Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary
Practice 8th Edition by Mary A. Boyd &
Rebecca A. Luebbert – TEST BANK
COMPLETE CHAPTERS 1-43| EXPERT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ANSWERS ARE AT THE END OF EACH CHAPTER
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, Table of Contents
Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Chapter 03: Cultural and Spiritual Issues Related to Mental Health Care
Chapter 04: Patient Rights and Legal Issues
Chapter 05: Mental Health Care in the Community
Chapter 06: Ethics, Standards, and Nursing Frameworks
Chapter 07: Psychosocial Theoretic Basis of Psychiatric Nursing
Chapter 08: Biologic Foundations of Psychiatric Nursing
Chapter 09: Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship
Chapter 10: The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Process
Chapter 11: Psychopharmacology, Dietary Supplements, and Biologic Interventions
Chapter 12: Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing
Chapter 13: Group Interventions
Chapter 14: Family Assessment and Interventions
Chapter 15: Mental Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents
Chapter 16: Mental Health Promotion for Young and Middle-Aged Adults
Chapter 17: Mental Health Promotion for Older Adults
Chapter 18: Stress and Mental Health
Chapter 19: Management of Anger, Aggression, and Violence
Chapter 20: Crisis, Loss, Grief, Response, Bereavement, and Disaster Management
Chapter 21: Suicide Prevention: Screening, Assessment, and Intervention
Chapter 22: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: Nursing Care of Persons with Thought Disorders
Chapter 23: Depression: Management of Depressive Moods and Suicidal Behavior
Chapter 24: Bipolar Disorders: Management of Mood Lability
Chapter 25: Anxiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety, Phobia, and Panic
Chapter 26: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
Chapter 27: Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
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Chapter 28: Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder: Management of Emotional Dysregulation and Self-
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,Chapter 29: Antisocial Personality and Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders
Chapter 30: Addiction and Substance-Related Disorders
Chapter 31: Eating Disorders: Management of Eating and Weight
Chapter 32: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
Chapter 33: Nursing Care of Persons with Insomnia and Sleep Problems
Chapter 34: Sexual Disorders: Management of Sexual Dysfunction and Paraphilias
Chapter 35: Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents
Chapter 36: Mental Health Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
Chapter 37: Mental Health Assessment of Older Adults
Chapter 38: Neurocognitive Disorders
Chapter 39: Caring for Persons Who Are Homeless and Mentally Ill
Chapter 40: Caring for Persons With Co-occurring Mental Disorders
Chapter 41: Caring for Survivors of Violence and Abuse
Chapter 42: Caring for Persons With Mental Illness and Criminal Behavior
Chapter 43: Caring for Medically Compromised Persons
Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
1. A group of nursing students are reviewing information about the evolution of mental health care and are
discussing the recommendations of the final report of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health. The
students demonstrate understanding of this information when they identify that the report recommended an increase
in which of the following?
A) Numbers of mental health hospitals
B) State funding for mental health care
C) Clinics supplemented by general hospital units
D) Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists
2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association‟s Statement on Psychiatric Nursing Practice published in
1967, which sanctioned the involvement of psychiatric mental health nurses in the provision of holistic nursing care.
Integrating knowledge of the various theories and views of mental health and illness, the nurse identifies which of
the following as most strongly linked to this holistic approach?
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A) Sigmund Freud‟s psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale‟s Notes on Nursing
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, C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers‟ A Mind That Found Itself
E) Peplau‟s Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
3. A nursing instructor is preparing a presentation about key events and people that influenced the development of
contemporary mental health and illness care. When describing the effects of World War II, which of the following
would the instructor include?
A) People began to view mental illness 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.
4. A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatric-mental health nursing and its place
within nursing history. Which of the following would be most appropriate to include?
A) Certification for the psychiatric-mental health nursing specialty was first emphasized by Mary Adelaide Nutting.
B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized patients got treatment at community mental
health centers.
C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male students and the first training school for
psychiatric nursing.
D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nurses was established in response to the publication of psychiatric
nursing specialty journals.
5. Two nursing students are discussing psychiatric-mental health nursing and the role it has played in nursing‟s
overall history. Which statement is most accurate?
A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
B) The use of self-care to enhance the immune system was taught by Dorothea Dix.
C) The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of deinstitutionalization.
D) Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of therapeutic communication.
6. When reviewing the evolution of mental health and illness care, which event is associated with mental disorders
beginning to be viewed as illnesses requiring treatment?
