Neeb's Mental Health Nursing 4th Edition Test Bank
Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. The act of developing a clean environment is a factor in providing
effective health care as demonstrated by:
A. Nightingale.
B. Benner.
C. Swanson.
D. King.
____ 2. What is the name of the publication written by Florence Nightingale?
A. Nursing Sanitation Notes
B. Nursing 101
C. Notes on Nursing
D. Nursing Notes
____ 3. A long-term goal for in-patient mental health treatment is generally to:
A. Return the patient to the community.
B. Locate a facility for long term care.
C. Be arrested and placed in prison.
D. Be completely cured of the disorder.
____ 4. The mentally ill were once housed in mental institutions known as:
A. Hospitals.
B. Long-term care facilities.
C. Asylums.
D. Free-standing treatment centers.
____ 5. Which nursing theorists promoted the interpersonal theory between the nurse and the patient?
A. Hildegard Peplau
B. Hattie Bessent
C. Mary Mahoney
D. Linda Richards
Completion
Complete each statement.
6. Phenothiazines were discovered in what year? _______________________.
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7. The first psychiatric program of study was established by which nursing leader? ______
_______ _________
8. Who was the nurse theorist who was the first American-trained nurse credited with teaching
how to provide care for people with mental illness? _______________________
9. The greatest advance in the early years of mental health care was the introduction of
___________________.
10. The legislation that provided funding for improving the care of the mentally ill is known as
the National Mental Health Act of what year? ______.
11. Which nursing organization established the first certification of psychiatric nursing?
_____________________________
12. One of the goals of the American Nurses Association (ANA) is to promote
________________ of nursing care in the United States.
13. ______________ ____________ has always been called the “founder of nursing.”
14. A schoolteacher by the name of _____________ _________established asylums and a
psychiatric hospital for the mentally ill.
15. Special facilities designed to care for the mentally ill in the past were known as
______________.
16. The first psychotropic drug category was known as ____________________.
17. Each state adopts its own set of rules and guidelines that govern the nurses’ performance.
These rules are known as the ___________ Practice Act.
18. The first major federal law to address mental illness was called the ____________ Act.
Multiple Response
Identify one or more choices that best complete the statement or answer the question.
____ 19. What trends contributed to the deinstitutionalization of mental health facilities to outpatient
care (select all that apply):
A. Cost of the facilities.
B. The increased use of phenothiazines.
C. Staff cost.
D. Establishment of Outpatient clinics.
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Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing
Answer Section
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. ANS: A
Florence Nightingale’s commitments to improved outcomes at a military hospital were directly
related to introducing sanitation methods.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Nightingale; page 4
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Community Health | Cognitive Level:
Application | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
2. ANS: C
Florence Nightingale wrote the book Notes on Nursing, which specified the importance of a
clean environment.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Nightingale; page 4
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning| Content Area: Nursing Trends| Cognitive Level:
Knowledge| Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance: Health Promotion/Disease Prevention
3. ANS: A
To eventually return the patient to the community by creating a good support system and
appropriate medication if needed is generally the long-term goal.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Breakthroughs; page 9
KEY: Integrated Processes: Nursing Process: Planning | Content Area: Mental Health | Cognitive Level:
Comprehension | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care: Coordinated
Care
4. ANS: C
Asylums were known as a refuge for the mentally ill as well as the poor in the past.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Asylums; page 8
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Mental Health | Cognitive Level:
Comprehension | Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity: Therapeutic Environment
5. ANS: A
Dr. Peplau brought together theories from psychiatry and merged them with theories for nursing
and communication.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Hildegard Peplau; page 6-7
KEY: Integrated Processes: Communication and Documentation | Content Area: Nursing Trends |
Cognitive Level: Knowledge | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care
COMPLETION
6. ANS:
1955
Phenothiazine is a group of psychotropics that have a calming effect on patients with psychotic
through processes.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Breakthroughs; page 9
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Mental Health Pharmacology | Cognitive
Level: Knowledge | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies:
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Expected Actions/Outcomes
7. ANS:
Effie Jane Taylor
In 1913 the first psychiatric program for nurses was established. Ms. Taylor also believed in
patient-centered care.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Effie Jane Taylor; page 6
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning
8. ANS:
Linda Richards
Linda Richards wanted to upgrade the nursing education field and the Boston city hospital
training school for nurses to teach the specialty of caring for the mentally ill.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Linda Richards; page 5
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Nursing Trends | Cognitive Level:
Knowledge | Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity: Mental Health Concepts
9. ANS:
phenothiazines
This medication controlled psychotic symptoms and led to reductions in the population in mental
health institutions.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Breakthroughs; page 9
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Mental Health: Pharmacology | Cognitive
Level: Knowledge | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
10. ANS:
1946
Money was provided by this legislation for research and training for the improvement of care for
patients with mental health issues.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Laws; page 12
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Mental Health: Treatment | Cognitive
Level: Knowledge | Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity: Mental Health Concepts
11. ANS:
ANA
The American Nurses Association (ANA) developed the certification criteria for psychiatric
nurses. The ANA has developed standards for professional nursing.
PTS: 1
REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Nursing Organizations and Recommendations; page
9
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Nursing Trends | Cognitive Level:
Comprehension | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care
12. ANS:
standardization
The ANA has developed standards for a number of different specialties.
