Chapter 1: Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
1. The nurse is working as a case manager in an inpatient psychiatric unit
and preparing discharge planning for a client that is homeless. Which will
be the primary goal of the case manager when coordinating the discharge
care of this client?: Coordinating all types of care so that the client does not
receive fragmented care.
2. The nurse is working in an inpatient mental health facility and caring for
several clients. Which client is most likely to experience the revolving
door phenomenon?: A client with a dual diagnosis of heroin use disorder and
bipolar I disorder.
3. The nurse identifies that mental health issues are constantly evolving.
Which is a standard of professional performance to keep in current
practice?: Education
4. What nursing action demonstrates the intended impact of the American
Nurses Association (ANA) standards of care on mental health nursing care?:
Referring to the standards to determine if a particularly prescribed treatment falls
within the scope of a nurse's practice.
5. The nurse educator is teaching a group of students about the history of
psychiatric nursing. Whom will the nurse identify as being responsible for
stopping the practice of therapeutic bloodletting?: Quakers
6. A nurse is reading a journal article about the changes occurring in
psychiatric-mental health care over the years. The article describes the
deinstitutionalization movement and the reasons for such movement.
Which reason would the nurse most likely find?: View that
institutionalization contributed to mental illness
7. A client comes to the community mental health center for a visit. During
the interview, the client tells the nurse that now he has health insurance
that will allow him to get the treatment he needs. "I couldn't get it before
because of my history of depression." The nurse understands that the
client's ability to obtain health insurance is most likely a direct result of
which legislation?: Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act
8. Hydrotherapy, a primitive treatment, was used for what in the mentally ill
population?: Calming effect
9. A nurse is watching a documentary about psychiatric-mental health
nursing and its evolution over the years. One part of the documentary
describes the development of the therapeutic relationship, mentioning
which individual as its founder?: Hildegarde Peplau
10. The nurse educator is teaching a group of students about the early
psychiatric nursing founders and their perspectives. Which statement(s)
1. The nurse is working as a case manager in an inpatient psychiatric unit
and preparing discharge planning for a client that is homeless. Which will
be the primary goal of the case manager when coordinating the discharge
care of this client?: Coordinating all types of care so that the client does not
receive fragmented care.
2. The nurse is working in an inpatient mental health facility and caring for
several clients. Which client is most likely to experience the revolving
door phenomenon?: A client with a dual diagnosis of heroin use disorder and
bipolar I disorder.
3. The nurse identifies that mental health issues are constantly evolving.
Which is a standard of professional performance to keep in current
practice?: Education
4. What nursing action demonstrates the intended impact of the American
Nurses Association (ANA) standards of care on mental health nursing care?:
Referring to the standards to determine if a particularly prescribed treatment falls
within the scope of a nurse's practice.
5. The nurse educator is teaching a group of students about the history of
psychiatric nursing. Whom will the nurse identify as being responsible for
stopping the practice of therapeutic bloodletting?: Quakers
6. A nurse is reading a journal article about the changes occurring in
psychiatric-mental health care over the years. The article describes the
deinstitutionalization movement and the reasons for such movement.
Which reason would the nurse most likely find?: View that
institutionalization contributed to mental illness
7. A client comes to the community mental health center for a visit. During
the interview, the client tells the nurse that now he has health insurance
that will allow him to get the treatment he needs. "I couldn't get it before
because of my history of depression." The nurse understands that the
client's ability to obtain health insurance is most likely a direct result of
which legislation?: Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act
8. Hydrotherapy, a primitive treatment, was used for what in the mentally ill
population?: Calming effect
9. A nurse is watching a documentary about psychiatric-mental health
nursing and its evolution over the years. One part of the documentary
describes the development of the therapeutic relationship, mentioning
which individual as its founder?: Hildegarde Peplau
10. The nurse educator is teaching a group of students about the early
psychiatric nursing founders and their perspectives. Which statement(s)
