INTRODUCTORY MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
4TH EDITION FINAL EXAM SCRIPT 2026
SOLVED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ When was the Insular Psychopathic Hospital established?
Answer: December 17, 1928
◉ What was the capacity of the Insular Psychopathic Hospital?
Answer: 400 beds
◉ What happened to the City Sanitarium in 1935?
Answer: It was closed, and all its patients were transferred to the
National Psychopathic Hospital.
◉ What legislation did President Marcos sign on June 11, 1978?
Answer: PD 1541, providing for the establishment of Regional
Hospitals for psychiatry.
◉ What is the current name of the Insular Psychopathic Hospital?
Answer: National Center for Mental Health (NCMH)
,◉ When was NCMH categorized as a special research training
center?
Answer: January 30, 1987
◉ What is the role of a psychiatric nurse?
Answer: To help emotionally troubled patients and administer
prescribed drugs.
◉ What degree is required for a psychiatric nurse generalist?
Answer: A baccalaureate degree in nursing.
◉ What is one specific role of a psychiatric nurse generalist?
Answer: Educates the client about their illness and medications.
◉ What is the role of a psychiatric nurse specialist?
Answer: Requires a master's degree and provides primary care
including both medical and mental health services.
◉ What are the essential qualities of a nurse?
Answer: Accountability, client focus, clinical competence, and
supervision.
◉ How can mental health and mental illness be viewed?
, Answer: As end points on a continuum, with movement back and
forth throughout life.
◉ What are the characteristics of optimum wellness?
Answer: Self-esteem, satisfying relationships, environmental
mastery, and stress management.
◉ What are populations at risk for mental health issues?
Answer: Those with familial predisposition, poor access to
healthcare, homelessness, and substance abuse.
◉ What are characteristics of mentally healthy individuals?
Answer: Authentic, accepting, realistic, satisfied, independent, and
unified.
◉ What criteria indicate mental illness?
Answer: Dissatisfaction with self, ineffective relationships, and poor
coping mechanisms.
◉ What is primary prevention in mental health?
Answer: Measures to counteract harmful circumstances and
promote health.
4TH EDITION FINAL EXAM SCRIPT 2026
SOLVED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ When was the Insular Psychopathic Hospital established?
Answer: December 17, 1928
◉ What was the capacity of the Insular Psychopathic Hospital?
Answer: 400 beds
◉ What happened to the City Sanitarium in 1935?
Answer: It was closed, and all its patients were transferred to the
National Psychopathic Hospital.
◉ What legislation did President Marcos sign on June 11, 1978?
Answer: PD 1541, providing for the establishment of Regional
Hospitals for psychiatry.
◉ What is the current name of the Insular Psychopathic Hospital?
Answer: National Center for Mental Health (NCMH)
,◉ When was NCMH categorized as a special research training
center?
Answer: January 30, 1987
◉ What is the role of a psychiatric nurse?
Answer: To help emotionally troubled patients and administer
prescribed drugs.
◉ What degree is required for a psychiatric nurse generalist?
Answer: A baccalaureate degree in nursing.
◉ What is one specific role of a psychiatric nurse generalist?
Answer: Educates the client about their illness and medications.
◉ What is the role of a psychiatric nurse specialist?
Answer: Requires a master's degree and provides primary care
including both medical and mental health services.
◉ What are the essential qualities of a nurse?
Answer: Accountability, client focus, clinical competence, and
supervision.
◉ How can mental health and mental illness be viewed?
, Answer: As end points on a continuum, with movement back and
forth throughout life.
◉ What are the characteristics of optimum wellness?
Answer: Self-esteem, satisfying relationships, environmental
mastery, and stress management.
◉ What are populations at risk for mental health issues?
Answer: Those with familial predisposition, poor access to
healthcare, homelessness, and substance abuse.
◉ What are characteristics of mentally healthy individuals?
Answer: Authentic, accepting, realistic, satisfied, independent, and
unified.
◉ What criteria indicate mental illness?
Answer: Dissatisfaction with self, ineffective relationships, and poor
coping mechanisms.
◉ What is primary prevention in mental health?
Answer: Measures to counteract harmful circumstances and
promote health.
