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Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
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Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Disorders
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Chapter 03: Cultural and Spiritual Issues Related to Mental Health Care
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Chapter 04: Patient Rights and Legal Issues
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Chapter 05: Mental Health Care in the Community
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Chapter 06: Ethics, Standards, and Nursing Frameworks
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Chapter 07: Psychosocial Theoretic Basis of Psychiatric Nursing
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Chapter 08: Biologic Foundations of Psychiatric Nursing
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Chapter 09: Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship
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Chapter 10: The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Process
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Chapter 11: Psychopharmacology, Dietary Supplements, and Biologic Interventions
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Chapter 12: Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing
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Chapter 13: Group Interventions
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Chapter 14: Family Assessment and Interventions
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Chapter 15: Mental Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents
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Chapter 16: Mental Health Promotion for Young and Middle-Aged Adults
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Chapter 17: Mental Health Promotion for Older Adults
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Chapter 18: Stress and Mental Health
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Chapter 19: Management of Anger, Aggression, and Violence
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Chapter 20: Crisis, Loss, Grief, Response, Bereavement, and Disaster Management
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Chapter 21: Suicide Prevention: Screening, Assessment, and Intervention
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Chapter 22: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: Nursing Care of Persons with Thought
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Chapter 23: Depression: Management of Depressive Moods and Suicidal Behavior Chapter 92
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24: Bipolar Disorders: Management of Mood Lability
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Chapter 25: Anxiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety, Phobia, and Panic Chapter
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26: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
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Chapter 27: Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
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Chapter 28: Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder: Management of Emotional
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Dysregulation and Self-Harm
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Chapter 29: Antisocial Personality and Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders
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Chapter 30: Addiction and Substance-Related Disorders
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Chapter 31: Eating Disorders: Management of Eating and Weight Chapter
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32: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
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Chapter 33: Nursing Care of Persons with Insomnia and Sleep Problems
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Chapter 34: Sexual Disorders: Management of Sexual Dysfunction and Paraphilias Chapter 129
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35: Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents
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Chapter 36: Mental Health Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence Chapter
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37: Mental Health Assessment of Older Adults
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Chapter 38: Neurocognitive Disorders
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Chapter 39: Caring for Persons Who Are Homeless and Mentally Ill
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Chapter 40: Caring for Persons With Co-occurring Mental Disorders
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Chapter 41: Caring for Survivors of Violence and Abuse
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Chapter 42: Caring for Persons With Mental Illness and Criminal Behavior
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Chapter 43: Caring for Medically Compromised Persons
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Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
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and Evidence-Based Practice
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1. A group of nursing students are reviewing information about the
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evolution of mental health care and are discussing the
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recommendations of the final report of the Joint Commission
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understanding of this information when they identify that the
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report recommended an increase in which of the following?
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D) Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists
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Statement on Psychiatric Nursing Practice published in 1967,
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which sanctioned the involvement of psychiatricmental health nurses in the provision of holistic
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nursing care. Integrating knowledge of the various theories and views of mental health and illness,
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the nurse identifies which of the following as most strongly linked to this holistic approach?
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B) Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing z z z z
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development of contemporary mental health and illness care. When describing the effects of World War
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A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable.
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place within nursing history. Which of the following would be most appropriate to include?
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A) Certification for the psychiatricmental health nursing specialty was first emphasized by Mary
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Adelaide Nutting.
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community mental health centers.
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C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male students and the first
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training school for psychiatric nursing. z z z z z
D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nurses was established in response to the publication of
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psychiatric nursing specialty journals.
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nursing’s overall history. Which statement is most accurate?
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A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
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B) The use of self-care to enhance the immune system was taught by Dorothea Dix.
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C) The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of deinstitutionalization.
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D) Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of therapeutic communication.
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6. When reviewing the evolution of mental health and illness care, which event is associated with mental
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disorders beginning to be viewed as illnesses requiring treatment?
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B) Quaker establishment of asylums z z z
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D) Freud’s views on the causes of mental illnesses
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the objectives for mental health and mental disorders as identified in Healthy People 2020. Which type
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of program would be least appropriate?
