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, TEST BANK FOR PSYCHIATRIC
NURSING CONTEMPORARY
PRACTICE, 7TH EDITION, MARY
ANN BOYD
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
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.
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SCHOLARVAULT
, TEST BANK FOR PSYCHIATRIC
NURSING CONTEMPORARY
PRACTICE, 7TH EDITION, MARY
ANN BOYD
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
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.
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