NSG130 - Exam #1 questions with
verified answers to pass
What resulted from the Mental Health Act of 1946? - correct answer ✔✔Established the
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and provided funding for mental health research.
Historical Perspective of Mental Health: - correct answer ✔✔Historically shown stigmatized
which resulted in the individual becoming isolated.
Contemporary perspective of mental health: - correct answer ✔✔- More focus on diagnosis,
pharmacology treatment, and improved legal policy
- Range from institutionalization to community-based care
Goals from contemporary perspective: - correct answer ✔✔Quality of life and well-being
(prevention/screening, assessment and treatment)
Holistic nursing in the mental health setting: - correct answer ✔✔Assess client values and
practices.
(Example: Acupuncture, massage therapy, natural herbs, specific diet, exercise pattern.)
Consider the client's physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health.
Patient rights regarding privacy on inpatient unit: - correct answer ✔✔1. Right to humane
treatment
2. Right to consent/confidentality
,3. Right to refuse treatment
4. Patient autonomy
Exceptions in client rights: - correct answer ✔✔Admitted for treatment against their will
(involuntary hold)
By limiting client choices nurse is trying to practice beneficence and non-maleficence in
preventing the client from harming themselves or another.
Public-stigma - correct answer ✔✔negative and discriminatory attitudes others have about
mental illness
Self-stigma - correct answer ✔✔negative, internalized views about oneself and one's mental
illness
Institutional-stigma - correct answer ✔✔government or private institutional policies that
intentionally or unintentionally limit opportunities for those with mental illness
What is DSM-5-TR? - correct answer ✔✔Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(used by other countries to classify mental health disorders)
What is the purposes for DSM-5-TR? - correct answer ✔✔To assist providers in using common
diagnostic language to describe clients with mental health disorders
Purpose of DSM-5-TR for nurses? - correct answer ✔✔Nurses use the book as a reference to
assist with planning, implementation, and evaluating care (nursing interventions)
,What is important with regard to changing manifestations? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse should
report any change in manifestations to supervisors RN to ensure accuracy for best quality level
care
What is mental health? - correct answer ✔✔The foundation for emotions, thinking,
communication, learning, resilience, and self-esteem. Mental health is also key to relationship,
individual and emotional well-being and contributing to community or society.
What is mental health illness? - correct answer ✔✔Health conditions involving changes in
emotion, thinking or behavior (or a combination of these). Mental illnesses are associated with
distress and/or problems functioning in social, work, or family activities.
What are risk factors for mental health/illness? - correct answer ✔✔Traumatic life events
Biological/chemical imbalances (substance use)
loneliness/isolation
economic factors
cultural beliefs
What constitutes a mental health disorder? - correct answer ✔✔Diagnostic term for a group of
illness manifestations. Disorders can be broken down into a variety of categories, often by their
symptoms.
What is the mental health continnuum? - correct answer ✔✔Range of mental health
functioning with adaptive (wellness, health coping) on one end of the spectrum and
maladaptive (illness, unhealthy coping, or an inability to cope) on the other end of the
spectrum. It is influenced by the individual's response to factors including behaviors, emotions,
cognition, and physical adaptation.
What are the stages of the mental health continuum? - correct answer ✔✔1. Excelling
2. Thriving
, 3. Surviving
4. Struggling
5. Crisis
Social determinants of mental health (SDOHM): - correct answer ✔✔Conditions in which
people live, work, play, and age impact their mental health
SDOMH examples: - correct answer ✔✔Lack of social support, educational/income inequities,
unhealthy/unsafe surroundings/neighborhood and more
Contributing factors: - correct answer ✔✔Factors can include life experiences, such as trauma
or history of abuse, medical illness (often chronic, such as thyroid problems, cancer, or
diabetes), social factors, biological or genetic factors, or use of substances (alcohol or
recreational drugs).
Implicit bias: - correct answer ✔✔When the bias occurs outside of one's conscious awareness.
Explicit bias: - correct answer ✔✔Intentionally displaying behaviors of discrimination toward
someone.
Professional stigma: - correct answer ✔✔Negative views or opinions of PT by nurse
Self-stigma: - correct answer ✔✔Negative self-talk
Experienced stigma: - correct answer ✔✔Living with the experience of effects of stigma
Prejudice: - correct answer ✔✔A preconceived belief about an individual not based on facts.
verified answers to pass
What resulted from the Mental Health Act of 1946? - correct answer ✔✔Established the
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and provided funding for mental health research.
