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Test Bank for Introductory Mental
Health Nursing 5th Edition by Cynthia
Kincheloe
All Chapters 1-19| 100% Expert Approved A+ PASS
Answers at the Back of Each Chapter
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Chapter 1 Mental Health and Mental Illness
1. When studying mental health and mental illness, the student nurse learns that which of the following is
evidence of our mental health?
A) Our ability to function well with others
B) Our ability to defend what we believe
C) Our ability to perform demanding tasks on the job
D) Our ability to defend those weaker than we are
2. A mental health nurse is teaching a class in anger management. She teaches the patients that
recognizing what triggers their anger response allows them to do which of the following?
A) Manipulate the situation to get what you want
B) Stand up for ones beliefs against the cultural beliefs of a community
C) Gives them the opportunity to gain control of their anger
D) Control the things that trigger their anger
3. Which of the following are factors that could be part of a persons cultural identity? (Select all that
apply.)
A) Common family customs
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B) Common language
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C) Common stressors
D) Gender
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E) Adaptive resources
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4. What would a culturally competent nurse know that some cultural and ethnic groups feel that mental
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illness is caused by?
A) Demon possession
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B) Pretense
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C) The stars
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D) Hypnosis
5. A staff educator is discussing stress and its impact on a disease process, whether it is physical or
mental. What would be the best statement about stress that the educator could give?
A) Stress can be prostress or distress.
B) Stress can never enhance the feeling of well-being.
C) Stress can be either physically or emotionally exhausting, but not both.
D) Distress is actually harmful to ones health.
6. A patient comes to the clinic to see the Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. The patient states, I seem to
be miserable and upset all the time. My marriage is crumbling because my wife refuses to understand how
I feel. What does the nurse practitioner understand about the factors contributing to the patients stress?
A) Internal situations often make us miserable and upset
B) External situations often make us miserable and upset
C) We choose to make ourselves miserable and upset
D) We choose to live with chronic stress
7. As a mental health nurse, you know that when a person feels insulted, mental images of resentment and
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animosity may be formed. These images generate what?
A) The need to fight back
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B) The need to change their behavior
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C) The need to project blame onto the other person
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D) The need to manipulate the situation
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A
8. Mental health nurses know that stress management is an important part of patient care. What is one
way a mental health nurse could help the patient cope with stress?
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A) Teach mentalization
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B) Teach hypnosis
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C) Teach imagination
D) Teach visualization
9. To help patients deal with their stress, nurses must also learn to cope with their own. Which of the
following is an adaptive coping strategy that might be used by the nurse?
A) Reframing
B) Mediation
C) Asset training
D) Mental blocking
10. An 18-year-old college student is very anxious about auditioning for the schools famous chorale.
Which of the following ways of dealing with this anxiety would the nurse recognize as being
maladaptive?
A) Arranging for voice lessons
B) Practicing the songs used in the audition
C) Going to a concert
D) Singing with a group of friends
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11. Several steps occur in the crisis sequence. What is one of these steps?
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A) Organization recurs
B) Violence
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C) Autonomic response
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D) Peripheral nervous system response
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A
12. A 70-year-old man is admitted to the hospital in a severe state of malnutrition. The nurse learns that
he lost his wife 3 months ago and is living alone in a rural area. His family lives at a great distance and
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rarely visits him. He is not eating for several days at a time and is not paying his bills. He is now without
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electricity and phone service at his home. When his son asks the nurse what is wrong with his father, what
would be the nurses best response?
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A) He is grieving for his wife.
B) He has colon cancer and is dying.
C) He has a malabsorption disorder.
D) He feels alone and useless.
13. A 28-year-old woman, whose husband and two children were killed in a hurricane 3 years ago, has
dated several men in the past 18 months. She has never allowed a serious relationship to develop, always
finding a reason to end the relationship after a couple of months. What is a reason that this woman may
not be able to form a serious, lasting relationship with a man?
