1. A group of nurses are reviewing information about the evolution of mental health
care and are discussing the recommendations of the final report of the Joint
Commission on Mental Illness and Health. The nurses demonstrate
understanding of this information when they identify that the report
recommended an increase in the:
A) number of mental health hospitals.
B) institutionalization of clients with mental health problems.
C) number of clinics supplemented by general hospital units.
D) use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists.
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 as most strongly linked to this holistic
approach?
A) Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
C) Lavinia Lloyd Dock's Materia Medica for Nurses
D) Clifford Beers' A Mind That Found Itself
E) Hildegard Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
3. A psychiatric-mental health nurse 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 would the nurse
most likely 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.
4. A nurse is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatric–mental health
nursing and its place within nursing history. Which 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 clients 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.
D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nursing was established in response to the
publication of psychiatric nursing specialty journals.
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, 5. When reviewing the evolution of mental health and illness care, which event is
associated with mental disorders beginning to be viewed as illnesses requiring
treatment?
A) Establishment of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia
B) Quaker establishment of asylums
C) Creation of the state hospital system
D) Freud's views on the causes of mental illnesses
6. A psychiatric–mental health nurse is working on a committee that is developing
programs that integrate the objectives for mental health and mental disorders, as
identified in Healthy People 2020. Which type of program would be least
appropriate?
A) Single substance abuse treatment programs
B) Depression-screening programs for primary care providers
C) Mental health programs for the homeless population
D) Employment programs for those with serious mental illness
7. A nurse is describing the concept of evidence-based practice in psychiatric–
mental health nursing to a group of colleagues. Which information would the
nurse include as being important? (Select all that apply.)
A) research findings
B) expert opinion
C) clinical experiences
D) client data
E) established routines
8. The following events are important in the development of psychiatric–mental
health nursing practice. Which event occurred first?
A) Publication of Standards of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing by the ANA
B) Publication of Standards of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric and Mental Health
Nursing Practice
C) Establishment of the first graduate program in psychiatric nursing at Rutgers
University
D) Publication of the first psychiatric nursing text, Nursing Mental Disease, by Harriet
Bailey
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care and are discussing the recommendations of the final report of the Joint
Commission on Mental Illness and Health. The nurses demonstrate
understanding of this information when they identify that the report
recommended an increase in the:
A) number of mental health hospitals.
B) institutionalization of clients with mental health problems.
C) number of clinics supplemented by general hospital units.
D) use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists.
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 as most strongly linked to this holistic
approach?
A) Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
C) Lavinia Lloyd Dock's Materia Medica for Nurses
D) Clifford Beers' A Mind That Found Itself
E) Hildegard Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
3. A psychiatric-mental health nurse 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 would the nurse
most likely 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.
4. A nurse is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatric–mental health
nursing and its place within nursing history. Which 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 clients 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.
D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nursing was established in response to the
publication of psychiatric nursing specialty journals.
Page 1
, 5. When reviewing the evolution of mental health and illness care, which event is
associated with mental disorders beginning to be viewed as illnesses requiring
treatment?
A) Establishment of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia
B) Quaker establishment of asylums
C) Creation of the state hospital system
D) Freud's views on the causes of mental illnesses
6. A psychiatric–mental health nurse is working on a committee that is developing
programs that integrate the objectives for mental health and mental disorders, as
identified in Healthy People 2020. Which type of program would be least
appropriate?
A) Single substance abuse treatment programs
B) Depression-screening programs for primary care providers
C) Mental health programs for the homeless population
D) Employment programs for those with serious mental illness
7. A nurse is describing the concept of evidence-based practice in psychiatric–
mental health nursing to a group of colleagues. Which information would the
nurse include as being important? (Select all that apply.)
A) research findings
B) expert opinion
C) clinical experiences
D) client data
E) established routines
8. The following events are important in the development of psychiatric–mental
health nursing practice. Which event occurred first?
A) Publication of Standards of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing by the ANA
B) Publication of Standards of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric and Mental Health
Nursing Practice
C) Establishment of the first graduate program in psychiatric nursing at Rutgers
University
D) Publication of the first psychiatric nursing text, Nursing Mental Disease, by Harriet
Bailey
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