PSYCHIATRIC NURSING EXAM 1
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS
◉ Asylum. Answer: Safe haven previously considered as the best option
for psych treatment
◉ Florence Nightengale. Answer: Early founder of psych nursing who is
credited with introducing the holistic view and using therapeutic
communication
◉ Linda Richards. Answer: First trained nurse in the US, opened Boston
City Hospital Training School for Nurses at McLean Hospital, a mental
health facility
◉ Effie Taylor. Answer: Affiliated with Johns Hopkins, encouraged
nurses to avoid the dichotomy of mind and body.
◉ Harriet Bailey. Answer: Wrote the first psych nursing textbook,
Nursing Mental Disease.
◉ Hildegard Peplau. Answer: Wrote Interpersonal Relations in Nursing,
which introduced the psych mental health nursing practice to the
concepts of interpersonal relations and the therapeutic relationship
,◉ Statement on Psychiatric Nursing Practice. Answer: First official
sanction of a holistic approach of psych mental health nurses practicing
in a variety of settings with a diverse clientele, emphasizing health
promotion as well as health restoration
◉ 800 BC- Colonial period. Answer: Pre-moral treatment era
◉ Moral treatment. Answer: Use of kindness, compassion, pleasant
environment to treat psych disorders
◉ Institutionalization. Answer: Forced confinement of individuals for
long periods of time in large facilities
◉ Psychosis. Answer: Severe mental illness
◉ Neurosis. Answer: A less severe mental illness
◉ Psychoanalysis. Answer: Therapy focused on repairing the trauma of
the original psychological injury
◉ Deinstitutionalization. Answer: Release of those confined to mental
institutions for long periods of time into the community for treatment,
support and rehabilitation
◉ Evidence-based practice. Answer: Problem-solving approach to the
delivery of healthcare that integrates the best evidence from well
, designed studies and patient care data & combines it with patient
preferences and values along with nurse expertise
◉ Mental health. Answer: The emotional and psychological well-being
of an individual who has the capacity to interact with others, deal with
ordinary stress, and perceive one's surroundings realistically
◉ Mental disorders. Answer: Clinically significant disturbances in
cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflect a dysfunction in
the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying
mental dysfunction
◉ Epidemiology. Answer: The study of patterns of disease distribution
and determinants of health within populations
◉ Rate of occurence. Answer: The proportion of the population that has
a given disorder
◉ Incidence. Answer: Rate of new cases of a given disorder within a
specified time
◉ Prevalence. Answer: The rate of occurrence of all cases at a particular
point in time
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS
◉ Asylum. Answer: Safe haven previously considered as the best option
for psych treatment
◉ Florence Nightengale. Answer: Early founder of psych nursing who is
credited with introducing the holistic view and using therapeutic
communication
◉ Linda Richards. Answer: First trained nurse in the US, opened Boston
City Hospital Training School for Nurses at McLean Hospital, a mental
health facility
◉ Effie Taylor. Answer: Affiliated with Johns Hopkins, encouraged
nurses to avoid the dichotomy of mind and body.
◉ Harriet Bailey. Answer: Wrote the first psych nursing textbook,
Nursing Mental Disease.
◉ Hildegard Peplau. Answer: Wrote Interpersonal Relations in Nursing,
which introduced the psych mental health nursing practice to the
concepts of interpersonal relations and the therapeutic relationship
,◉ Statement on Psychiatric Nursing Practice. Answer: First official
sanction of a holistic approach of psych mental health nurses practicing
in a variety of settings with a diverse clientele, emphasizing health
promotion as well as health restoration
◉ 800 BC- Colonial period. Answer: Pre-moral treatment era
◉ Moral treatment. Answer: Use of kindness, compassion, pleasant
environment to treat psych disorders
◉ Institutionalization. Answer: Forced confinement of individuals for
long periods of time in large facilities
◉ Psychosis. Answer: Severe mental illness
◉ Neurosis. Answer: A less severe mental illness
◉ Psychoanalysis. Answer: Therapy focused on repairing the trauma of
the original psychological injury
◉ Deinstitutionalization. Answer: Release of those confined to mental
institutions for long periods of time into the community for treatment,
support and rehabilitation
◉ Evidence-based practice. Answer: Problem-solving approach to the
delivery of healthcare that integrates the best evidence from well
, designed studies and patient care data & combines it with patient
preferences and values along with nurse expertise
◉ Mental health. Answer: The emotional and psychological well-being
of an individual who has the capacity to interact with others, deal with
ordinary stress, and perceive one's surroundings realistically
◉ Mental disorders. Answer: Clinically significant disturbances in
cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflect a dysfunction in
the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying
mental dysfunction
◉ Epidemiology. Answer: The study of patterns of disease distribution
and determinants of health within populations
◉ Rate of occurence. Answer: The proportion of the population that has
a given disorder
◉ Incidence. Answer: Rate of new cases of a given disorder within a
specified time
◉ Prevalence. Answer: The rate of occurrence of all cases at a particular
point in time