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A) Single substance abuse treatment programs
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B) Depression screening programs for primary care providers z z z z z z
C) Mental health programs for the homeless population
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D) Employment programs for those with serious mental illness z z z z z z z
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C) Establishment of the first graduate program in psychiatric nursing at Rutgers University z z z z z z z z z z z
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States. Which statement would the nurse include as the most reflective of this status?
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A) Mental health care in the United States is equally accessible to individuals.
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B) Mental illness ranks second in terms of causing disability in comparison.
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D) Mental health care services are inadequate and fragmented.
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Health. The students demonstrate understanding of this report when they identify which of the
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following as a goal?
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B) The consumer and family are the driving forces for mental health care.
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of the following is the most recent?
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A) Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
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B) New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
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C) Action for Mental Health z z z
D) Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act
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plans to describe how this specialty developed. Which individual would the nurse describe as playing a
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major role in the development of specialty training programs for psychiatric nurses?
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Contemporary Practice 6th Edition by
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Mary Ann Boyd – All Chapters.
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,Test Bank - Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice (6th Edition by Mary Ann Boyd)
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Table of Contents z z
Table of Contents
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Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
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Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Disorders
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Chapter 03: Cultural and Spiritual Issues Related to Mental Health Care
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Chapter 04: Patient Rights and Legal Issues
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Chapter 05: Mental Health Care in the Community
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Chapter 06: Ethics, Standards, and Nursing Frameworks
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Chapter 07: Psychosocial Theoretic Basis of Psychiatric Nursing
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Chapter 08: Biologic Foundations of Psychiatric Nursing
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Chapter 09: Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship
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Chapter 10: The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Process
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Chapter 11: Psychopharmacology, Dietary Supplements, and Biologic Interventions
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Chapter 12: Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing
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Chapter 13: Group Interventions
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Chapter 14: Family Assessment and Interventions
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Chapter 15: Mental Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents
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Chapter 16: Mental Health Promotion for Young and Middle-Aged Adults
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Chapter 17: Mental Health Promotion for Older Adults
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Chapter 18: Stress and Mental Health
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Chapter 19: Management of Anger, Aggression, and Violence
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Chapter 20: Crisis, Loss, Grief, Response, Bereavement, and Disaster Management
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Chapter 21: Suicide Prevention: Screening, Assessment, and Intervention
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Chapter 22: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: Nursing Care of Persons with Thought
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Disorders 84
Chapter 23: Depression: Management of Depressive Moods and Suicidal Behavior Chapter 92
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24: Bipolar Disorders: Management of Mood Lability
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Chapter 25: Anxiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety, Phobia, and Panic Chapter
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26: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
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Chapter 27: Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
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Chapter 28: Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder: Management of Emotional
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Dysregulation and Self-Harm
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Chapter 29: Antisocial Personality and Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders
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Chapter 30: Addiction and Substance-Related Disorders
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Chapter 31: Eating Disorders: Management of Eating and Weight Chapter
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32: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
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Chapter 33: Nursing Care of Persons with Insomnia and Sleep Problems
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Chapter 34: Sexual Disorders: Management of Sexual Dysfunction and Paraphilias Chapter 129
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35: Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents
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Chapter 36: Mental Health Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence Chapter
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37: Mental Health Assessment of Older Adults
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Chapter 38: Neurocognitive Disorders
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Chapter 39: Caring for Persons Who Are Homeless and Mentally Ill
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Chapter 40: Caring for Persons With Co-occurring Mental Disorders
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Chapter 41: Caring for Survivors of Violence and Abuse
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Chapter 42: Caring for Persons With Mental Illness and Criminal Behavior
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Chapter 43: Caring for Medically Compromised Persons
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Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
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and Evidence-Based Practice
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1. A group of nursing students are reviewing information about the
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evolution of mental health care and are discussing the
z z z z z z z z z
recommendations of the final report of the Joint Commission
z z z z z z z z z
zon Mental Illness and Health. The students demonstrate
z z z z z z z
understanding of this information when they identify that the
z z z z z z z z z
report recommended an increase in which of the following?
