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Test Bank For
Psychiatric Nursing Contemporary Practice. 7th Edition
By Mary Ann Boyd; Rebecca Luebbert
All Chapters Covered|| 100% Verified Answers|| Updated Edition|| 2025|| ISBN-13 978-1975161187
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Table of
Contents
Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice 2
Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Disorders 6
Chapter 03: Cultural and Spiritual Issues Related to Mental Health Care 10
Chapter 04: Patient Rights and Legal Issues 14
Chapter 05: Mental Health Care in the Community 18
Chapter 06: Ethics, Standards, and Nursing Frameworks 21
Chapter 07: Psychosocial Theoretic Basis of Psychiatric Nursing 25
Chapter 08: Biologic Foundations of Psychiatric Nursing 29
Chapter 09: Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship 33
Chapter 10: The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Process 37
Chapter 11: Psychopharmacology, Dietary Supplements, and Biologic Interventions 41
Chapter 12: Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing 46
Chapter 13: Group Interventions 50
Chapter 14: Family Assessment and Interventions 54
Chapter 15: Mental Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents 58
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Chapter 16: Mental Health Promotion for Young and Middle-Aged Adults 61
Chapter 17: Mental Health Promotion for Older Adults 64
Chapter 18: Stress and Mental Health LE 68
Chapter 19: Management of Anger, Aggression, and Violence 72
Chapter 20: Crisis, Loss, Grief, Response, Bereavement, and Disaster Management 76
Chapter 21: Suicide Prevention: Screening, Assessment, and Intervention 80
Chapter 22: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: Nursing Care of Persons with Thought
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Disorders 84
Chapter 23: Depression: Management of Depressive Moods and Suicidal Behavior 92
Chapter 24: Bipolar Disorders: Management of Mood Lability 96
Chapter 25: Anxiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety, Phobia, and Panic 99
Chapter 26: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders 103
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Chapter 27: Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders 105
Chapter 28: Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder: Management of Emotional
Dysregulation and Self-Harm 106
Chapter 29: Antisocial Personality and Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders
109
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Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
1. 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
2. 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
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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
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approach?
A) Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing
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C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers’ A Mind That Found Itself
E) Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
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3. 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 biologic 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.
4. 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.
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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 nurses was established in response to the publication of
psychiatric nursing specialty journals.
5. 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?
A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
B) The use of self-care to enhance the immune system was taught by Dorothea Dix.
C) The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of deinstitutionalization.
D) Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of therapeutic communication.
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When reviewing the evolution of mental health and illness care, which event is associated with
mental disorders beginning to be viewed as illnesses requiring treatment?
A) Establishment of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia
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B) Quaker establishment of asylums
C) Creation of the state hospital system
D) Freud’s views on the causes of mental illnesses
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7. A psychiatric mental health nurse is working on a committee that is developing programs that
integrate the objectives for mental health and mental disorders as identified in Healthy People 2020.
Which type of program would be least appropriate?
A) Single substance abuse treatment programs
B) Depression screening programs for primary care providers
C) Mental health programs for the homeless population
D) Employment programs for those with serious mental illness
8. A nursing instructor is describing the concept of evidence-based practice in psychiatric mental
health nursing. Which of the following would the instructor include as being important? Select all that
apply.
A) Research findings
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Test Bank For
Psychiatric Nursing Contemporary Practice. 7th Edition
By Mary Ann Boyd; Rebecca Luebbert
All Chapters Covered|| 100% Verified Answers|| Updated Edition|| 2025|| ISBN-13 978-1975161187
C
LE
ST
BE
1
,BESTLEC
1
Table of
Contents
Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice 2
Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Disorders 6
Chapter 03: Cultural and Spiritual Issues Related to Mental Health Care 10
Chapter 04: Patient Rights and Legal Issues 14
Chapter 05: Mental Health Care in the Community 18
Chapter 06: Ethics, Standards, and Nursing Frameworks 21
Chapter 07: Psychosocial Theoretic Basis of Psychiatric Nursing 25
Chapter 08: Biologic Foundations of Psychiatric Nursing 29
Chapter 09: Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship 33
Chapter 10: The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Process 37
Chapter 11: Psychopharmacology, Dietary Supplements, and Biologic Interventions 41
Chapter 12: Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing 46
Chapter 13: Group Interventions 50
Chapter 14: Family Assessment and Interventions 54
Chapter 15: Mental Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents 58
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Chapter 16: Mental Health Promotion for Young and Middle-Aged Adults 61
Chapter 17: Mental Health Promotion for Older Adults 64
Chapter 18: Stress and Mental Health LE 68
Chapter 19: Management of Anger, Aggression, and Violence 72
Chapter 20: Crisis, Loss, Grief, Response, Bereavement, and Disaster Management 76
Chapter 21: Suicide Prevention: Screening, Assessment, and Intervention 80
Chapter 22: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: Nursing Care of Persons with Thought
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Disorders 84
Chapter 23: Depression: Management of Depressive Moods and Suicidal Behavior 92
Chapter 24: Bipolar Disorders: Management of Mood Lability 96
Chapter 25: Anxiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety, Phobia, and Panic 99
Chapter 26: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders 103
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Chapter 27: Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders 105
Chapter 28: Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder: Management of Emotional
Dysregulation and Self-Harm 106
Chapter 29: Antisocial Personality and Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders
109
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Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
1. 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
2. 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
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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
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approach?
A) Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing
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C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers’ A Mind That Found Itself
E) Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
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3. 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 biologic 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.
4. 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.
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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 nurses was established in response to the publication of
psychiatric nursing specialty journals.
5. 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?
A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
B) The use of self-care to enhance the immune system was taught by Dorothea Dix.
C) The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of deinstitutionalization.
D) Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of therapeutic communication.
C
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When reviewing the evolution of mental health and illness care, which event is associated with
mental disorders beginning to be viewed as illnesses requiring treatment?
A) Establishment of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia
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B) Quaker establishment of asylums
C) Creation of the state hospital system
D) Freud’s views on the causes of mental illnesses
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7. A psychiatric mental health nurse is working on a committee that is developing programs that
integrate the objectives for mental health and mental disorders as identified in Healthy People 2020.
Which type of program would be least appropriate?
A) Single substance abuse treatment programs
B) Depression screening programs for primary care providers
C) Mental health programs for the homeless population
D) Employment programs for those with serious mental illness
8. A nursing instructor is describing the concept of evidence-based practice in psychiatric mental
health nursing. Which of the following would the instructor include as being important? Select all that
apply.
A) Research findings
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