PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS 2026/2027
(ACTUAL EXAM) WITH CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS || ALREADY GRADED
A+ RECENT VERSION
THERE are many areas of practice in psychiatric mental health nursing. One of
those is advanced-level practice. Which of the following is considered an
advanced-level function?
A) Case management
B) Counseling
C) Evaluation
D) Health teaching - ANSWER Ans: C
Feedback:
Advanced-level functions are psychotherapy, prescriptive authority, consultation
and liaison, evaluation, and program development and management. Case
management, counseling, and health teaching are basic-level functions in the
practice area of psychiatric mental health nursing.
Nursing education has become broad in practice settings. The addition of
Psychiatric nursing became a requirement in nursing education in 1950 by whom?
- ANSWER C) National League of Nursing
, Psychiatric nursing became a requirement in nursing education in which year?
A) 1930
B) 1940
C) 1950
D) 1960 - ANSWER Ans: C
Feedback:
It was not until 1950 that the National League for Nursing, which accredits nursing
programs, required schools to include an experience in psychiatric nursing.
Scale for measuring depression - ANSWER SIGECAPS
Scale for measuring bipolar - ANSWER DIGFAST
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 - ANSWER C) Clinics supplemented
by general hospital units
, 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 - ANSWER B) Florence
Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
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 biological 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. -
ANSWER A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and
acceptable.
A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatric mental
health nursing and its
place within nursing history. Which of the following would be most appropriate to
include?
A) Certification for the psychiatric mental health nursing specialty was first
emphasized by Mary
Adelaide Nutting.
B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized patients got
treatment at
community mental health centers.
C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male
students and the first
training school for psychiatric nursing.
D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nursing was established in response to
the publication of
psychiatric nursing specialty journals. - ANSWER C) There is a historical link
between the first nursing program to admit male students and the first
training school for psychiatric nursing.
Two nursing students are discussing psychiatric mental health nursing and the
role it has played in
nursing's overall history. Which statement is most accurate?
PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS 2026/2027
(ACTUAL EXAM) WITH CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS || ALREADY GRADED
A+ RECENT VERSION
THERE are many areas of practice in psychiatric mental health nursing. One of
those is advanced-level practice. Which of the following is considered an
advanced-level function?
A) Case management
B) Counseling
C) Evaluation
D) Health teaching - ANSWER Ans: C
Feedback:
Advanced-level functions are psychotherapy, prescriptive authority, consultation
and liaison, evaluation, and program development and management. Case
management, counseling, and health teaching are basic-level functions in the
practice area of psychiatric mental health nursing.
Nursing education has become broad in practice settings. The addition of
Psychiatric nursing became a requirement in nursing education in 1950 by whom?
- ANSWER C) National League of Nursing
, Psychiatric nursing became a requirement in nursing education in which year?
A) 1930
B) 1940
C) 1950
D) 1960 - ANSWER Ans: C
Feedback:
It was not until 1950 that the National League for Nursing, which accredits nursing
programs, required schools to include an experience in psychiatric nursing.
Scale for measuring depression - ANSWER SIGECAPS
Scale for measuring bipolar - ANSWER DIGFAST
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 - ANSWER C) Clinics supplemented
by general hospital units
, 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 - ANSWER B) Florence
Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
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 biological 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. -
ANSWER A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and
acceptable.
A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatric mental
health nursing and its
place within nursing history. Which of the following would be most appropriate to
include?
A) Certification for the psychiatric mental health nursing specialty was first
emphasized by Mary
Adelaide Nutting.
B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized patients got
treatment at
community mental health centers.
C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male
students and the first
training school for psychiatric nursing.
D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nursing was established in response to
the publication of
psychiatric nursing specialty journals. - ANSWER C) There is a historical link
between the first nursing program to admit male students and the first
training school for psychiatric nursing.
Two nursing students are discussing psychiatric mental health nursing and the
role it has played in
nursing's overall history. Which statement is most accurate?
