Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice 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 2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association9s 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? A) Sigmund Freud9s psychoanalytic theory B) Florence Nightingale9s Notes on Nursing C) Hildegarde D) Clifford Beers9 A Mind That Found Itself E) Peplau9s Interpersonal Relations in Nursing