PTS: 1
REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Nursing Organizations and Recommendations; page
9
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Nursing Trends | Cognitive Level:
Knowledge | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Management: Management of care: establishing
priorities
Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. The act of developing a clean environment is a factor in providing
effective health care as demonstrated by:
A. Nightingale.
B. Benner.
C. Swanson.
D. King.
____ 2. What is the name of the publication written by Florence Nightingale?
A. Nursing Sanitation Notes
B. Nursing 101
C. Notes on Nursing
D. Nursing Notes
____ 3. A long-term goal for in-patient mental health treatment is generally to:
A. Return the patient to the community.
B. Locate a facility for long term care.
C. Be arrested and placed in prison.
D. Be completely cured of the disorder.
____ 4. The mentally ill were once housed in mental institutions known as:
A. Hospitals.
B. Long-term care facilities.
C. Asylums.
D. Free-standing treatment centers.
____ 5. Which nursing theorists promoted the interpersonal theory between the nurse and the patient?
A. Hildegard Peplau
B. Hattie Bessent
C. Mary Mahoney
D. Linda Richards
Completion
Complete each statement.
6. Phenothiazines were discovered in what year? _______________________.
, Neeb's Mental Health Nursing 4th Edition Test Bank
7. The first psychiatric program of study was established by which nursing leader? ______
_______ _________
8. Who was the nurse theorist who was the first American-trained nurse credited with teaching
how to provide care for people with mental illness? _______________________
9. The greatest advance in the early years of mental health care was the introduction of
___________________.
10. The legislation that provided funding for improving the care of the mentally ill is known as
the National Mental Health Act of what year? ______.
11. Which nursing organization established the first certification of psychiatric nursing?
_____________________________
12. One of the goals of the American Nurses Association (ANA) is to promote
________________ of nursing care in the United States.
13. ______________ ____________ has always been called the “founder of nursing.”
14. A schoolteacher by the name of _____________ _________established asylums and a
psychiatric hospital for the mentally ill.
15. Special facilities designed to care for the mentally ill in the past were known as
______________.
16. The first psychotropic drug category was known as ____________________.
17. Each state adopts its own set of rules and guidelines that govern the nurses’ performance.
These rules are known as the ___________ Practice Act.
18. The first major federal law to address mental illness was called the ____________ Act.
Multiple Response
Identify one or more choices that best complete the statement or answer the question.
____ 19. What trends contributed to the deinstitutionalization of mental health facilities to outpatient
care (select all that apply):
A. Cost of the facilities.
B. The increased use of phenothiazines.
C. Staff cost.
D. Establishment of Outpatient clinics.
, Neeb's Mental Health Nursing 4th Edition Test Bank
Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing
Answer Section
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. ANS: A
Florence Nightingale’s commitments to improved outcomes at a military hospital were directly
related to introducing sanitation methods.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Nightingale; page 4
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Community Health | Cognitive Level:
Application | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
2. ANS: C
Florence Nightingale wrote the book Notes on Nursing, which specified the importance of a
clean environment.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Nightingale; page 4
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning| Content Area: Nursing Trends| Cognitive Level:
Knowledge| Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance: Health Promotion/Disease Prevention
3. ANS: A
To eventually return the patient to the community by creating a good support system and
appropriate medication if needed is generally the long-term goal.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Breakthroughs; page 9
KEY: Integrated Processes: Nursing Process: Planning | Content Area: Mental Health | Cognitive Level:
Comprehension | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care: Coordinated
Care
4. ANS: C
Asylums were known as a refuge for the mentally ill as well as the poor in the past.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Asylums; page 8
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Mental Health | Cognitive Level:
Comprehension | Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity: Therapeutic Environment
5. ANS: A
Dr. Peplau brought together theories from psychiatry and merged them with theories for nursing
and communication.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Hildegard Peplau; page 6-7
KEY: Integrated Processes: Communication and Documentation | Content Area: Nursing Trends |
Cognitive Level: Knowledge | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care
COMPLETION
6. ANS:
1955
Phenothiazine is a group of psychotropics that have a calming effect on patients with psychotic
through processes.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Breakthroughs; page 9
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Mental Health Pharmacology | Cognitive
Level: Knowledge | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies:
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Expected Actions/Outcomes
7. ANS:
Effie Jane Taylor
In 1913 the first psychiatric program for nurses was established. Ms. Taylor also believed in
patient-centered care.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Effie Jane Taylor; page 6
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning
8. ANS:
Linda Richards
Linda Richards wanted to upgrade the nursing education field and the Boston city hospital
training school for nurses to teach the specialty of caring for the mentally ill.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Linda Richards; page 5
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Nursing Trends | Cognitive Level:
Knowledge | Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity: Mental Health Concepts
9. ANS:
phenothiazines
This medication controlled psychotic symptoms and led to reductions in the population in mental
health institutions.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Breakthroughs; page 9
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Mental Health: Pharmacology | Cognitive
Level: Knowledge | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
10. ANS:
1946
Money was provided by this legislation for research and training for the improvement of care for
patients with mental health issues.
PTS: 1 REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; The Laws; page 12
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Mental Health: Treatment | Cognitive
Level: Knowledge | Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity: Mental Health Concepts
11. ANS:
ANA
The American Nurses Association (ANA) developed the certification criteria for psychiatric
nurses. The ANA has developed standards for professional nursing.
PTS: 1
REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Nursing Organizations and Recommendations; page
9
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Nursing Trends | Cognitive Level:
Comprehension | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care
12. ANS:
standardization
The ANA has developed standards for a number of different specialties.
PTS: 1
REF: Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing; Nursing Organizations and Recommendations; page
9
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Nursing Trends | Cognitive Level:
Knowledge | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Management: Management of care: establishing
priorities
