TEST BANK FOR
NEEB’S Mental Health Nursing 5th Edition by Gorman Robynn
Chapter 1-22 Answers are at the End of Each Chapter
.________________________________________2. Law Exams2.1. Overview of
Law EducationLaw education provides students with the knowledge of legal principles, case
law, legal frameworks, and ethical issues. It prepares students for legal practice, with
specializations
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Table of Contents 8
16
Chapter 01: History of Mental Health Nursing 25
Chapter 02: Basics of Communications 38
Chapter 03: Ethics and Law 43
Chapter 04: Developmental Psychology Throughout the Life Span 55
Chapter 05: Sociocultural Influences on Mental Health 67
Chapter 06: Nursing Process in Mental Health 84
Chapter 07: Coping and Defense Mechanisms 89
Chapter 08: Mental Health Treatments 100
Chapter 09: Complementary and Alternative Treatment Modalities 114
Chapter 10: Anxiety, Anxiety-Related, and Somatic Symptom Disorders 122
Chapter 11: Depressive Disorders 130
Chapter 12: Bipolar Disorders 139
Chapter 13: Suicide 160
Chapter 14: Personality Disorders 170
Chapter 15: Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders 182
Chapter 16: Neurocognitive Disorders: Delirium and Dementia 192
Chapter 17: Substance Use and Addictive Disorders 198
Chapter 18: Eating Disorders 201
Chapter 19: Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health Issues 204
Chapter 20: Postpartum Issues in Mental Health
Chapter 21: Aging Population
Chapter 22: Victims of Abuse and Violence
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Chapter 01: 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. Law Exams2.1. Overview of Law EducationLaw education provides students with the knowledge of legal principles, case law,
legal frameworks, and ethical issues. It prepares students for legal practice, with specializations
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? .
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?
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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):
.________________________________________2. Law Exams2.1. Overview of Law EducationLaw education provides students with the knowledge of legal principles, case law, legal frameworks, and ethical issues. It
prepares students for legal practice, with specializations
A. Cost of the facilities.
B. The increased use of phenothiazines.
C. Staff cost.
D. Establishment of Outpatient clinics.
Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing
Answer Section
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. ANS: A
Florence Nightingales commitments to improved outcomes at a military hospital were directly related to
introducing sanitation methods.
PTS: 1
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
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
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
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.
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PTS: 1
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
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Mental Health Pharmacology |
Cognitive Level: Knowledge | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral
Therapies: 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
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
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
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.
.________________________________________2. Law Exams2.1. Overview of Law EducationLaw education provides students with the knowledge of legal principles, case law, legal frameworks, and ethical issues. It
prepares students for legal practice, with specializations
PTS: 1
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
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
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Nursing Trends | Cognitive Level: Knowledge
| Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Management: Management of care: establishing priorities
13. ANS:
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale observed that a clean environment improved the health of the soldiers in the
NEEB’S Mental Health Nursing 5th Edition by Gorman Robynn
Chapter 1-22 Answers are at the End of Each Chapter
.________________________________________2. Law Exams2.1. Overview of
Law EducationLaw education provides students with the knowledge of legal principles, case
law, legal frameworks, and ethical issues. It prepares students for legal practice, with
specializations
2
Table of Contents 8
16
Chapter 01: History of Mental Health Nursing 25
Chapter 02: Basics of Communications 38
Chapter 03: Ethics and Law 43
Chapter 04: Developmental Psychology Throughout the Life Span 55
Chapter 05: Sociocultural Influences on Mental Health 67
Chapter 06: Nursing Process in Mental Health 84
Chapter 07: Coping and Defense Mechanisms 89
Chapter 08: Mental Health Treatments 100
Chapter 09: Complementary and Alternative Treatment Modalities 114
Chapter 10: Anxiety, Anxiety-Related, and Somatic Symptom Disorders 122
Chapter 11: Depressive Disorders 130
Chapter 12: Bipolar Disorders 139
Chapter 13: Suicide 160
Chapter 14: Personality Disorders 170
Chapter 15: Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders 182
Chapter 16: Neurocognitive Disorders: Delirium and Dementia 192
Chapter 17: Substance Use and Addictive Disorders 198
Chapter 18: Eating Disorders 201
Chapter 19: Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health Issues 204
Chapter 20: Postpartum Issues in Mental Health
Chapter 21: Aging Population
Chapter 22: Victims of Abuse and Violence
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Chapter 01: 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. Law Exams2.1. Overview of Law EducationLaw education provides students with the knowledge of legal principles, case law,
legal frameworks, and ethical issues. It prepares students for legal practice, with specializations
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? .
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?
, 5
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):
.________________________________________2. Law Exams2.1. Overview of Law EducationLaw education provides students with the knowledge of legal principles, case law, legal frameworks, and ethical issues. It
prepares students for legal practice, with specializations
A. Cost of the facilities.
B. The increased use of phenothiazines.
C. Staff cost.
D. Establishment of Outpatient clinics.
Chapter 1: History of Mental Health Nursing
Answer Section
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. ANS: A
Florence Nightingales commitments to improved outcomes at a military hospital were directly related to
introducing sanitation methods.
PTS: 1
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
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
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
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.
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PTS: 1
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
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Mental Health Pharmacology |
Cognitive Level: Knowledge | Client Need: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral
Therapies: 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
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
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
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.
.________________________________________2. Law Exams2.1. Overview of Law EducationLaw education provides students with the knowledge of legal principles, case law, legal frameworks, and ethical issues. It
prepares students for legal practice, with specializations
PTS: 1
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
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
KEY: Integrated Processes: Teaching/Learning | Content Area: Nursing Trends | Cognitive Level: Knowledge
| Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Management: Management of care: establishing priorities
13. ANS:
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale observed that a clean environment improved the health of the soldiers in the
