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Psychiatric-Mental Health Final Exam
Questions And Answers |Latest 2025 |
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Florence Nightingale - Answer✔Early founder of psychiatric nursing; focused on holistic care
Linda Richards - Answer✔Started the 1st mental health hospital in the US; advocated for acute
care treatment
Hildegard Peplau - Answer✔Mother of psychiatric nursing; emphasized therapeutic
patient/nurse relationship and communication
Dorthea Dix - Answer✔Pioneer for mental health care; worked with prison systems and
advocated for mental institutions
Mental health - Answer✔Emotional and psychological balance; integral part of overall health
Stigma - Answer✔Stereotypes leading to prejudice and discrimination; negative images in
media
Single most important goal of psychiatric nursing - Answer✔Recovery; process of change for
individuals to improve health and wellness
Self-awareness - Answer✔Understanding one's own beliefs, thoughts, motivations, biases, and
limitations
Culture - Answer✔Way of life; learned beliefs, values, and behaviors from interpersonal
transactions
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Culture identity - Answer✔Set of cultural beliefs as standards of behavior
Cultural competence - Answer✔Understanding and accepting someone else's culture to plan
their care
Spirituality - Answer✔Focus on human spirit and soul, not physical body
Religion - Answer✔Belief system with defined beliefs, worship, teachings, and theology
Self-determinism - Answer✔Right to choose one's own health-related behaviors
Voluntary admission - Answer✔Inpatient care sought by a patient, retains full civil rights
Involuntary commitment - Answer✔Court-ordered admission for mentally disordered patients
who are dangerous to self or others
Duty to warn - Answer✔Obligation to warn someone if a patient expresses homicidal ideations
involving them
Advance care directives in mental health - Answer✔Living will, durable power of attorney,
psychiatric advance directives
Informed consent - Answer✔Legal procedure to ensure patient understands benefits and costs
of treatment
Veracity - Answer✔Being honest and truthful
Autonomy - Answer✔Patient's right to make their own healthcare decisions
Beneficence - Answer✔Duty to do good
Non-maleficence - Answer✔Duty to do no harm
Justice - Answer✔Treating patients fairly and equally
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Psychiatric-Mental Health Final Exam
Questions And Answers |Latest 2025 |
Guaranteed Pass
Florence Nightingale - Answer✔Early founder of psychiatric nursing; focused on holistic care
Linda Richards - Answer✔Started the 1st mental health hospital in the US; advocated for acute
care treatment
Hildegard Peplau - Answer✔Mother of psychiatric nursing; emphasized therapeutic
patient/nurse relationship and communication
Dorthea Dix - Answer✔Pioneer for mental health care; worked with prison systems and
advocated for mental institutions
Mental health - Answer✔Emotional and psychological balance; integral part of overall health
Stigma - Answer✔Stereotypes leading to prejudice and discrimination; negative images in
media
Single most important goal of psychiatric nursing - Answer✔Recovery; process of change for
individuals to improve health and wellness
Self-awareness - Answer✔Understanding one's own beliefs, thoughts, motivations, biases, and
limitations
Culture - Answer✔Way of life; learned beliefs, values, and behaviors from interpersonal
transactions
1|Page
, ©THESTAR 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 11:44 AM A+
Culture identity - Answer✔Set of cultural beliefs as standards of behavior
Cultural competence - Answer✔Understanding and accepting someone else's culture to plan
their care
Spirituality - Answer✔Focus on human spirit and soul, not physical body
Religion - Answer✔Belief system with defined beliefs, worship, teachings, and theology
Self-determinism - Answer✔Right to choose one's own health-related behaviors
Voluntary admission - Answer✔Inpatient care sought by a patient, retains full civil rights
Involuntary commitment - Answer✔Court-ordered admission for mentally disordered patients
who are dangerous to self or others
Duty to warn - Answer✔Obligation to warn someone if a patient expresses homicidal ideations
involving them
Advance care directives in mental health - Answer✔Living will, durable power of attorney,
psychiatric advance directives
Informed consent - Answer✔Legal procedure to ensure patient understands benefits and costs
of treatment
Veracity - Answer✔Being honest and truthful
Autonomy - Answer✔Patient's right to make their own healthcare decisions
Beneficence - Answer✔Duty to do good
Non-maleficence - Answer✔Duty to do no harm
Justice - Answer✔Treating patients fairly and equally
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