NFDN 2007 Unit 1 Exam Questions And
Answers 2024-2025
Mentally ill kept at home till - Answer 19th century
Social change
Affect on mental health - Answer Structural & cultural evolution
Mental health influenced by economic, sociocultural, & political realities
Instability created fear; intolerance of the mentality ill grew
Insane asylums - Answer 19th & early 20th century
Involuntary confinement replacing familial care
Moral treatment - Answer Idea evolved during French revolution
Influenced Philipe Pinel physician in 1700's to begin humane treatment
Insanity act Ans Late 19th century
Legislative basis for the publicly supported confinement of mentally ill
Re-named Mental Health Act
Dorothea Lynde Dix Ans zealous advocate of state-supported public care of mentally ill
Reform in most of North America in 19th century
Charles K. Charles Ans played important part in bringing new models of care
Started urban center with nurse training for personnel
,Beer's Ans Previously institutionalized and abused
Formed committee for 'mental hygiene'
Clarence Hincks - Response Instrumental in founding Canadian National Committee for
Mental Hygiene in 1918
CNCMH - Response Transformed asylums into mental hospitals
Trained nursing staff
Voluntary admission controlled by physicians
Recommended training schools for mental nurses, layer called psychiatric nurses
First mental nurse training school established - Response 1888
Psychiatric Nurses Association of Canada founded - Response 1950
Canadian Federation of Mental Health Nurses established - Response 1988
Charles A. Barager - Initiated nurse training school in Manitoba
Acquired for new diploma psychiatric nursing recognition from Alberta Department of
Health despite opposition of Registered Nurses Association in AB
Scientific thought in 1900's - Response Psychosocially oriented theories: mental illness
due to environmental/social deprivation
Biologic Perspective: etiology is biological in nature and can be treated with physical
intervention
Baths utilized as treatment
Meyer & Psychiatric Pluralism - Answer Introduced concept of Psychiatric Pluralism:
, integration of human biological functions with environment
Henry Cotton - Answer Believed infection induced insanity
Removed sites of infection by surgery (teeth, tonsils, colon)
Psychoanalytical Movement - Answer Early 1900's promised radical new approach
Freud delved into patients feelings and emotions regarding past experiences
Terms like psychosis & neurosis used
Psychosocial Treatment - Answer Baths (just became form of restraint)
Psychosurgery
Electroconvulsive therapy
Psychopharmacology in 1950's
Psychopharmacology and patient care - Answer Increased deinstitutionalization
Focus on the brain for understanding of psychiatric disorder
Chlorpromazine - early neuroleptic drug that became widely used
Lithium - 1970's treatment of bipolar disorder
Antidepressants - treatment of mood disorders
Post-world war 2 - Answer End of 1940's patient over crowding
Resulted in increased federal funding for health services and training of health care
personnel
Universal health insurance hospital care and medical services = 1950's & 1960's
1963 report by CMHA - Answer Policy development for integrated services in general
hospitals
Advocated multidisciplinary services various perspectives (medical, social, & familial)
Answers 2024-2025
Mentally ill kept at home till - Answer 19th century
Social change
Affect on mental health - Answer Structural & cultural evolution
Mental health influenced by economic, sociocultural, & political realities
Instability created fear; intolerance of the mentality ill grew
Insane asylums - Answer 19th & early 20th century
Involuntary confinement replacing familial care
Moral treatment - Answer Idea evolved during French revolution
Influenced Philipe Pinel physician in 1700's to begin humane treatment
Insanity act Ans Late 19th century
Legislative basis for the publicly supported confinement of mentally ill
Re-named Mental Health Act
Dorothea Lynde Dix Ans zealous advocate of state-supported public care of mentally ill
Reform in most of North America in 19th century
Charles K. Charles Ans played important part in bringing new models of care
Started urban center with nurse training for personnel
,Beer's Ans Previously institutionalized and abused
Formed committee for 'mental hygiene'
Clarence Hincks - Response Instrumental in founding Canadian National Committee for
Mental Hygiene in 1918
CNCMH - Response Transformed asylums into mental hospitals
Trained nursing staff
Voluntary admission controlled by physicians
Recommended training schools for mental nurses, layer called psychiatric nurses
First mental nurse training school established - Response 1888
Psychiatric Nurses Association of Canada founded - Response 1950
Canadian Federation of Mental Health Nurses established - Response 1988
Charles A. Barager - Initiated nurse training school in Manitoba
Acquired for new diploma psychiatric nursing recognition from Alberta Department of
Health despite opposition of Registered Nurses Association in AB
Scientific thought in 1900's - Response Psychosocially oriented theories: mental illness
due to environmental/social deprivation
Biologic Perspective: etiology is biological in nature and can be treated with physical
intervention
Baths utilized as treatment
Meyer & Psychiatric Pluralism - Answer Introduced concept of Psychiatric Pluralism:
, integration of human biological functions with environment
Henry Cotton - Answer Believed infection induced insanity
Removed sites of infection by surgery (teeth, tonsils, colon)
Psychoanalytical Movement - Answer Early 1900's promised radical new approach
Freud delved into patients feelings and emotions regarding past experiences
Terms like psychosis & neurosis used
Psychosocial Treatment - Answer Baths (just became form of restraint)
Psychosurgery
Electroconvulsive therapy
Psychopharmacology in 1950's
Psychopharmacology and patient care - Answer Increased deinstitutionalization
Focus on the brain for understanding of psychiatric disorder
Chlorpromazine - early neuroleptic drug that became widely used
Lithium - 1970's treatment of bipolar disorder
Antidepressants - treatment of mood disorders
Post-world war 2 - Answer End of 1940's patient over crowding
Resulted in increased federal funding for health services and training of health care
personnel
Universal health insurance hospital care and medical services = 1950's & 1960's
1963 report by CMHA - Answer Policy development for integrated services in general
hospitals
Advocated multidisciplinary services various perspectives (medical, social, & familial)
