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Table of Contents
1
Table of
Contents
Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based
Practice 2
Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Disorders6
Chapter 03: Cultural and Spiritual Issues Related to Mental Health Care
10
Chapter 04: Patient Rights and Legal Issues14
Chapter 05: Mental Health Care in the Community 18
Chapter 06: Ethics, Standards, and Nursing Frameworks 21
Chapter 07: Psychosocial Theoretic Basis of Psychiatric Nursing 25
Chapter 08: Biologic Foundations of Psychiatric Nursing 29
Chapter 09: Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship 33
Chapter 10: The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Process 37
Chapter 11: Psychopharmacology, Dietary Supplements, and Biologic
Interventions 41
Chapter 12: Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing 46
Chapter 13: Group Interventions 50
Chapter 14: Family Assessment and Interventions 54
Chapter 15: Mental Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents 58
Chapter 16: Mental Health Promotion for Young and Middle-Aged Adults
61
Chapter 17: Mental Health Promotion for Older Adults 64
Chapter 18: Stress and Mental Health 68
Chapter 19: Management of Anger, Aggression, and Violence 72
Chapter 20: Crisis, Loss, Grief, Response, Bereavement, and Disaster
Management 76
Chapter 21: Suicide Prevention: Screening, Assessment, and Intervention
80
Chapter 22: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: Nursing Care of
Persons with Thought
Disorders Ch
Chapter 23: Depression: Management of Depressive Moods and apt
Suicidal Behavior Chapter 24: Bipolar Disorders: Management of er
Mood Lability 25:
An
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xiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety, Phobia, and Panic Chapter 84
26: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders 92
Chapter 27: Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders 96
Chapter 28: Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder: 99
Management of Emotional Dysregulation and Self-Harm
103
105
106
Chapter 29: Antisocial Personality and Disruptive, Impulse Control, and
Conduct Disorders
109
Chapter 30: Addiction and Substance-Related Disorders 113
Chapter 31: Eating Disorders: Management of Eating and Weight 117
Chapter 32: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders 121
Chapter 33: Nursing Care of Persons with Insomnia and Sleep 125
Problems 129
Chapter 34: Sexual Disorders: Management of Sexual Dysfunction 132
and Paraphilias Chapter 35: Mental Health Assessment of Children
and Adolescents 135
Chapter 36: Mental Health Disorders of Childhood and 139
Adolescence Chapter 37: Mental Health Assessment of Older 142
Adults 146
Chapter 38: Neurocognitive Disorders 150
Chapter 39: Caring for Persons Who Are Homeless and Mentally 154
Ill Chapter 40: Caring for Persons With Co-occurring Mental 158
Disorders Chapter 41: Caring for Survivors of Violence and Abuse
162
Chapter 42: Caring for Persons With Mental Illness and Criminal
Behavior Chapter 43: Caring for Medically Compromised Persons
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Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based
Practice
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?
Numbers of mental health hospitals
State funding for mental health care
Clinics supplemented by general hospital units
A) Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists
A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association‟s Statement on Psychiatric Nursing Practice
published in 1967, which sanctioned the involvement of psychiatricmental 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?
Sigmund Freud‟s psychoanalytic theory
Florence Nightingale‟s Notes on Nursing
Hildegarde
Clifford Beers‟ A Mind That Found Itself
Peplau‟s Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
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 WarII,
which of the following would the instructor include?
People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable.
The biologic understanding of mental illness was almost fully developed.
Deinstitutionalization occurred in response to the community health movement.
Mental illnesses became categorized as psychoses or neuroses.
A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatricmental health nursing and its place
within nursing history. Which of the following would be most appropriate to include?
Certification for the psychiatricmental health nursing specialty was first emphasized by Mary Adelaide
Nutting.
Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized patients got treatment atcommunity
mental health centers.
There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male students and the first training
school for psychiatric nursing.
The first graduate program in psychiatric nurses was established in response to the publication of psychiatric
nursing specialty journals.
Two nursing students are discussing psychiatricmental health nursing and the role it has played in nursing‟s
overall history. Which statement is most accurate?
