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NEEBS Mental Health Nursing 1-9 Questions with Correct Answers
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NEEBS Mental Health Nursing 1-9 Questions withCorrect Answers
Who has been called the founder of nursing? Correct Answer-Florence
Nightingale
Who was the predecessor to today's sterile techniques? Correct Answer-
Florence Nightingale
She understood that the mind and body work together and that
cleanliness is a major barrier to infection and promotes healing.
Who was the crusader for the improvement of care and conditions in the
military and civilian hospitals in Britain?
She wrote Notes on Hospitals
Notes on Nursing Correct Answer-Florence Nightingale
What was the first formal nurses' training program that opened in 1860?
Correct Answer-The Nightingale School for Nurses
Who was Dorothea Dix? Correct Answer-A school teacher who stood up
for the rights of the mentally insane and the disabled.
Because of the efforts of Dorothea Dix some states developed what?
Correct Answer-Asylums "psychiatric hospitals"
,Who was Linda Richards? Correct Answer-The first trained nurse in
America. She opened the Boston City Hospital Training School for
Nurses to specialize in training nurses to care for the mentally ill.
Who is Effie Jane Taylor? Correct Answer-She is well known for her
development and implementation of patient-centered care, putting
emphasis on the emotional and intellectual life of the patient.
Who is Hildegard Peplau? Correct Answer-- Considered "Mother of
Psychiatric Nursing"
- Believed in the science and art of nursing
- Introduced the concept of advanced practice nursing
- Introduced the standards of professional nursing and credentialing
- Theory of Interpersonal Relations
What are asylums? Correct Answer-a type of institution that first
became popular in the sixteenth century to provide care for people with
mental disorders
What are free standing treatment centers? Correct Answer-They are also
known as detox centers
Most familiar known Betty Ford Center
crisis only based or 21 day stay
when were psychotropic drugs developed? Correct Answer-1950s
, What is a well known psychotropic medication? what does it do Correct
Answer-phenothiazines-thorazine
calms and tranquilizes
True of false
The number of hospitalized mental ill patients in 1950-1970 went up.
Correct Answer-False
the number was actually cut in half from previously
What is deinstitutionalization? Correct Answer-the practice of releasing
hundreds of thousands of patients from mental hospitals (began in 1960)
large decline in facilities because of new laws and the use of
phenothiazines
What is ANA? Correct Answer-the American Nurses Association sets
the clinical nursing standards and lobbies state & federal lawmakers to
advance the profession of nursing
Who provides leadership in recommending standards of care for nurses
who care for people with mental illnesses? Correct Answer-APNA
The American Psychiatric Nurses Association
What is the Nurse Practice Act? Correct Answer-In each state, statutory
law directs entry into nursing practice, defines the scope of practice, and
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