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. 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?
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.
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? .
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.
