UNIT 1 MENTAL HEALTH EXAM STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE
QUESTIONS 2026/2027
1. Nightingale - Correct answer ✔✔ The act of developing a clean environment is a factor in
providing effective health care as demonstrated by:
1. Nightingale.
2. Benner.
3. Swanson.
4. King.
3. notes on nursing - Correct answer ✔✔ What is the name of the publication written by
Florence Nightingale?
1. Nursing Sanitation Notes
2. Nursing 101
3. Notes on Nursing
4. Nursing Notes
1. return the patient to the community - Correct answer ✔✔ A long-term goal for inpatient
mental health treatment is generally to:
1. Return the patient to the community.
2. Locate a facility for long-term care.
3. Be arrested and placed in prison.
4. Be completely cured of the disorder.
3. asylums - Correct answer ✔✔ The mentally ill were once housed in mental institutions known
as:
1. Hospitals.
,2. Long-term care facilities.
3. Asylums.
4. Free-standing treatment centers.
1. Hildegard Peplau - Correct answer ✔✔ Which nursing theorists promoted the interpersonal
theory between the nurse and the patient?
1. Hildegard Peplau
2. Hattie Bessent
3. Mary Mahoney
4. Linda Richards
Jane Taylor - Correct answer ✔✔ The first psychiatric program of study was established by
which nursing leader? ______ _______ _________
Linda Richards - Correct answer ✔✔ Which nurse theorist was the first American-trained nurse
credited with teaching how to provide care for people with mental illness? ___________
____________
phenothiazines - Correct answer ✔✔ The greatest advance in the early years of mental health
care was the introduction of ___________________.
1946 - Correct answer ✔✔ The legislation that provided funding for improving the care of the
mentally ill is known as the National Mental Health Act of what year? ______.
standardization - Correct answer ✔✔ One of the goals of the American Nurses association
(ANA) is to promote ________________ of nursing care in the United States.
florence nightingale - Correct answer ✔✔ ______________ ____________ has always been
called the "founder of nursing."
,dorothea dix - Correct answer ✔✔ A schoolteacher by the name of _____________
_________helped established asylums and psychiatric hospitals for the mentally ill.
phenothiazines - Correct answer ✔✔ The first psychotropic drug category was known as
____________________.
hill-burton - Correct answer ✔✔ The first major federal law to address mental illness was called
the _____-_______ Act.
1. Cost of the facilities
2. The increased use of phenothiazines
3. Staff cost
4. Establishment of outpatient clinics - Correct answer ✔✔ What trends contributed to the
deinstitutionalization of mental health facilities to outpatient care (select all that apply)?
1. Cost of the facilities
2. The increased use of phenothiazines
3. Staff cost
4. Establishment of outpatient clinics
5. Development of the Patient Bill of Rights
4. "What is it like at home with your spouse?" - Correct answer ✔✔ Which question by the
nurse would gain the most information from a patient experiencing a marital crisis?
1. "Do you hate your spouse?"
2. "Do you get along with your in-laws?"
3. "Do you talk out your problems with your spouse?"
4. "What is it like at home with your spouse?"
, 1. "What is it that concerns you the most?" - Correct answer ✔✔ The mother of a young patient
with schizophrenia seeks out the nurse and begins to cry. The mother expresses concern over
her daughter's behavior. The nurse's best response to this woman is:
1. "What is it that concerns you the most?"
2. "Well, you know, that is part of the illness."
3. "Here is a book on schizophrenia. This will help you."
4. "Are you afraid your daughter will always be like this?"
2. "Tell me how you are feeling today." - Correct answer ✔✔ Linda is pacing the floor and
appears extremely anxious. The day-shift nurse approaches Linda in an attempt to lessen her
anxiety. The most therapeutic statement by the nurse would be:
1. "How about watching a football game?"
2. "Tell me how you are feeling today."
3. "What do you have to be upset about now?"
4. Ignore the patient.
4. Giving information - Correct answer ✔✔ A patient states, "I don't know what the pills are for
or why I am taking them, so I don't want them." What therapeutic communication would best
help this patient?
