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FINAL EXAMINATION PAPER dd dd




NRNP 6610 PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NP EXAM ANSWERS
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STUDENT NAME: ________________________________
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COURSE: MENTAL HEALTH NURSING EXAM 1: Unit 1 &
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2 (COMPLETE + INCLUDES AND RATIONALES)
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EXAM CODE: NRNP 6610 PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALT
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H NP EXAM ANSWERS-101
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EXAM INSTRUCTIONS:
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1. Print your full name and date clearly in the header above.
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2. This exam booklet contains both Test Questions (Part I) and Verified Solutions (Part II).
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3. Answer all multiple-choice questions clearly. Double-check your work.
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4. Do not break the seal or open this booklet until instructed to do so by the proctor.
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Q1. The health and illness continuum
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[Verified Solution]: - measures a persons health on a graduated scale
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Q2. What factors influence mental health?
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[Verified Solution]: - inherited characteristics - childhood nurturing - life circumstances
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Q3. Mental illness (disorder)
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[Verified Solution]: disturbance in one's ability to cope effectively
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Q4. How was mental health viewed in primitive societies?
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mental illness was believed to be caused by wrath of evil spirits and demonic possession -
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treatments were geared towards removal of evil spirits -
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mentally ill people were allowed to remain in society as long as their behaviors were not violent; viole
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nt members were banished
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Q5. The first English institution for the mentally ill founded by the Sheriff of London.
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[Verified Solution]: 1247 dd dddd

,Q6. Bethlehem Royal Hospital (or Bedlam) was a lunatic asylum.
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[Verified Solution]: 1330 dd dddd




Q7. Violently ill patients were chained to walls in small cells and often provided "entertainme
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nt" for the public before the renaissance began in Italy when?
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[Verified Solution]: 1400 dd dddd




Q8. Protestant Reformation
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[Verified Solution]: 1517 dd dddd




Q9. Behaviors were accurately recorded for personalities associated with melancholia, mania,
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and psychopathology
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[Verified Solution]: Mid 1500s dd dddd dd




Q10. Eighteenth Century (1700s)
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[Verified Solution]: - Psychiatry developed as a separate branch of medicine. -
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Inhumane treatment and vicious practices were openly questioned. -
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In 1792, Philippe Pinel liberated patients from their chains and advocated acceptance of the mentally ill
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as human beings. - In America, the Philadelphia Almshouse was erected in 1731. -
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The care and treatment of people with mental illness remained harsh in the United States as it was in E
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urope. - dd



Care for the mentally ill did not begin to improve until the arrival in 1884 of Alice Fisher, a Florence
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Nightingale-trained nurse. dd




Q11. Nineteenth Century (1800s)
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Dr. Benjamin Rush became a crusader for the insane. His book titled Diseases of the Mind was the firs
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t psychiatric text written in the United States. -
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"Once insane, always insane" was no longer the rule as people were being helped. -
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Dorothea Dix surveyed asylums, jails, and almshouses. Because of her voice, care of the mentally ill gr
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eatly improved. - By the late 1800s, a two-
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class system of psychiatric care had emerged: "private care" for the wealthy and "publicly provided care
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" for the remainder of society.
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,Q12. Twentieth Century (1900s)
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Clifford Beers wrote A Mind That Found Itself. The social consciousness of a nation had finally been
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The Committee for Mental Hygiene was formed in 1909; focused on removing the stigma of mental ill
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ness.




Q13. psychoanalysis
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[Verified Solution]: - the first comprehensive theory of mental illness based on observation -
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based on the theme of repressed sexual energy -
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developed in the 1900s by neurophysicist Sigmund Freud
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Q14. recidivism
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[Verified Solution]: repeated hospitalization, the patients keep coming back and going home.
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Q15. Sigmund Freud
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[Verified Solution]: - neurophysiologist who developed psychoanalysis in the early 1900s -
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Freud believed that forces within and outside the personality caused mental illness.
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Q16. lithium carbonate
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[Verified Solution]: - discovered by John Cade -
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used to control mood swings in bipolar manic depressive illness
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Q17. Chlorpromazine (Thorazine)
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[Verified Solution]: - introduced in 1956 -
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useful for controlling many behaviors observed in schizophrenia and other psychoses
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Q18. deinstitutionalization
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the practice, begun in the 1960s, of releasing hundreds of thousands of patients from public mental hos
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pitals by the federal government -
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It was believed that people with mental disorders could live within their communities and work with th
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eir therapists on an outpatient basis.
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, Q19. The community mental health centers act (1963)
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congress passed amendments to the community mental health centers act in 1975 -
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revolutionized U.S. mental health care by initiating the shift from institutionalization to community-
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based care. It funded the construction of comprehensive centers to treat patients locally, aiming to reduc
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e state hospital populations
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Q20. The medicare/medicaid bill of 1965
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[Verified Solution]: combined with the Community Mental Health Centers Act, led to the release of m
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ore than 75% of institutionalized mentally ill persons into the community
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Q21. President's Commission on Mental Health (1978)
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[Verified Solution]: provided funding for community centers based on guidelines.
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Q22. Mental Health Systems Act (1980)
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[Verified Solution]: Requires each state to review and revise if necessary it's laws to ensure that ment
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al health patients receive these human rights protections and services that they require.
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Q23. Phillipe Pinel's contribution to the history of mental health care is BEST described as:
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A. Developing the first antipsychotic medication
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B. Removing chains from psychiatric patients and promoting humane treatment
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C. Establishing the first community mental health center in France
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D. Writing the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
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[Verified Solution]: B. Removing chains from psychiatric patients and promoting humane treatment ra
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tionale: Philippe Pinel (late 1700s, France) is a landmark figure in psychiatric history who literally remo
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ved chains from institutionalized patients at Bicêtre Hospital and championed moral treatment —
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the idea that humane, respectful care could aid recovery (Morrison-Valfre Ch. 4).
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Q24. According to The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals, which action is RE
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QUIRED for all patients admitted to a psychiatric setting?
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A. Administration of a standardized intelligence test
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B. Screening for suicide risk using a validated assessment tool
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C. Mandatory family therapy sessions within 24 hours of admission
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D. Urine drug screen for all patients regardless of history
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[Verified Solution]: B. Screening for suicide risk using a validated assessment tool rationale: The Joint
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Commission's NPSG 15.01.01 requires that all patients in psychiatric settings be screened for suicide ri
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sk using a validated tool. This is a mandatory, standardized safety requirement across accredited facilitie
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s (National Patient Safety Goals, 2023 / Morrison-Valfre Ch. 11).
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