PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
CONTEMPORARY
PRACTICE, questions and
answers 2025/2026 latest
update
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, Answers are in the end
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?
A) Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers' A Mind That Found Itself
E) Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
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CONTEMPORARY
PRACTICE, questions and
answers 2025/2026 latest
update
Page 1
, Answers are in the end
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?
A) Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers' A Mind That Found Itself
E) Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
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