Neebs Mental Health FINAL Dochorecker Questions
with correct answers
Who has been called the founder of nursing?
The mortality rate went from 42.7% to 2.2% Correct Answer-Who is
Florence Nightingale?
Who was a school teacher, not a nurse?
Her primary focus was on the care of prisoners and the mentally ill?
Correct Answer-Who is Dorothea Dix?
Who opened the Boston City Hospital Training School for Nurses?
It was opened to specialize care for the mentally ill. Correct Answer-
Linda Richards.
What organizations helped develop schools and programs to teach
nurses how to properly care for the mentally ill? Correct Answer-
American Nurses Association (ANA)
National League for Nursing (NLN)
Who initiated the first psychiatric program of study for nurses? Correct
Answer-Effie Jane Taylor
Dr. Peplau believed nurses should provide type of services? Correct
Answer-She believed that nurses should take every opportunity to
educate the public and be role models.
,1. Resource person, provides information
2.Counselor, helps patients to explore their thoughts and feelings
3. Surrogate, role-playing or other means to help the pt explore and
identify feelings from the past
4. Technical support, coordinates professional services.
How did Dr. Peplau see the nurse as? Correct Answer-A resource
person, provides info
A counselor, helps patients to explore their feelings
Surrogate, role-play scenarios
Technical support, coordinate professional services
What are the 4 stages of a therapeutic relationship, between a nurse and
patient.
(Peplau,, 1952) Correct Answer-1. Orientation, Pt feels a need and a will
to seek out help
2.Identification, nurse-pt relationship are identified
3.Exploration, pt will begin to show motivation in problem-solving, may
test the nurse
4. Resolution, Focus in pts developing self-responsibility and showing
personal growth
,Who standardizes the nursing practice in the United states> Correct
Answer-The ANA
Every state has adopted its own code or set of rules by which all nurses
are expected to perform, which is this known as? Correct Answer-The
Nurse Practice Act
What organization is dedicated exclusively to the promotion of quality
nursing for LPNs and LVNs? Correct Answer-NAPNES
What was the 1st major law addressing mental health, and it provided
money to build psychiatric units in hospitals? Correct Answer-The Hill-
Burton Act
What major breakthrough of the 1950s lead to the deinstitutionalization
movement? Correct Answer-development of psychotropic medications
What group of psychotropic medication came out in the 1950s? Correct
Answer-phenothiazines, calming and tranquilizing effect on people.
What are the parts of communication theory? Correct Answer-sender
message
receiver
What is aggressive communication? Correct Answer-Communication
that is not self-responsible.
, "you"
What is assertive communication? Correct Answer-Self-responsible
communication
"i"
What is active and purposeful listening "listening between the lines"
used for? Correct Answer-Successful therapeutic communication
What is ethics? Correct Answer-They are one's own values
What is proxemics? Correct Answer-It concerns space, time, and
waiting.
US-northern states tend to be more rushed, vs southern states life is a bit
slower-paced
What is HIPAA? Correct Answer-Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act
This allows communication between medical information between
patients, providers, employers and insurers. It allows more control of the
part of the patient as to what part his/her information is disclosed.
Correct Answer-HIPAA
What is the leading national accrediting body of health-care
organizations? Correct Answer-Joint Commission
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