemporary mental health and illness care. When describing
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the effects of World War II, which of the following would the
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instructor include?
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A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and
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acceptable.
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B) The biologic understanding of mental illness was almost fully
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developed.
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C) Deinstitutionalization y occurred y in y response y to ythe y community
health movement.
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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
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psychiatricmental health nursing and its place within nursing
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history. Which of the following would be most appropriate to
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include?
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A) Certification for the psychiatricmental health nursing y y y y y
specialty was first emphasized by MaryAdelaide Nutting.
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B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all y y y y y y y y
deinstitutionalized patients got treatment atcommunity
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mental health centers.
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C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program
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to admit male students and the first training school for
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psychiatric nursing.
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D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nurses was
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established in response to the publication of psychiatric
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nursing specialty journals.
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5. Two nursing students are discussing psychiatricmental
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health nursing and the role it has played in nursing‟s
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overall history. Which statement is most accurate?
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A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was
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stressed by Nightingale.
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B) The use of self-care to enhance the immune system was taught
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by Dorothea Dix.
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C) The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of
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deinstitutionalization.
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D) Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of
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therapeutic communication.
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6. When reviewing the evolution of mental health and illness care,
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which event is associated with mental disorders beginning to
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be viewed as illnesses requiring treatment?
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A) Establishment of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia y y y y y
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