The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
The use of self-care to enhance the immune system was taught by Dorothea Dix.
The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of deinstitutionalization.
Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of therapeutic communication.
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?
Establishment of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia
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Quaker establishment of asylums
Creation of the state hospital system
Freud‟s views on the causes of mental illnesses
A psychiatricmental 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?
Single substance abuse treatment programs
Depression screening programs for primary care providers
Mental health programs for the homeless population
Employment programs for those with serious mental illness
A nursing instructor is describing the concept of evidence-based practice in psychiatricmental health
nursing. Which of the following would the instructor include as being important? Select all that apply.
Research findings
Expert opinion
Clinical experiences
Patient data
Established routines
The following events are important in the development of psychiatricmental health nursing practice. Which
event occurred first?
Publication of Standards of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing by the ANA
Publication of Standards of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Practice
Establishment of the first graduate program in psychiatric nursing at Rutgers University
Publication of the first psychiatric nursing text, Nursing Mental Disease, by Harriet Bailey
A nurse is preparing a presentation about the current status of mental health services in the United States.
Which statement would the nurse include as the most reflective of this status?
Mental health care in the United States is equally accessible to individuals.
Mental illness ranks second in terms of causing disability in comparison.
Mental health care primarily focuses on the cure of mental illness.
Mental health care services are inadequate and fragmented.
A group of students are reviewing the goals identified by the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health.
The students demonstrate understanding of this report when they identify which of the following as a
goal?
Mental health is viewed as one component of overall health.
The consumer and family are the driving forces for mental health care.
Screening is of greater importance than assessment and referral for services.
Disparities in mental health services are decreased.
The following are important legislative and policy efforts influencing current mental health care. Which of
the following is the most recent?
Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
Action for Mental Health
Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act
As part of a career day presentation to a group of nursing students, a psychiatricmental health nurse plans
to describe how this specialty developed. Which individual would the nurse describe as playing a major role
in the development of specialty training programs for psychiatric nurses?
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Hildegarde Peplau
Table of Contents
1
Table of
Contents
Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based
Practice 2
Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Disorders6
Chapter 03: Cultural and Spiritual Issues Related to Mental Health Care
10
Chapter 04: Patient Rights and Legal Issues14
Chapter 05: Mental Health Care in the Community 18
Chapter 06: Ethics, Standards, and Nursing Frameworks 21
Chapter 07: Psychosocial Theoretic Basis of Psychiatric Nursing 25
Chapter 08: Biologic Foundations of Psychiatric Nursing 29
Chapter 09: Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship 33
Chapter 10: The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Process 37
Chapter 11: Psychopharmacology, Dietary Supplements, and Biologic
Interventions 41
Chapter 12: Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing 46
Chapter 13: Group Interventions 50
Chapter 14: Family Assessment and Interventions 54
Chapter 15: Mental Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents 58
Chapter 16: Mental Health Promotion for Young and Middle-Aged Adults
61
Chapter 17: Mental Health Promotion for Older Adults 64
Chapter 18: Stress and Mental Health 68
Chapter 19: Management of Anger, Aggression, and Violence 72
Chapter 20: Crisis, Loss, Grief, Response, Bereavement, and Disaster
Management 76
Chapter 21: Suicide Prevention: Screening, Assessment, and Intervention
80
Chapter 22: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: Nursing Care of
Persons with Thought
Disorders Ch
Chapter 23: Depression: Management of Depressive Moods and apt
Suicidal Behavior Chapter 24: Bipolar Disorders: Management of er
Mood Lability 25:
An
,Test Bank - Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice (6th Edition by Boyd) 2
xiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety, Phobia, and Panic Chapter 84
26: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders 92
Chapter 27: Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders 96
Chapter 28: Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder: 99
Management of Emotional Dysregulation and Self-Harm
103
105
106
Chapter 29: Antisocial Personality and Disruptive, Impulse Control, and
Conduct Disorders
109
Chapter 30: Addiction and Substance-Related Disorders 113
Chapter 31: Eating Disorders: Management of Eating and Weight 117
Chapter 32: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders 121
Chapter 33: Nursing Care of Persons with Insomnia and Sleep 125
Problems 129
Chapter 34: Sexual Disorders: Management of Sexual Dysfunction 132
and Paraphilias Chapter 35: Mental Health Assessment of Children
and Adolescents 135
Chapter 36: Mental Health Disorders of Childhood and 139
Adolescence Chapter 37: Mental Health Assessment of Older 142
Adults 146
Chapter 38: Neurocognitive Disorders 150
Chapter 39: Caring for Persons Who Are Homeless and Mentally 154
Ill Chapter 40: Caring for Persons With Co-occurring Mental 158
Disorders Chapter 41: Caring for Survivors of Violence and Abuse
162
Chapter 42: Caring for Persons With Mental Illness and Criminal
Behavior Chapter 43: Caring for Medically Compromised Persons
,Test Bank - Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice (6th Edition by Boyd) 3
Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based
Practice
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?
