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Comprehensive psychiatric nursing test bank covering Chapters 1–28 of Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice, 8th Edition by Mary Ann Boyd and Rebecca Luebbert.

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BoydAnnand BR




Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health
Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice

1. When applying the biopsychosocial model to client care, the nurse integrates the
psychological domain when involved with which of the following?

A. Behavior therapy

B. Family support

C. Nutritional therapy

D. Sleep hygiene measures

Answer:

A. Behavior therapy

Explanation - The psychological domain focuses on mental processes and
behaviors, making behavior therapy a direct application. Family support relates more
to social aspects, nutritional therapy to biological, and sleep hygiene, while
important, is more biologic or behavioral but not specifically psychological therapy.

2. What is identified as a major challenge associated with technology and electronic
health records in psychiatric-mental health care?
A. Maintaining confidentiality

B. Establishing educational models

C. Decreasing fragmented care

D. Defining professional standards more clearly

Answer:

A. Maintaining confidentiality

Explanation - Technology and electronic health records pose significant challenges
to maintaining patient confidentiality. While educational models, fragmented care,
and professional standards are important, confidentiality is a primary concern with
electronic data.




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Practice, 8thPractice,
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Mary Ann by Mary
BoydAnnand BR




3. The ethical principle most closely reflected by a student's opinion advocating
equitable access to mental health care for underserved populations is:

A. Nonmaleficence

B. Paternalism

C. Veracity

D. Justice

Answer:

D. Justice

Explanation - Justice refers to fairness and equitable distribution of resources.
Nonmaleficence is about avoiding harm, paternalism involves overriding autonomy
for benefit, and veracity concerns truthfulness.



4. A nursing student who chooses to keep a promise to meet with a patient instead
of going to the gym with classmates demonstrates which ethical principle?
A. Autonomy

B. Beneficence

C. Fidelity

D. Veracity

Answer:

C. Fidelity

Explanation - Fidelity is faithfulness to commitments and promises. Autonomy
relates to self-determination, beneficence to doing good, and veracity to truth-telling.



5. When students analyze and evaluate nursing interventions during a postclinical
conference, they are engaging in:

A. Therapeutic use of self

B. Critical thinking

C. Interdisciplinary care




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Nursing_ Contemporary
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Practice, 8thPractice,
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Mary Ann by Mary
BoydAnnand BR

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Nursing_ Contemporary
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Practice, 8thPractice,
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BoydAnnand BR




D. Planning care

Answer:

B. Critical thinking

Explanation - Critical thinking involves analyzing and evaluating information to make
decisions. Therapeutic use of self relates to nurse-patient interaction,
interdisciplinary care involves multiple disciplines, and planning care is a specific
step in nursing but less broad than critical thinking.




6. Which of the following is an advanced practice level function of psychiatric
nurses?

A. Milieu therapy

B. Promotion of self-care

C. Psychopharmacology interventions

D. Health promotion activities

Answer:

C. Psychopharmacology interventions

Explanation - Psychopharmacology interventions require advanced knowledge and
licensure. Milieu therapy, self-care promotion, and health promotion are basic
nursing functions.




7. Accordingto the final report of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness
and Health, what was recommended to improve mental health care?
A. Increase the number of mental health hospitals

B. Increase state funding for mental health care

C. Develop clinics supplemented by general hospital units

D. Increase the use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists




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test bank test
for Psychiatric
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Nursing_ Contemporary
Nursing_ Contemporary
Practice, 8thPractice,
Edition8thbyEdition
Mary Ann by Mary
BoydAnnand BR

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test bank test
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Nursing_ Contemporary
Nursing_ Contemporary
Practice, 8thPractice,
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Mary Ann by Mary
BoydAnnand BR




8. Whichtheory or approach is most strongly linked to the holistic nursing
care approach sanctioned by the American Nurses Association's 1967
Statement on Psychiatric Nursing Practice?
A. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory

B. Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing

C. Hildegarde Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations in Nursing

D. Clifford Beers’ A Mind That Found Itself




9. What was a significant effect of World War II on the perception of
mental illness?
A. Mental illness became viewed 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




10. Whichstatement best describes the historical link in psychiatric-
mental health nursing education?
A. Certification for psychiatric-mental health nursing was first emphasized by Mary
Adelaide Nutting

B. Psychiatric nurses ensured treatment for deinstitutionalized patients at community
centers

C. The first nursing program to admit male students is historically linked to the first
psychiatric nursing training school

D. The first graduate psychiatric nursing program was established due to psychiatric
nursing journals




11. Which
nurse was the first to emphasize the importance of therapeutic
communication in psychiatric nursing?




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Nursing_ Contemporary
Nursing_ Contemporary
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Mary Ann by Mary
BoydAnnand BR

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