Test Bank for Psychiatric
Nursing: Contemporary
Practice 5th Edition, Mary
Ann Boyd, All Chapters
Complete With Exam
Questions & Answers
,Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice, 5th
Edition
Test Bank by Mary Ann Boyd
Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychiatric-Mental Health
Nursing
(Questions 1-50)
1. A group of nursing students are reviewing the recommendations of the final report of
the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health (1961). The students demonstrate
understanding of this historic report when they identify that it 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
Answer: C
Rationale: The 1961 Joint Commission report was a landmark document that
recommended a shift away from large, isolated state mental hospitals toward
community-based care. Its primary recommendation was for the development of
community mental health clinics that were supplemented by general hospital units. This
,report laid the groundwork for the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963.
Options A and B represent the older model of institutionalization, while option D is not
a primary recommendation of this report.
Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity
Cognitive Level: Understand
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association's Statement on Psychiatric
Nursing Practice (1967). The nurse understands that this historic document officially
sanctioned the involvement of psychiatric-mental health nurses in the provision of
holistic nursing care. Which individual's work is most strongly linked to the holistic
approach emphasized in this statement?
A) Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
C) Hildegard Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
D) Clifford Beers' A Mind That Found Itself
Answer: C
Rationale: Hildegard Peplau's "Interpersonal Relations in Nursing" (1952) laid the
foundational framework for psychiatric-mental health nursing as a distinct specialty.
Peplau was the first nurse to articulate the concept of the therapeutic nurse-patient
relationship and the nurse's role in promoting mental health through interpersonal
processes. Her work revolutionized psychiatric nursing from a custodial role to a
therapeutic one. While Nightingale (B) focused on environmental factors and Beers (D)
was a mental health advocate, neither developed the nursing-specific, holistic
framework that Peplau did. Freud (A) was a psychiatrist, not a nurse.
, Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity
Cognitive Level: Analyze
Integrated Process: Nursing Process: Evaluation
3. A nursing instructor is explaining how World War II influenced the development of
modern mental health care. The instructor correctly tells the class that which of the
following was a direct result of this war?
A) The biologic understanding of mental illness became almost fully developed.
B) Deinstitutionalization occurred in response to returning veterans.
C) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable.
D) Mental illnesses became clearly categorized as psychoses or neuroses.
Answer: C
Rationale: During and after World War II, thousands of returning veterans were
diagnosed with "shell shock" (now known as PTSD). This widespread condition brought
mental health into the public consciousness, helping to destigmatize mental illness and
making it seem more commonplace and acceptable. The National Mental Health Act of
1946 (which established the NIMH) was also a direct result. Options A, B, and D are
inaccurate concerning the timeline of these events.
Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity
Cognitive Level: Understand
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Nursing: Contemporary
Practice 5th Edition, Mary
Ann Boyd, All Chapters
Complete With Exam
Questions & Answers
,Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice, 5th
Edition
Test Bank by Mary Ann Boyd
Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychiatric-Mental Health
Nursing
(Questions 1-50)
1. A group of nursing students are reviewing the recommendations of the final report of
the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health (1961). The students demonstrate
understanding of this historic report when they identify that it 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
Answer: C
Rationale: The 1961 Joint Commission report was a landmark document that
recommended a shift away from large, isolated state mental hospitals toward
community-based care. Its primary recommendation was for the development of
community mental health clinics that were supplemented by general hospital units. This
,report laid the groundwork for the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963.
Options A and B represent the older model of institutionalization, while option D is not
a primary recommendation of this report.
Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity
Cognitive Level: Understand
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association's Statement on Psychiatric
Nursing Practice (1967). The nurse understands that this historic document officially
sanctioned the involvement of psychiatric-mental health nurses in the provision of
holistic nursing care. Which individual's work is most strongly linked to the holistic
approach emphasized in this statement?
A) Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
C) Hildegard Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
D) Clifford Beers' A Mind That Found Itself
Answer: C
Rationale: Hildegard Peplau's "Interpersonal Relations in Nursing" (1952) laid the
foundational framework for psychiatric-mental health nursing as a distinct specialty.
Peplau was the first nurse to articulate the concept of the therapeutic nurse-patient
relationship and the nurse's role in promoting mental health through interpersonal
processes. Her work revolutionized psychiatric nursing from a custodial role to a
therapeutic one. While Nightingale (B) focused on environmental factors and Beers (D)
was a mental health advocate, neither developed the nursing-specific, holistic
framework that Peplau did. Freud (A) was a psychiatrist, not a nurse.
, Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity
Cognitive Level: Analyze
Integrated Process: Nursing Process: Evaluation
3. A nursing instructor is explaining how World War II influenced the development of
modern mental health care. The instructor correctly tells the class that which of the
following was a direct result of this war?
A) The biologic understanding of mental illness became almost fully developed.
B) Deinstitutionalization occurred in response to returning veterans.
C) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable.
D) Mental illnesses became clearly categorized as psychoses or neuroses.
Answer: C
Rationale: During and after World War II, thousands of returning veterans were
diagnosed with "shell shock" (now known as PTSD). This widespread condition brought
mental health into the public consciousness, helping to destigmatize mental illness and
making it seem more commonplace and acceptable. The National Mental Health Act of
1946 (which established the NIMH) was also a direct result. Options A, B, and D are
inaccurate concerning the timeline of these events.
Client Need: Psychosocial Integrity
Cognitive Level: Understand
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
