1. Historical Perspectives
2. Theories of Personality Development
3. Methods of Therapy
4. Biological Implications
5. Stress and Anxiety
6. Schizophrenia
7. Mood Disorders and Suicide
8. Personality Development, Personality Disorders, and Impulse Control Disorders
9. Cognitive Disorders
10.Substance-Related Disorders
11.Eating Disorders
12.Abuse and Violence
13.Mental Health and the Law
14.Psychiatric Nursing Interventions
15.Psychotropic Medications
16.The Nursing Process Applied to Psychiatric Nursing
17.Special Populations: Children and Adolescents
18.Special Populations: Older Adults
,TEST BANK FOR MENTAL HEALTH NURSING 6TH EDITION BY GORMAN (ANSWER KEY
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Chapter 1. History of Mental Health Nursing
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. The act of developing a clean environment is a factor in providing effective health care as
demonstrated by:
1. Nightingale.
2. Benner.
3. Swanson.
4. King.
2. What is the name of the publication written by Florence Nightingale?
1. Nursing Sanitation Notes
2. Nursing 101
3. Notes on Nursing
4. Nursing Notes
3. A long-term goal for inpatient mental health treatment is generally to:
1. Return the patient to the community.
2. Locate a facility for long-term care.
3. Be arrested and placed in prison.
4. Be completely cured of the disorder.
4. The mentally ill were once housed in mental institutions known as:
1. Hospitals.
2. Long-term care facilities.
3. Asylums.
4. Free-standing treatment centers.
5. Which nursing theorists promoted the interpersonal theory between the nurse and the patient?
1. Hildegard Peplau
2. Hattie Bessent
3. Mary Mahoney
4. Linda Richards
Completion
Complete each statement.
6. The first psychiatric program of study was established by which nursing leader?
7. Which nurse theorist was the first American-trained nurse credited with teaching how to provide
care for people with mental illness?
, 8. The greatest advance in the early years of mental health care was the introduction of
.
9. The legislation that provided funding for improving the care of the mentally ill is known as the
National Mental Health Act of what year? .
10. One of the goals of the American Nurses association (ANA) is to promote of
nursing care in the United States.
11. has always been called the “founder of nursing.”
12. A schoolteacher by the name of helped established asylums and
psychiatric hospitals for the mentally ill.
13. The first psychotropic drug category was known as .
14. The first major federal law to address mental illness was called the - Act.
Multiple Response
Identify one or more choices that best complete the statement or answer the question.
15. What trends contributed to the deinstitutionalization of mental health facilities to outpatient care
(select all that apply)?
1. Cost of the facilities
2. The increased use of phenothiazines
3. Staff cost
4. Establishment of outpatient clinics
5. Development of the Patient Bill of Rights