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This Test Bank for Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice, 7th Edition by Mary Ann Boyd provides a complete set of verified exam questions covering all 43 chapters. Includes multiple-choice questions, true/false items, short-answer questions, and case-based scenarios. Topics include psychiatric assessment, psychopharmacology, mood and anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, substance use, crisis intervention, therapeutic communication, and culturally competent care. Ideal for nursing students preparing for quizzes, midterms, finals, and NCLEX exams.

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, Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice (7th Edition by Mary Ann Boyd)

Table of Contents 1
Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice 2
Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Disorders 6
Chapter 03: Cultural and Spiritual Issues Related to Mental Health Care 10
Chapter 04: PatientthRights and Legal Issues 14
Chapter 05: Mental Health Care in the Community 18
Chapter 06: Ethics, Standards, and Nursing Frameworks 21
Chapter 07: Psychosocial Theoretic Basis of Psychiatric Nursing 25
Chapter 08: Biologic Foundations of Psychiatric Nursing 29
Chapter 09: Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship 33
Chapter 10: The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Process 37
Chapter 11: Psychopharmacology, Dietary Supplements, and Biologic Interventions41
Chapter 12: Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing 46
Chapter 13: Group Interventions 50
Chapter 14: Family Assessment and Interventions 54
Chapter 15: Mental Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents 58
Chapter 16: Mental Health Promotion for Young and Middle-Aged Adults 61
Chapter 17: Mental Health Promotion for Older Adults 64
Chapter 18: Stress and Mental Health 68
Chapter 19: Management of Anger, Aggression, and Violence 72
Chapter 20: Crisis, Loss, Grief, Response, Bereavement, and Disaster Management76
Chapter 21: Suicide Prevention: Screening, Assessment, and Intervention 80
Chapter 22: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: Nursing Care of Persons with
Thought
Disorders 84
Chapter 23: Depression: Management of Depressive Moods and Suicidal 92
Behavior 96
Ch apter 24: Bipolar Disorders: Management of Mood Lability 99
Chapter 25: Anxiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety, Phobia, and Panich 103
Chapt er 26: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders 105
Chapter 27: Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
Chapter 28: Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder: Management of 106
Emotion alDysregulation and Self-Harm

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Chapter 29: Antisocial Personality and Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct
Disorders

109
Chapter 30: Addiction and Substance-Related Disorders 113
Chapter 31: Eating Disorders: Management of Eating and Weighth 117
Chapt er 32: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
121
Chapter 33: Nursing Care of Persons with Insomnia and Sleep Problems
125
Chapter 34: Sexual Disorders: Management of Sexual Dysfunction and
Paraphilia s 129

Chapter 35: Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents 132
Chapter 36: Mental Health Disorders of Childhood and 135
Adolescenceth
139
Chapter 37: Mental Health Assessment of Older Adults
142
Chapter 38: Neurocognitive Disorders
146
Chapter 39: Caring for Persons Who Are Homeless and Mentally
Ill 150
Chapter 40: Caring for Persons With Co-occurring Mental 154
Disorders 158
Chapter 41: Caring for Survivors of Viole nce and Abuse
162
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 t heevolution of mental health care
and arediscussing the recomm endations of the final
report of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and
Health. The students demonstrate understandi ng of
this information when they identify that the
reportrecomm ended an increase in which of the t


following?
A) Numbers of mental health hospitals
B) State funding for mental health
care C) Clinics supplemented by general hospital units
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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 psychiatricmental health nurses in the
provision of holistic n ursing care. Integrating knowledge of the various theories
and views of mentalhealth and illness, t he nurse identifies which of the following
as most strongly linked to this holistic approach?
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 develop ment of contemporary mental health and illness care. When
th


describing the effects of World WarII, w hich of the following would the instructor
include?
A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable.
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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 psychiatricmental
health nursing and itsplace within nursing history. Which of the following would
be most appropriate to include?
A) Certification for the psychiatricmental health nursing specialty was first
emphasized by M ary Adelaide Nutting.
B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized patients
got treatment at community mental health centers.
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C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male students and the f
th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th


irst training school for psychiatric nursing.
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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 psychiatricmental health nursing and the
role it has played in nursing‟s overall history. Which statement is most accurate? th


A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
th t h th th th th th th th


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.

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