A) Unresolved grieving from a loss when she was 15 years old
B) The patient has had multiple losses
C) Guilt with regard to circumstances at or near the time of loss
D) The patient has ambivalent feelings toward the lost person
14. A new nurse has just begun work in a mental health facility. During orientation, the nurse learns about
chronic sorrow. What should this nurse learn that is considered chronic sorrow?
A) Twelve continuous months of coping with a loss
B) Inability to complete the coping process
Fr
C) A prolonged and intensified resolution
D) A prolonged and intensified reaction
an
kl
15. A patient who responds to acute stress by fleeing from the situation is demonstrating the fight-or-
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flight response. Which of the following describes this response?
A) A surge of adrenalin into the bloodstream in response to an immediate threat
e
B) A lapse of judgment that causes a person to avoid consequences
A
C) A positive response to an insulting situation
pl
D) A result of chronic stress
us
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16. The nurse is caring for a patient whose husband is dying. The patient says that the doctors caring for
her husband are very good and that she knows her husband will recover. The nurse recognizes that the
patient is likely in which stage of grief?
A) Anger
B) Denial
C) Acceptance
D) Bargaining
17. As a mental health nurse, you are initiating therapeutic strategies for a patient who is in psychological
crisis. You initiate therapeutic strategies that are designed to do what?
A) Teach the person in crisis a lesson
B) Assist in preventing future emotional states of dysfunction
C) Assist in identifying future behaviors
D) Teach the person in crisis how to diffuse the anger
18. During the mental health clinical rotation, a student nurse asks what types of triggers increase stress
levels. What would be the most likely answer the student nurse could get?
A) Expected triggers
Fr
B) One-time triggers
C) Intense triggers
an
D) Controllable triggers
kl
yn
19. A patient on the medical/psychiatric unit has been seen pacing back and forth in his room. The nurse
asks him what is wrong. The patient responds, I dont know. What is this an example of?
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A) Stress
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B) Anxiety
pl
C) Distress
us
D) Grief
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Test Bank for Introductory Mental
Health Nursing 5th Edition by Cynthia
Kincheloe
All Chapters 1-19| 100% Expert Approved A+ PASS
Answers at the Back of Each Chapter
Fr
an
kl
yn
e
A
pl
us
Pa
Page 1 of 153
ss
, Franklyn A Plus Pass
Chapter 1 Mental Health and Mental Illness
1. When studying mental health and mental illness, the student nurse learns that which of the following is
evidence of our mental health?
A) Our ability to function well with others
B) Our ability to defend what we believe
C) Our ability to perform demanding tasks on the job
D) Our ability to defend those weaker than we are
2. A mental health nurse is teaching a class in anger management. She teaches the patients that
recognizing what triggers their anger response allows them to do which of the following?
A) Manipulate the situation to get what you want
B) Stand up for ones beliefs against the cultural beliefs of a community
C) Gives them the opportunity to gain control of their anger
D) Control the things that trigger their anger
3. Which of the following are factors that could be part of a persons cultural identity? (Select all that
apply.)
A) Common family customs
Fr
B) Common language
an
C) Common stressors
D) Gender
kl
E) Adaptive resources
yn
e
4. What would a culturally competent nurse know that some cultural and ethnic groups feel that mental
A
illness is caused by?
A) Demon possession
pl
B) Pretense
us
C) The stars
Pa
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D) Hypnosis
5. A staff educator is discussing stress and its impact on a disease process, whether it is physical or
mental. What would be the best statement about stress that the educator could give?
A) Stress can be prostress or distress.
B) Stress can never enhance the feeling of well-being.
C) Stress can be either physically or emotionally exhausting, but not both.
D) Distress is actually harmful to ones health.
6. A patient comes to the clinic to see the Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. The patient states, I seem to
be miserable and upset all the time. My marriage is crumbling because my wife refuses to understand how
I feel. What does the nurse practitioner understand about the factors contributing to the patients stress?
A) Internal situations often make us miserable and upset
B) External situations often make us miserable and upset
C) We choose to make ourselves miserable and upset
D) We choose to live with chronic stress
7. As a mental health nurse, you know that when a person feels insulted, mental images of resentment and
Fr
animosity may be formed. These images generate what?