Numbers of mental health hospitals
State funding for mental health care
Clinics supplemented by general hospital units
A) Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists
A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association‟s Statement on Psychiatric Nursing Practice
published in 1967, which sanctioned the involvement of psychiatricmental 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?
Sigmund Freud‟s psychoanalytic theory
Florence Nightingale‟s Notes on Nursing
Hildegarde
Clifford Beers‟ A Mind That Found Itself
Peplau‟s Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
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 WarII,
which of the following would the instructor include?
People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable.
The biologic understanding of mental illness was almost fully developed.
Deinstitutionalization occurred in response to the community health movement.
Mental illnesses became categorized as psychoses or neuroses.
A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatricmental health nursing and its place
within nursing history. Which of the following would be most appropriate to include?
Certification for the psychiatricmental health nursing specialty was first emphasized by Mary Adelaide
Nutting.
Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized patients got treatment atcommunity
mental health centers.
There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male students and the first training
school for psychiatric nursing.
The first graduate program in psychiatric nurses was established in response to the publication of psychiatric
nursing specialty journals.
Two nursing students are discussing psychiatricmental health nursing and the role it has played in nursing‟s
overall history. Which statement is most accurate?
The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
The use of self-care to enhance the immune system was taught by Dorothea Dix.
The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of deinstitutionalization.
Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of therapeutic communication.
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?
Establishment of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia
, Test Bank - Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice (6th Edition by Boyd) 4
Quaker establishment of asylums
Creation of the state hospital system
Freud‟s views on the causes of mental illnesses
A psychiatricmental 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?
Single substance abuse treatment programs
Depression screening programs for primary care providers
Mental health programs for the homeless population
Employment programs for those with serious mental illness
A nursing instructor is describing the concept of evidence-based practice in psychiatricmental health
nursing. Which of the following would the instructor include as being important? Select all that apply.
Research findings
Expert opinion
Clinical experiences
Patient data
Established routines
The following events are important in the development of psychiatricmental health nursing practice. Which
event occurred first?
Publication of Standards of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing by the ANA
Publication of Standards of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Practice
Establishment of the first graduate program in psychiatric nursing at Rutgers University
Publication of the first psychiatric nursing text, Nursing Mental Disease, by Harriet Bailey
A nurse is preparing a presentation about the current status of mental health services in the United States.
Which statement would the nurse include as the most reflective of this status?
Mental health care in the United States is equally accessible to individuals.
Mental illness ranks second in terms of causing disability in comparison.
Mental health care primarily focuses on the cure of mental illness.
Mental health care services are inadequate and fragmented.
A group of students are reviewing the goals identified by the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health.
The students demonstrate understanding of this report when they identify which of the following as a
goal?
Mental health is viewed as one component of overall health.
The consumer and family are the driving forces for mental health care.
Screening is of greater importance than assessment and referral for services.
Disparities in mental health services are decreased.
The following are important legislative and policy efforts influencing current mental health care. Which of
the following is the most recent?
Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
Action for Mental Health
Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act
As part of a career day presentation to a group of nursing students, a psychiatricmental health nurse plans
to describe how this specialty developed. Which individual would the nurse describe as playing a major role
in the development of specialty training programs for psychiatric nurses?
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Hildegarde Peplau
