Psychiatric–Mental Health Nursing – OpenStax,
Nursing Program– Complete Practice Questions with
Answers and Exam-Focused Review Material
Introduction:
This document provides a comprehensive collection of
psychiatric–mental health nursing practice questions with
correct answers, fully aligned with OpenStax Psychiatric–
Mental Health Nursing content. It covers core topics such as
therapeutic communication, ethics and legal considerations,
recovery models, psychopharmacology, mental health
disorders, nursing theories, trauma-informed care, and clinical
judgment. The material is well suited for NCLEX-style exam
preparation, course exams, and reinforcing key PMH nursing
concepts across multiple chapters.
Exam Questions and Answers:
What is a nursing problem identification?
a. the medical diagnosis
b. clinical judgment about an individual, family, or
community's response to an actual or potential health problem
or life process
c. the result of medical signs and symptoms after diagnostic
testing is done
,d. a nonclinical judgment ---Correct Answer---B
What assessment technique do health-care providers utilize to
determine the client's current mental status?
a. physical assessment
b. evaluation of family support
c. expression of current goals
d. mental status exam ---Correct Answer---D
What does an assessment of the client's affect include?
a. how the client describes their mood in the past
b. how the client describes their current mood
c. the emotional expressions observed by the nurse
d. what the client reports they are thinking ---Correct Answer-
--C
How does the PMH RN prioritize a client's health problem?
a. using the nurse's beliefs
b. focusing first on safety
c. only considering what the client wants it to be
d. following the ICD-10 system ---Correct Answer---B
,What is an ongoing step in the nursing process in which
subjective and objective data is obtained about the client?
a. assessment
b. intervention
c. implementation
d. evaluation ---Correct Answer---D
In the nineteenth century, new ideas for treatment of the
mentally ill brought the advent of asylums, which were defined
in what way?
a. free of charge to the public
b. institutions offering shelter
c. institutions offering vocational training
d. focused on religious conversion ---Correct Answer---B
What is the responsibility of the professional nurse as milieu
manager?
a. They are in charge of the therapeutic environment.
b. They delegate only to LVN/LPNs.
c. They administer all medications.
, d. They remain in the nurses' station. ---Correct Answer---A
When should a nurse use self-disclosure while maintaining
professional boundaries in the therapeutic relationship?
a. not at all
b. liberally throughout the conversation
c. minimally
d. with the client's permission ---Correct Answer---C
Nurse Jon is caring for a client with severe anxiety. Their
anxiety has recently increased so much that the client is
unable to go to work. Nurse Jon realizes that according to the
mental health to mental illness continuum, this client is in the
category of:
a) emotional problems or concerns
b) well-being
c) mental illness
d) between well-being and emotional problems ---Correct
Answer---C)
What is the scope of psychiatric-mental health nursing
practice?
Nursing Program– Complete Practice Questions with
Answers and Exam-Focused Review Material
Introduction:
This document provides a comprehensive collection of
psychiatric–mental health nursing practice questions with
correct answers, fully aligned with OpenStax Psychiatric–
Mental Health Nursing content. It covers core topics such as
therapeutic communication, ethics and legal considerations,
recovery models, psychopharmacology, mental health
disorders, nursing theories, trauma-informed care, and clinical
judgment. The material is well suited for NCLEX-style exam
preparation, course exams, and reinforcing key PMH nursing
concepts across multiple chapters.
Exam Questions and Answers:
What is a nursing problem identification?
a. the medical diagnosis
b. clinical judgment about an individual, family, or
community's response to an actual or potential health problem
or life process
c. the result of medical signs and symptoms after diagnostic
testing is done
,d. a nonclinical judgment ---Correct Answer---B
What assessment technique do health-care providers utilize to
determine the client's current mental status?
a. physical assessment
b. evaluation of family support
c. expression of current goals
d. mental status exam ---Correct Answer---D
What does an assessment of the client's affect include?
a. how the client describes their mood in the past
b. how the client describes their current mood
c. the emotional expressions observed by the nurse
d. what the client reports they are thinking ---Correct Answer-
--C
How does the PMH RN prioritize a client's health problem?
a. using the nurse's beliefs
b. focusing first on safety
c. only considering what the client wants it to be
d. following the ICD-10 system ---Correct Answer---B
,What is an ongoing step in the nursing process in which
subjective and objective data is obtained about the client?
a. assessment
b. intervention
c. implementation
d. evaluation ---Correct Answer---D
In the nineteenth century, new ideas for treatment of the
mentally ill brought the advent of asylums, which were defined
in what way?
a. free of charge to the public
b. institutions offering shelter
c. institutions offering vocational training
d. focused on religious conversion ---Correct Answer---B
What is the responsibility of the professional nurse as milieu
manager?
a. They are in charge of the therapeutic environment.
b. They delegate only to LVN/LPNs.
c. They administer all medications.
, d. They remain in the nurses' station. ---Correct Answer---A
When should a nurse use self-disclosure while maintaining
professional boundaries in the therapeutic relationship?
a. not at all
b. liberally throughout the conversation
c. minimally
d. with the client's permission ---Correct Answer---C
Nurse Jon is caring for a client with severe anxiety. Their
anxiety has recently increased so much that the client is
unable to go to work. Nurse Jon realizes that according to the
mental health to mental illness continuum, this client is in the
category of:
a) emotional problems or concerns
b) well-being
c) mental illness
d) between well-being and emotional problems ---Correct
Answer---C)
What is the scope of psychiatric-mental health nursing
practice?
