Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health
Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
Exam Questions With Accurate
Solutions Already Passed
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 - CORRECT ANSWER-C) Clinics
supplemented by general hospital units
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
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 - CORRECT ANSWER-B) Florence
Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
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. - CORRECT
ANSWER-A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and
acceptable.
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.
B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized patients got
treatment at
community mental health centers.
Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
Exam Questions With Accurate
Solutions Already Passed
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 - CORRECT ANSWER-C) Clinics
supplemented by general hospital units
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
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 - CORRECT ANSWER-B) Florence
Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
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. - CORRECT
ANSWER-A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and
acceptable.
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.
B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized patients got
treatment at
community mental health centers.