A) The need to fight back
an
B) The need to change their behavior
kl
C) The need to project blame onto the other person
yn
D) The need to manipulate the situation
e
A
8. Mental health nurses know that stress management is an important part of patient care. What is one
way a mental health nurse could help the patient cope with stress?
pl
A) Teach mentalization
us
B) Teach hypnosis
Pa
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C) Teach imagination
D) Teach visualization
9. To help patients deal with their stress, nurses must also learn to cope with their own. Which of the
following is an adaptive coping strategy that might be used by the nurse?
A) Reframing
B) Mediation
C) Asset training
D) Mental blocking
10. An 18-year-old college student is very anxious about auditioning for the schools famous chorale.
Which of the following ways of dealing with this anxiety would the nurse recognize as being
maladaptive?
A) Arranging for voice lessons
B) Practicing the songs used in the audition
C) Going to a concert
D) Singing with a group of friends
Fr
11. Several steps occur in the crisis sequence. What is one of these steps?
an
A) Organization recurs
B) Violence
kl
C) Autonomic response
yn
D) Peripheral nervous system response
e
A
12. A 70-year-old man is admitted to the hospital in a severe state of malnutrition. The nurse learns that
he lost his wife 3 months ago and is living alone in a rural area. His family lives at a great distance and
pl
rarely visits him. He is not eating for several days at a time and is not paying his bills. He is now without
us
electricity and phone service at his home. When his son asks the nurse what is wrong with his father, what
would be the nurses best response?
Pa
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A) He is grieving for his wife.
B) He has colon cancer and is dying.
C) He has a malabsorption disorder.
D) He feels alone and useless.
13. A 28-year-old woman, whose husband and two children were killed in a hurricane 3 years ago, has
dated several men in the past 18 months. She has never allowed a serious relationship to develop, always
finding a reason to end the relationship after a couple of months. What is a reason that this woman may
not be able to form a serious, lasting relationship with a man?
A) Unresolved grieving from a loss when she was 15 years old
B) The patient has had multiple losses
C) Guilt with regard to circumstances at or near the time of loss
D) The patient has ambivalent feelings toward the lost person
14. A new nurse has just begun work in a mental health facility. During orientation, the nurse learns about
chronic sorrow. What should this nurse learn that is considered chronic sorrow?
A) Twelve continuous months of coping with a loss
B) Inability to complete the coping process
Fr
C) A prolonged and intensified resolution
D) A prolonged and intensified reaction
an
kl
15. A patient who responds to acute stress by fleeing from the situation is demonstrating the fight-or-
yn
flight response. Which of the following describes this response?
A) A surge of adrenalin into the bloodstream in response to an immediate threat
e
B) A lapse of judgment that causes a person to avoid consequences
A
C) A positive response to an insulting situation
pl
D) A result of chronic stress
us
Pa
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16. The nurse is caring for a patient whose husband is dying. The patient says that the doctors caring for
her husband are very good and that she knows her husband will recover. The nurse recognizes that the
patient is likely in which stage of grief?
A) Anger
B) Denial
C) Acceptance
D) Bargaining
17. As a mental health nurse, you are initiating therapeutic strategies for a patient who is in psychological
crisis. You initiate therapeutic strategies that are designed to do what?
A) Teach the person in crisis a lesson
B) Assist in preventing future emotional states of dysfunction
C) Assist in identifying future behaviors
D) Teach the person in crisis how to diffuse the anger
18. During the mental health clinical rotation, a student nurse asks what types of triggers increase stress
levels. What would be the most likely answer the student nurse could get?
A) Expected triggers
Fr
B) One-time triggers
C) Intense triggers
an
D) Controllable triggers
kl
yn
19. A patient on the medical/psychiatric unit has been seen pacing back and forth in his room. The nurse
asks him what is wrong. The patient responds, I dont know. What is this an example of?
e
A) Stress
A
B) Anxiety
pl
C) Distress
us
D) Grief
Pa
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