Historical Perspective of Mental Health: - correct answer ✔✔Historically shown stigmatized
which resulted in the individual becoming isolated.
Contemporary perspective of mental health: - correct answer ✔✔- More focus on diagnosis,
pharmacology treatment, and improved legal policy
- Range from institutionalization to community-based care
Goals from contemporary perspective: - correct answer ✔✔Quality of life and well-being
(prevention/screening, assessment and treatment)
Holistic nursing in the mental health setting: - correct answer ✔✔Assess client values and
practices.
(Example: Acupuncture, massage therapy, natural herbs, specific diet, exercise pattern.)
Consider the client's physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health.
Patient rights regarding privacy on inpatient unit: - correct answer ✔✔1. Right to humane
treatment
2. Right to consent/confidentality
,3. Right to refuse treatment
4. Patient autonomy
Exceptions in client rights: - correct answer ✔✔Admitted for treatment against their will
(involuntary hold)
By limiting client choices nurse is trying to practice beneficence and non-maleficence in
preventing the client from harming themselves or another.
Public-stigma - correct answer ✔✔negative and discriminatory attitudes others have about
mental illness
Self-stigma - correct answer ✔✔negative, internalized views about oneself and one's mental
illness
Institutional-stigma - correct answer ✔✔government or private institutional policies that
intentionally or unintentionally limit opportunities for those with mental illness
What is DSM-5-TR? - correct answer ✔✔Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(used by other countries to classify mental health disorders)
What is the purposes for DSM-5-TR? - correct answer ✔✔To assist providers in using common
diagnostic language to describe clients with mental health disorders
Purpose of DSM-5-TR for nurses? - correct answer ✔✔Nurses use the book as a reference to
assist with planning, implementation, and evaluating care (nursing interventions)
,What is important with regard to changing manifestations? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse should
report any change in manifestations to supervisors RN to ensure accuracy for best quality level
care
What is mental health? - correct answer ✔✔The foundation for emotions, thinking,
communication, learning, resilience, and self-esteem. Mental health is also key to relationship,
individual and emotional well-being and contributing to community or society.
What is mental health illness? - correct answer ✔✔Health conditions involving changes in
emotion, thinking or behavior (or a combination of these). Mental illnesses are associated with
distress and/or problems functioning in social, work, or family activities.
What are risk factors for mental health/illness? - correct answer ✔✔Traumatic life events
Biological/chemical imbalances (substance use)
loneliness/isolation
economic factors
cultural beliefs
What constitutes a mental health disorder? - correct answer ✔✔Diagnostic term for a group of
illness manifestations. Disorders can be broken down into a variety of categories, often by their
symptoms.
What is the mental health continnuum? - correct answer ✔✔Range of mental health
functioning with adaptive (wellness, health coping) on one end of the spectrum and
maladaptive (illness, unhealthy coping, or an inability to cope) on the other end of the
spectrum. It is influenced by the individual's response to factors including behaviors, emotions,
cognition, and physical adaptation.
What are the stages of the mental health continuum? - correct answer ✔✔1. Excelling
2. Thriving
, 3. Surviving
4. Struggling
5. Crisis
Social determinants of mental health (SDOHM): - correct answer ✔✔Conditions in which
people live, work, play, and age impact their mental health
SDOMH examples: - correct answer ✔✔Lack of social support, educational/income inequities,
unhealthy/unsafe surroundings/neighborhood and more
Contributing factors: - correct answer ✔✔Factors can include life experiences, such as trauma
or history of abuse, medical illness (often chronic, such as thyroid problems, cancer, or
diabetes), social factors, biological or genetic factors, or use of substances (alcohol or
recreational drugs).
Implicit bias: - correct answer ✔✔When the bias occurs outside of one's conscious awareness.
Explicit bias: - correct answer ✔✔Intentionally displaying behaviors of discrimination toward
someone.
Professional stigma: - correct answer ✔✔Negative views or opinions of PT by nurse
Self-stigma: - correct answer ✔✔Negative self-talk
Experienced stigma: - correct answer ✔✔Living with the experience of effects of stigma
Prejudice: - correct answer ✔✔A preconceived belief about an individual not based on facts.