A) Establishment of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia
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B) Quaker establishment of asylums
C) Creation of the state hospital system
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Practice 8th Edition by Mary A. Boyd &
Rebecca A. Luebbert – TEST BANK
COMPLETE CHAPTERS 1-43| EXPERT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ANSWERS ARE AT THE END OF EACH CHAPTER
TB
Ac
pg. 1
er
, Table of Contents
Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Chapter 03: Cultural and Spiritual Issues Related to Mental Health Care
Chapter 04: Patient Rights and Legal Issues
Chapter 05: Mental Health Care in the Community
Chapter 06: Ethics, Standards, and Nursing Frameworks
Chapter 07: Psychosocial Theoretic Basis of Psychiatric Nursing
Chapter 08: Biologic Foundations of Psychiatric Nursing
Chapter 09: Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship
Chapter 10: The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Process
Chapter 11: Psychopharmacology, Dietary Supplements, and Biologic Interventions
Chapter 12: Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing
Chapter 13: Group Interventions
Chapter 14: Family Assessment and Interventions
Chapter 15: Mental Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents
Chapter 16: Mental Health Promotion for Young and Middle-Aged Adults
Chapter 17: Mental Health Promotion for Older Adults
Chapter 18: Stress and Mental Health
Chapter 19: Management of Anger, Aggression, and Violence
Chapter 20: Crisis, Loss, Grief, Response, Bereavement, and Disaster Management
Chapter 21: Suicide Prevention: Screening, Assessment, and Intervention
Chapter 22: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: Nursing Care of Persons with Thought Disorders
Chapter 23: Depression: Management of Depressive Moods and Suicidal Behavior
Chapter 24: Bipolar Disorders: Management of Mood Lability
Chapter 25: Anxiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety, Phobia, and Panic
Chapter 26: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
Chapter 27: Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
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Chapter 28: Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder: Management of Emotional Dysregulation and Self-
Harm
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,Chapter 29: Antisocial Personality and Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders
Chapter 30: Addiction and Substance-Related Disorders
Chapter 31: Eating Disorders: Management of Eating and Weight
Chapter 32: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
Chapter 33: Nursing Care of Persons with Insomnia and Sleep Problems
Chapter 34: Sexual Disorders: Management of Sexual Dysfunction and Paraphilias
Chapter 35: Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents
Chapter 36: Mental Health Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
Chapter 37: Mental Health Assessment of Older Adults
Chapter 38: Neurocognitive Disorders
Chapter 39: Caring for Persons Who Are Homeless and Mentally Ill
Chapter 40: Caring for Persons With Co-occurring Mental Disorders
Chapter 41: Caring for Survivors of Violence and Abuse
Chapter 42: Caring for Persons With Mental Illness and Criminal Behavior
Chapter 43: Caring for Medically Compromised Persons
Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
1. A group of nursing students are reviewing information about the evolution of mental health care and are
discussing the recommendations of the final report of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health. The
students demonstrate understanding of this information when they identify that the report recommended an increase
in which of the following?
A) Numbers of mental health hospitals
B) State funding for mental health care
C) Clinics supplemented by general hospital units
D) Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists
2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association‟s Statement on Psychiatric Nursing Practice published in
1967, which sanctioned the involvement of psychiatric mental health nurses in the provision of holistic nursing care.
Integrating knowledge of the various theories and views of mental health and illness, the nurse identifies which of
the following as most strongly linked to this holistic approach?
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A) Sigmund Freud‟s psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale‟s Notes on Nursing
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, C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers‟ A Mind That Found Itself
E) Peplau‟s Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
3. A nursing instructor is preparing a presentation about key events and people that influenced the development of
contemporary mental health and illness care. When describing the effects of World War II, which of the following
would the instructor include?
A) People began to view mental illness 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.
4. A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatric-mental health nursing and its place
within nursing history. Which of the following would be most appropriate to include?
A) Certification for the psychiatric-mental health nursing specialty was first emphasized by Mary Adelaide Nutting.
B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized patients got treatment at community mental
health centers.
C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male students and the first training school for
psychiatric nursing.
D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nurses was established in response to the publication of psychiatric
nursing specialty journals.
5. Two nursing students are discussing psychiatric-mental health nursing and the role it has played in nursing‟s
overall history. Which statement is most accurate?
A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
B) The use of self-care to enhance the immune system was taught by Dorothea Dix.
C) The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of deinstitutionalization.
D) Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of therapeutic communication.
6. When reviewing the evolution of mental health and illness care, which event is associated with mental disorders
beginning to be viewed as illnesses requiring treatment?
A) Establishment of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia
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B) Quaker establishment of asylums
C) Creation of the state hospital system
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