Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing:
Scope and Standards of Practice
2014 Edition with well verified
answers actual exam!!!
Psychiatric-mental health nursing - ANSWER -Nursing practice specialty committed to
promoting mental health through the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of behavioral
problems, mental disorders, and comorbid conditions across the lifespan.
Psychiatric-mental health nursing interventions - ANSWER -Both an art and science.
Employs a purposeful use of self and a wide range of nursing, psychosocial, and
neurobiological evidence to produce effective outcomes.
Laura Fitzsimmons - ANSWER -Psychiatric nurse consultant to American Psychiatric
Association during WWII era. Evaluated educational programs for psychiatric nurses and
recommended standards for training. Recommendations received federal funding to
strengthen education and standards of care for psychiatric nursing.
National Mental Health Act (NMHA) of 1946 - ANSWER -Psychiatric nursing became core
mental health discipline named in NMHA along with psychiatry, psychology, and social work.
This act greatly increased funding for psychiatric nursing education and training. Led to growth
in university-level education.
Hildegrad Peplau - ANSWER -Established first graduate psychiatric nursing program at
Rutgers University in 1954. Her publication "Interpersonal Relations in Nursing" emphasized
the importance of the therapeutic relationship in helping individuals to make positive behavior
changes and articulated the predominant PMH nursing approach of the period.
Purpose of Scope of Practice - ANSWER -To define the boundaries of the nursing
profession and inform society about the parameters of nursing practice. Also to guide the
, development of state level nurse practice acts and the rules and regulations governing nursing
practice.
McLean nurse training school - ANSWER -Established by Dr. Edward Cowles at mcLean
Asylum in Massachusetts in 1882 to change focus of mental asylums from restrictive and
custodial care to medical and social treatment for the mentally ill. Beginning of PMH nursing.
The use of trained nurses, rather than "keepers", was central to Cowles' effort to replace
public perception of "insanity" as deviance or infirmity with a belief that mental disorders
could be ameliorated or cured with proper treatment. First opportunity for men to become
trained nurses.
First nurse-organized training course for psychiatric nursing within a general nursing education
program - ANSWER -Established by Effie Jane Taylor of Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1913.
Served as prototype for other nursing education programs. Taylor's colleague Harriet Daily
published the first psychiatric nursing textbook "Nursing Mental Disease" in 1920.
What did nursing leadership provide for psychiatric nursing? - ANSWER -Biopsychosocial
approach with specific nursing methods for individuals with mental disorders. The PMH nurse
also began to identify the didactic and clinical components of training needed to care for
persons with mental disorders.
Psychiatric nursing advances in post WWI era - ANSWER -"Nursing in nervous and
mental diseases" was added to curriculum guides developed by the National League for
Nursing Education and was eventually required in all educational programs for RNs
Mental health reform and expansion in psychiatric nursing during WWII - ANSWER -
Public health significance of mental disorders became apparent when significant amount of
military recruits deemed unfit due to psychiatric disability. Increased sympathy and support for
combat veterans returning with combat-related neuropsychiatric casualties.
Post WWII - ANSWER -Growing professionalization in psychiatric nursing. NMHA funding
led to rapid expansion of graduate programs and the start of PMHN research.
1963 - ANSWER -First journals focusing on psychiatric-mental health nursing were
published.
1973 - ANSWER -The ANA first published the Standards of Psychiatric Mental Health
Nursing Practice and began certifying generalists in PMH nursing.
Scope and Standards of Practice
2014 Edition with well verified
answers actual exam!!!
Psychiatric-mental health nursing - ANSWER -Nursing practice specialty committed to
promoting mental health through the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of behavioral
problems, mental disorders, and comorbid conditions across the lifespan.
Psychiatric-mental health nursing interventions - ANSWER -Both an art and science.
Employs a purposeful use of self and a wide range of nursing, psychosocial, and
neurobiological evidence to produce effective outcomes.
Laura Fitzsimmons - ANSWER -Psychiatric nurse consultant to American Psychiatric
Association during WWII era. Evaluated educational programs for psychiatric nurses and
recommended standards for training. Recommendations received federal funding to
strengthen education and standards of care for psychiatric nursing.
National Mental Health Act (NMHA) of 1946 - ANSWER -Psychiatric nursing became core
mental health discipline named in NMHA along with psychiatry, psychology, and social work.
This act greatly increased funding for psychiatric nursing education and training. Led to growth
in university-level education.
Hildegrad Peplau - ANSWER -Established first graduate psychiatric nursing program at
Rutgers University in 1954. Her publication "Interpersonal Relations in Nursing" emphasized
the importance of the therapeutic relationship in helping individuals to make positive behavior
changes and articulated the predominant PMH nursing approach of the period.
Purpose of Scope of Practice - ANSWER -To define the boundaries of the nursing
profession and inform society about the parameters of nursing practice. Also to guide the
, development of state level nurse practice acts and the rules and regulations governing nursing
practice.
McLean nurse training school - ANSWER -Established by Dr. Edward Cowles at mcLean
Asylum in Massachusetts in 1882 to change focus of mental asylums from restrictive and
custodial care to medical and social treatment for the mentally ill. Beginning of PMH nursing.
The use of trained nurses, rather than "keepers", was central to Cowles' effort to replace
public perception of "insanity" as deviance or infirmity with a belief that mental disorders
could be ameliorated or cured with proper treatment. First opportunity for men to become
trained nurses.
First nurse-organized training course for psychiatric nursing within a general nursing education
program - ANSWER -Established by Effie Jane Taylor of Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1913.
Served as prototype for other nursing education programs. Taylor's colleague Harriet Daily
published the first psychiatric nursing textbook "Nursing Mental Disease" in 1920.
What did nursing leadership provide for psychiatric nursing? - ANSWER -Biopsychosocial
approach with specific nursing methods for individuals with mental disorders. The PMH nurse
also began to identify the didactic and clinical components of training needed to care for
persons with mental disorders.
Psychiatric nursing advances in post WWI era - ANSWER -"Nursing in nervous and
mental diseases" was added to curriculum guides developed by the National League for
Nursing Education and was eventually required in all educational programs for RNs
Mental health reform and expansion in psychiatric nursing during WWII - ANSWER -
Public health significance of mental disorders became apparent when significant amount of
military recruits deemed unfit due to psychiatric disability. Increased sympathy and support for
combat veterans returning with combat-related neuropsychiatric casualties.
Post WWII - ANSWER -Growing professionalization in psychiatric nursing. NMHA funding
led to rapid expansion of graduate programs and the start of PMHN research.
1963 - ANSWER -First journals focusing on psychiatric-mental health nursing were
published.
1973 - ANSWER -The ANA first published the Standards of Psychiatric Mental Health
Nursing Practice and began certifying generalists in PMH nursing.
