PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
VIDEBECK TEST BANK 2026 EXAM SCRIPT
WITH FULL SOLVED QUESTIONS
⩥2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association's Statement
on Psychiatric Nursing Practice
published in 1967, which sanctioned the involvement of psychiatric
mental 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 Freud's psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers' A Mind That Found Itself
E) Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing Answer: B) Florence
Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
⩥3. A nursing instructor is preparing a presentation about key events and
people that influenced the
development of contemporary mental health and illness care. When
describing the effects of World War
, II, which of the following would the instructor include?
A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and
acceptable.
B) The biologic understanding of mental illness was almost fully
developed.
C) Deinstitutionalization occurred in response to the community health
movement.
D) Mental illnesses became categorized as psychoses or neuroses.
Answer: A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace
and acceptable.
⩥4. A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of
psychiatric mental health nursing and its
place within nursing history. Which of the following would be most
appropriate to include?
A) Certification for the psychiatric mental health nursing specialty was
first emphasized by Mary
Adelaide Nutting.
B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized
patients got treatment at
community mental health centers.
C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit
male students and the first
training school for psychiatric nursing.
VIDEBECK TEST BANK 2026 EXAM SCRIPT
WITH FULL SOLVED QUESTIONS
⩥2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association's Statement
on Psychiatric Nursing Practice
published in 1967, which sanctioned the involvement of psychiatric
mental 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 Freud's psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers' A Mind That Found Itself
E) Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing Answer: B) Florence
Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
⩥3. A nursing instructor is preparing a presentation about key events and
people that influenced the
development of contemporary mental health and illness care. When
describing the effects of World War
, II, which of the following would the instructor include?
A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and
acceptable.
B) The biologic understanding of mental illness was almost fully
developed.
C) Deinstitutionalization occurred in response to the community health
movement.
D) Mental illnesses became categorized as psychoses or neuroses.
Answer: A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace
and acceptable.
⩥4. A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of
psychiatric mental health nursing and its
place within nursing history. Which of the following would be most
appropriate to include?
A) Certification for the psychiatric mental health nursing specialty was
first emphasized by Mary
Adelaide Nutting.
B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized
patients got treatment at
community mental health centers.
C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit
male students and the first
training school for psychiatric nursing.