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A) Numbers of mental health hospitals z z z z
B) State funding for mental health carez z z z z
C) Clinics supplemented by general hospital units z z z z z
D) Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists
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2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association’s
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Statement on Psychiatric Nursing Practice published in 1967,
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which sanctioned the involvement of psychiatricmental health nurses in the provision of holistic
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nursing care. Integrating knowledge of the various theories and views of mental health and illness,
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the nurse identifies which of the following as most strongly linked to this holistic approach?
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A) Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory z z z
B) Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing z z z z
C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers’ A Mind That Found Itself z z z z z z
E) Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations in Nursing z z z z
3. A nursing instructor is preparing a presentation about key events and people that influenced the
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development of contemporary mental health and illness care. When describing the effects of World War
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II, which of the following would the instructor include?
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A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable.
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B) The biologic understanding of mental illness was almost fully developed.
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C) Deinstitutionalization occurred in response to the community health movement. z z z z z z z z
D) Mental illnesses became categorized as psychoses or neuroses.
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4. A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatricmental health nursing and its
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place within nursing history. Which of the following would be most appropriate to include?
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A) Certification for the psychiatricmental health nursing specialty was first emphasized by Mary
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Adelaide Nutting.
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B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized patients got treatment at
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community mental health centers.
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C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male students and the first
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training school for psychiatric nursing. z z z z z
D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nurses was established in response to the publication of
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psychiatric nursing specialty journals.
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5. Two nursing students are discussing psychiatricmental health nursing and the role it has played in
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nursing’s overall history. Which statement is most accurate?
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A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
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B) The use of self-care to enhance the immune system was taught by Dorothea Dix.
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C) The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of deinstitutionalization.
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D) Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of therapeutic communication.
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6. When reviewing the evolution of mental health and illness care, which event is associated with mental
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disorders beginning to be viewed as illnesses requiring treatment?
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A) Establishment of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia z z z z z z
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B) Quaker establishment of asylums z z z
C) Creation of the state hospital system z z z z z
D) Freud’s views on the causes of mental illnesses
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7. A psychiatricmental health nurse is working on a committee that is developing programs that integrate
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the objectives for mental health and mental disorders as identified in Healthy People 2020. Which type
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of program would be least appropriate?
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A) Single substance abuse treatment programs
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B) Depression screening programs for primary care providers z z z z z z
C) Mental health programs for the homeless population
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D) Employment programs for those with serious mental illness z z z z z z z
8. A nursing instructor is describing the concept of evidence-based practice in psychiatricmental health
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nursing. Which of the following would the instructor include as being important? Select all that apply.
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A) Research findings z
B) Expert opinion z
C) Clinical experiences z
D) Patient data z
E) Established routines z
9. The following events are important in the development of psychiatricmental health nursing practice.
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Which event occurred first?
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A) Publication of Standards of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing bythe ANA z z z z z z z z z
B) Publication of Standards of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Practice
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C) Establishment of the first graduate program in psychiatric nursing at Rutgers University z z z z z z z z z z z
D) Publication of the first psychiatric nursing text, Nursing Mental Disease, by Harriet Bailey
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10. A nurse is preparing a presentation about the current status of mental health services in the United
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States. Which statement would the nurse include as the most reflective of this status?
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A) Mental health care in the United States is equally accessible to individuals.
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B) Mental illness ranks second in terms of causing disability in comparison.
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C) Mental health care primarily focuses on the cure of mental illness.
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D) Mental health care services are inadequate and fragmented.
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11. A group of students are reviewing the goals identified by the New Freedom Commission on Mental
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Health. The students demonstrate understanding of this report when they identify which of the
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following as a goal?
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A) Mental health is viewed as one component of overall health.
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B) The consumer and family are the driving forces for mental health care.
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C) Screening is of greater importance than assessment and referral for services.
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D) Disparities in mental health services are decreased. z z z z z z
12. The following are important legislative and policy efforts influencing current mental health care. Which
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of the following is the most recent?
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A) Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
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B) New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
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C) Action for Mental Health z z z
D) Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act
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13. As part of a career day presentation to a group of nursing students, a psychiatricmental health nurse
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plans to describe how this specialty developed. Which individual would the nurse describe as playing a
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major role in the development of specialty training programs for psychiatric nurses?
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A) Mary Adelaide Nutting z z
B) Hildegarde Peplau z
