Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and
Evidence-Based Practice UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question 1.
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
ANSWER
C) Clinics supplemented by general hospital units
Question 2.
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
ANSWER
B) Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
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, Question 3.
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.
ANSWER
A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable.
Question 4.
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.
ANSWER
C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male students and the
first training school for psychiatric nursing.
Question 5.
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.
ANSWER
A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
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Evidence-Based Practice UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question 1.
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
ANSWER
C) Clinics supplemented by general hospital units
Question 2.
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
ANSWER
B) Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
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, Question 3.
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.
ANSWER
A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable.
Question 4.
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.
ANSWER
C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male students and the
first training school for psychiatric nursing.
Question 5.
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.
ANSWER
A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
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