1. Ask for what you need
2. Silence
3. Using general leads
4. Giving information
4. Demonstrate therapeutic communication. - Correct answer ✔✔ To practice effectively in
mental health, the nurse should be able to:
1. Solve his or her own personal problems without assistance from others.
2. Comfortably point out patient shortcomings and provide advice about how to improve.
QUESTIONS 2026/2027
1. Nightingale - Correct answer ✔✔ The act of developing a clean environment is a factor in
providing effective health care as demonstrated by:
1. Nightingale.
2. Benner.
3. Swanson.
4. King.
3. notes on nursing - Correct answer ✔✔ What is the name of the publication written by
Florence Nightingale?
1. Nursing Sanitation Notes
2. Nursing 101
3. Notes on Nursing
4. Nursing Notes
1. return the patient to the community - Correct answer ✔✔ A long-term goal for inpatient
mental health treatment is generally to:
1. Return the patient to the community.
2. Locate a facility for long-term care.
3. Be arrested and placed in prison.
4. Be completely cured of the disorder.
3. asylums - Correct answer ✔✔ The mentally ill were once housed in mental institutions known
as:
1. Hospitals.
,2. Long-term care facilities.
3. Asylums.
4. Free-standing treatment centers.
1. Hildegard Peplau - Correct answer ✔✔ Which nursing theorists promoted the interpersonal
theory between the nurse and the patient?
1. Hildegard Peplau
2. Hattie Bessent
3. Mary Mahoney
4. Linda Richards
Jane Taylor - Correct answer ✔✔ The first psychiatric program of study was established by
which nursing leader? ______ _______ _________
Linda Richards - Correct answer ✔✔ Which nurse theorist was the first American-trained nurse
credited with teaching how to provide care for people with mental illness? ___________
____________
phenothiazines - Correct answer ✔✔ The greatest advance in the early years of mental health
care was the introduction of ___________________.
1946 - Correct answer ✔✔ The legislation that provided funding for improving the care of the
mentally ill is known as the National Mental Health Act of what year? ______.
standardization - Correct answer ✔✔ One of the goals of the American Nurses association
(ANA) is to promote ________________ of nursing care in the United States.
florence nightingale - Correct answer ✔✔ ______________ ____________ has always been
called the "founder of nursing."
,dorothea dix - Correct answer ✔✔ A schoolteacher by the name of _____________
_________helped established asylums and psychiatric hospitals for the mentally ill.
phenothiazines - Correct answer ✔✔ The first psychotropic drug category was known as
____________________.
hill-burton - Correct answer ✔✔ The first major federal law to address mental illness was called
the _____-_______ Act.
1. Cost of the facilities
2. The increased use of phenothiazines
3. Staff cost
4. Establishment of outpatient clinics - Correct answer ✔✔ What trends contributed to the
deinstitutionalization of mental health facilities to outpatient care (select all that apply)?
1. Cost of the facilities
2. The increased use of phenothiazines
3. Staff cost
4. Establishment of outpatient clinics
5. Development of the Patient Bill of Rights
4. "What is it like at home with your spouse?" - Correct answer ✔✔ Which question by the
nurse would gain the most information from a patient experiencing a marital crisis?
1. "Do you hate your spouse?"
2. "Do you get along with your in-laws?"
3. "Do you talk out your problems with your spouse?"
4. "What is it like at home with your spouse?"
, 1. "What is it that concerns you the most?" - Correct answer ✔✔ The mother of a young patient
with schizophrenia seeks out the nurse and begins to cry. The mother expresses concern over
her daughter's behavior. The nurse's best response to this woman is:
1. "What is it that concerns you the most?"
2. "Well, you know, that is part of the illness."
3. "Here is a book on schizophrenia. This will help you."
4. "Are you afraid your daughter will always be like this?"
2. "Tell me how you are feeling today." - Correct answer ✔✔ Linda is pacing the floor and
appears extremely anxious. The day-shift nurse approaches Linda in an attempt to lessen her
anxiety. The most therapeutic statement by the nurse would be:
1. "How about watching a football game?"
2. "Tell me how you are feeling today."
3. "What do you have to be upset about now?"
4. Ignore the patient.
4. Giving information - Correct answer ✔✔ A patient states, "I don't know what the pills are for
or why I am taking them, so I don't want them." What therapeutic communication would best
help this patient?
1. Ask for what you need
2. Silence
3. Using general leads
4. Giving information
4. Demonstrate therapeutic communication. - Correct answer ✔✔ To practice effectively in
mental health, the nurse should be able to:
1. Solve his or her own personal problems without assistance from others.
2. Comfortably point out patient shortcomings and provide advice about how to improve.
