Chapter 1: Psychiatric -Mental Health
Nursing Exam Questions with Verified
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Phenomena of concern for psychiatric-mental health nurses are dynamic, exist in all
populations across the lifespan and include but are not limited to: - CORRECT
ANSWER-Promotion of optimal mental and physical health and well-being
Prevention of mental and behavioral distress and illness
Promotion of social inclusion of mentally and behaviorally fragile individuals
Co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders
Co-occurring mental health and physical disorders
Alterations in thinking, perceiving, communicating, and functioning related to
psychological and physiologic distress
Psychological and physiologic distress resulting from physical, interpersonal, and/or
environmental trauma or neglect
Psychogenesis and individual vulnerability
Complex clinical presentations confounded by poverty and poor, inconsistent, or toxic
environmental factors
,Alterations in self-concept related to loss of physical organs and/or limbs, psychic
trauma, developmental conflicts, or injury Individual, family, or group isolation and
difficulty with interpersonal relations
Self-harm and self-destructive behaviors including mutilation and suicide
Violent behavior including physical abuse, sexual abuse, and bullying Low health
literacy rates contributing to treatment nonadherence
psychiatric-mental health nursing is defined as - CORRECT ANSWER-the "nursing
practice specialty committed to promoting mental health through the assessment,
diagnosis, and treatment of behavioral problems, mental disorders, and comorbid
conditions across the lifespan
Psychiatric-mental health nursing intervention is an art and a science, employing
purposeful use of - CORRECT ANSWER-self and a wide range of nursing,
psychosocial, and neurobiologic evidence to produce effective outcomes"
The roots of contemporary psychiatric-mental health nursing can be traced to -
CORRECT ANSWER-Florence Nightingale's holistic view of a patient who lives within a
family and community
She was especially sensitive to human emotions and recommended interactions that
today would be classified as therapeutic communication
Florence Nightingale's intervention for reducing anxiety about an illness was to -
CORRECT ANSWER-encourage independence and self-care
, Linda Richards, the first trained nurse in the United States, opened the first school of
nursing in - CORRECT ANSWER-Boston City Hospital Training School for Nurses in
1882 at McLean Hospital, a mental health facility
Employees of McLean were recruited into the nursing program to learn to - CORRECT
ANSWER-provide physical care for patients with mental disorders who developed
medical illnesses
In 1913, Effie Taylor integrated psychiatric nursing content into - CORRECT ANSWER-
the curriculum at Johns Hopkins' Phipps Clinic
Taylor, like Nightingale before her, encouraged nurses to - CORRECT ANSWER-avoid
the dichotomy of mind and body
The first psychiatric nursing textbook, Nursing Mental Disease, was written by -
CORRECT ANSWER-Harriet Bailey in 1920
nursing education programs in psychiatric hospitals were phased into mainstream -
CORRECT ANSWER-nursing education programs (Peplau, 1989)
As psychiatric-mental health nursing developed as a profession in the 20th century,
modern perspectives of mental illness emerged, and these new theorie - CORRECT
ANSWER-profoundly shaped mental health care
As psychiatric-mental health nursing developed as a profession in the 20th century,
modern perspectives of mental illness emerged, and these new theories - CORRECT
ANSWER-profoundly shaped mental health care
In 1952, Hildegard E. Peplau published the landmark work - CORRECT ANSWER-
Interpersonal Relations in Nursing (Peplau, 1952).
Nursing Exam Questions with Verified
Solutions Rated A+
Phenomena of concern for psychiatric-mental health nurses are dynamic, exist in all
populations across the lifespan and include but are not limited to: - CORRECT
ANSWER-Promotion of optimal mental and physical health and well-being
Prevention of mental and behavioral distress and illness
Promotion of social inclusion of mentally and behaviorally fragile individuals
Co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders
Co-occurring mental health and physical disorders
Alterations in thinking, perceiving, communicating, and functioning related to
psychological and physiologic distress
Psychological and physiologic distress resulting from physical, interpersonal, and/or
environmental trauma or neglect
Psychogenesis and individual vulnerability
Complex clinical presentations confounded by poverty and poor, inconsistent, or toxic
environmental factors
,Alterations in self-concept related to loss of physical organs and/or limbs, psychic
trauma, developmental conflicts, or injury Individual, family, or group isolation and
difficulty with interpersonal relations
Self-harm and self-destructive behaviors including mutilation and suicide
Violent behavior including physical abuse, sexual abuse, and bullying Low health
literacy rates contributing to treatment nonadherence
psychiatric-mental health nursing is defined as - CORRECT ANSWER-the "nursing
practice specialty committed to promoting mental health through the assessment,
diagnosis, and treatment of behavioral problems, mental disorders, and comorbid
conditions across the lifespan
Psychiatric-mental health nursing intervention is an art and a science, employing
purposeful use of - CORRECT ANSWER-self and a wide range of nursing,
psychosocial, and neurobiologic evidence to produce effective outcomes"
The roots of contemporary psychiatric-mental health nursing can be traced to -
CORRECT ANSWER-Florence Nightingale's holistic view of a patient who lives within a
family and community
She was especially sensitive to human emotions and recommended interactions that
today would be classified as therapeutic communication
Florence Nightingale's intervention for reducing anxiety about an illness was to -
CORRECT ANSWER-encourage independence and self-care
, Linda Richards, the first trained nurse in the United States, opened the first school of
nursing in - CORRECT ANSWER-Boston City Hospital Training School for Nurses in
1882 at McLean Hospital, a mental health facility
Employees of McLean were recruited into the nursing program to learn to - CORRECT
ANSWER-provide physical care for patients with mental disorders who developed
medical illnesses
In 1913, Effie Taylor integrated psychiatric nursing content into - CORRECT ANSWER-
the curriculum at Johns Hopkins' Phipps Clinic
Taylor, like Nightingale before her, encouraged nurses to - CORRECT ANSWER-avoid
the dichotomy of mind and body
The first psychiatric nursing textbook, Nursing Mental Disease, was written by -
CORRECT ANSWER-Harriet Bailey in 1920
nursing education programs in psychiatric hospitals were phased into mainstream -
CORRECT ANSWER-nursing education programs (Peplau, 1989)
As psychiatric-mental health nursing developed as a profession in the 20th century,
modern perspectives of mental illness emerged, and these new theorie - CORRECT
ANSWER-profoundly shaped mental health care
As psychiatric-mental health nursing developed as a profession in the 20th century,
modern perspectives of mental illness emerged, and these new theories - CORRECT
ANSWER-profoundly shaped mental health care
In 1952, Hildegard E. Peplau published the landmark work - CORRECT ANSWER-
Interpersonal Relations in Nursing (Peplau, 1952).
