Introduction to mental Health Nursing
1. what is mental health nursing: a specialized area of nursing practice committed
to promoting mental health throughout the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of
human resources to mental health problems and psychiatric disorders
2. who created a holistic approach to nursing: Florence nightingale
3. who recommended therapeutic communication and stated that reducing
anxiety about an illness is a way to encourage independence and self
care?: Florence nightingale
4. The first trained nurse in the US: Linda richards
5. they opened Boston city hospital training school for nurses in 1882 at
McLean Hospital (a psychiatric facility) and provided physical care for
psychiatric patients who developed medical illnesses: Linda Richards
6. who integrated psychiatric nursing content into the curriculum at John
Hopkins phipps clinic.: Effie Taylor
7. what two people encourages RNs to avoid the dichotomy of mind and
body: Nightingale and Taylor
8. who wrote the first psychology textbook: Harriet Bailey
9. who was the first published nursing theorist after Florence nightingale:
Hildegard Peplau
10. who wrote interpersonal relations in nursing and introduced psychiatric
mental health nursing practice to the concepts of interpersonal relations
and the therapeutic relationship: Hildegard peplau
11. who conceptualized nursing practice as independent of physicians:
Peplau
12. who established first graduate level program for the preparation of
clinical specialists in psychiatric nursing: Peplau
13. who established the following:
1. therapeutic use of self
2. nursing practice independent of physicians: peplau
14. in 1952, peplau was apart of was requirement: accredited schools require
and offer a psychiatric nursing experience
15. in 1967, peplau was about of what: division of psych and mental health
nursing first statement on psychiatric nursing practice. making it the 1st official
sanction of holistic approach of psychiatric mental health nursing.
16. what was known as moral treatment: the use of kindness, compassion, and
a pleasant environment (best for safety and comfort)
17. what was insanity views as: an illness
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, 18. what was considered barbaric behavior: existing primitive treatments such
as blood letting and ice baths
19. what was considered the safe haven: asylums
20 what was the drawback with the moral treatment method: not always
receiving treatment and often treated inhumanely
21. the moral treatment era was when: 1790 - 1900
22. what was going on in the 1700's: colonial era in which "lunatics" were
thought to be possessed by the devil and treated by removing and/or locking
away, bleeding, purgatives, ice baths, trauma to the head, whippings
23. what was going on in the 1800's: moral management
24. what are examples of moral management: kirkbride plan of recruitment, fresh
air , work programs, "back wards" and Dorthea Dix's advocacy
25. what was happening in the 1900's: the proliferation of asylums
26. who was appointed superintendent of Pennsylvania hospital for the
insane in 1840: Thomas story kirkbride
27. what was the kirkbride plan: patients should have rights, fresh air, exercise,
and an opportunity to see outside
28. why did Kirkbride maximize angles in his asylums: for light solariums
29. how was Kirkbride set up his asylums: asylum architecture in the form of a
giant bat. administrative offices as body with back wards on the tip of the
wings
30. in the early 1800's state government was mandated to assume what:
financial responsibility for the care of people with mental illnesses
31. who was the crusader for humane treatment of patients with mental
illnesses: Dorthea Dix
32. who convinced state after state to build state hospitals for the mentally
ill: Dorthea Dix
33. what 3 things was Dorthea Dix on top of: 1. appalled by deplorable
conditions in prisons, poor houses, and reformatories
2. Union's superintendent of female nurses during the civil war
3. by 1880 she had direct hand in founding 32 of 123 mental hospitals in the
country
34. when was institutionalization: 1900 to 1955
35. what was institutionalization and what was wrong with it: - the forced
confinement of individuals in state hospitals for long periods of time.
- the outcomes were negative
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1. what is mental health nursing: a specialized area of nursing practice committed
to promoting mental health throughout the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of
human resources to mental health problems and psychiatric disorders
2. who created a holistic approach to nursing: Florence nightingale
3. who recommended therapeutic communication and stated that reducing
anxiety about an illness is a way to encourage independence and self
care?: Florence nightingale
4. The first trained nurse in the US: Linda richards
5. they opened Boston city hospital training school for nurses in 1882 at
McLean Hospital (a psychiatric facility) and provided physical care for
psychiatric patients who developed medical illnesses: Linda Richards
6. who integrated psychiatric nursing content into the curriculum at John
Hopkins phipps clinic.: Effie Taylor
7. what two people encourages RNs to avoid the dichotomy of mind and
body: Nightingale and Taylor
8. who wrote the first psychology textbook: Harriet Bailey
9. who was the first published nursing theorist after Florence nightingale:
Hildegard Peplau
10. who wrote interpersonal relations in nursing and introduced psychiatric
mental health nursing practice to the concepts of interpersonal relations
and the therapeutic relationship: Hildegard peplau
11. who conceptualized nursing practice as independent of physicians:
Peplau
12. who established first graduate level program for the preparation of
clinical specialists in psychiatric nursing: Peplau
13. who established the following:
1. therapeutic use of self
2. nursing practice independent of physicians: peplau
14. in 1952, peplau was apart of was requirement: accredited schools require
and offer a psychiatric nursing experience
15. in 1967, peplau was about of what: division of psych and mental health
nursing first statement on psychiatric nursing practice. making it the 1st official
sanction of holistic approach of psychiatric mental health nursing.
16. what was known as moral treatment: the use of kindness, compassion, and
a pleasant environment (best for safety and comfort)
17. what was insanity views as: an illness
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, 18. what was considered barbaric behavior: existing primitive treatments such
as blood letting and ice baths
19. what was considered the safe haven: asylums
20 what was the drawback with the moral treatment method: not always
receiving treatment and often treated inhumanely
21. the moral treatment era was when: 1790 - 1900
22. what was going on in the 1700's: colonial era in which "lunatics" were
thought to be possessed by the devil and treated by removing and/or locking
away, bleeding, purgatives, ice baths, trauma to the head, whippings
23. what was going on in the 1800's: moral management
24. what are examples of moral management: kirkbride plan of recruitment, fresh
air , work programs, "back wards" and Dorthea Dix's advocacy
25. what was happening in the 1900's: the proliferation of asylums
26. who was appointed superintendent of Pennsylvania hospital for the
insane in 1840: Thomas story kirkbride
27. what was the kirkbride plan: patients should have rights, fresh air, exercise,
and an opportunity to see outside
28. why did Kirkbride maximize angles in his asylums: for light solariums
29. how was Kirkbride set up his asylums: asylum architecture in the form of a
giant bat. administrative offices as body with back wards on the tip of the
wings
30. in the early 1800's state government was mandated to assume what:
financial responsibility for the care of people with mental illnesses
31. who was the crusader for humane treatment of patients with mental
illnesses: Dorthea Dix
32. who convinced state after state to build state hospitals for the mentally
ill: Dorthea Dix
33. what 3 things was Dorthea Dix on top of: 1. appalled by deplorable
conditions in prisons, poor houses, and reformatories
2. Union's superintendent of female nurses during the civil war
3. by 1880 she had direct hand in founding 32 of 123 mental hospitals in the
country
34. when was institutionalization: 1900 to 1955
35. what was institutionalization and what was wrong with it: - the forced
confinement of individuals in state hospitals for long periods of time.
- the outcomes were negative
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