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Test Bank for Psychiatric Nursing Contemporary Practice
8th Edition Mary Ann Boyd Rebecca A Luebbert .
ALL CHAPTERS INCLUDED 1-43




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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 BehaviorCh 92
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Chapter 25: Anxiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety, Phobia, and PanicChapt
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Chapter 27: Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
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Chapter 28: Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder: Management of Emotion
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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 WeightChapt
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er 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 Paraphilia
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Chapter 36: Mental Health Disorders of Childhood and AdolescenceCh
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Chapter 38: Neurocognitive Disorders
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Chapter 39: Caring for Persons Who Are Homeless and Mentally Ill C
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hapter 40: Caring for Persons With Co-
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occurring Mental Disorders Chapter 41: Caring for Survivors of Viole
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nce 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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endations of the final report of the Joint Commission on
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Mental Illness and Health. The students demonstrate understandi
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ng of this information when they identify that the reportrecomm
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ended an increase in which of the following?
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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 n
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ursing care. Integrating knowledge of the various theories and views of mentalhealth and illness, t
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he nurse identifies which of the following as most strongly linked to this holistic approach?
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ment of contemporary mental health and illness care. When describing the effects of World WarII, w
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hich 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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4. A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatricmental health nursing and
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A) Certification for the psychiatricmental health nursing specialty was first emphasized by M
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D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nurses was established in response to the publication
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of psychiatric nursing specialty journals.
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5. Two nursing students are discussing psychiatricmental health nursing and the role it has played
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in 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 me
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the objectives for mental health and mental disorders as identified in Healthy People 2020. Which
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9. The following events are important in the development of psychiatricmental health nursing practi
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A) Publication of Standards of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing by the ANA
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12. The following are important legislative and policy efforts influencing current mental health care. Wh
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ich of the following is the most recent?
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D) Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act
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amajor role in the development of specialty training programs for psychiatric nurses?
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